Your parents and tattoos.

when i asked to my parents 4 a tattoo as present for my birthday thay couldn't refuse because my dad has a tattoo and my mother wanted to try to do one so... i just did it =)
i draw by myself a butterfly and now i have a small cute tattoo=)

 

That's my mom and dad all day. My dad especially since his stroke and heart attack.

Yeah I just did it. I had a car and my license, he started fussin' and I dipped. Came back and he'd gotten it out of his system.

 

i didn't tell my parents i was gonna get tattooed. i just went and did it.
i figured... welll... its MY body. i can decorate it all i want. lol.

so i did...

i showed them a while later after it healed.. my dad and my aunt weren't to pleased.. they shook their head and went.. "you're gonna regret that..".

but my mom on the other hand was like... "oh thats nice! i should get one too." lol.

 

one day i was like "mom, by the time im 25, im going to be HEAVILY tattooed..oh yeah and im gunna be a body piercer"
she was like "alright, cool, if that's what you wanna do. i expect a free nose piercing."
haha my mom loves all my tattoos.
she hasn't seen my latest one, shes excited to see it.
my dad dosnt really like the idea of me getting tattoos or piercings...you shulda seen his face when i came home with my s4eptum pierced (he also cringed when imoved in \to an apartment thats a 10 minutes walk from a tattoo shop about a month ago ahahahha he told me not to spend all my money on em ;p) my parents are really supportive of me and they know it makes me happy and they see the beauty in them. so its all goood )

 

My parents are not fond of tattoos, but they respect and support my decisions since I am an adult. That's all you can really hope for.

 

i told them i am getting a tattoo and they said cool.

 

i'm 16 and i just got mine yesterday. didn't tell the folks. saw my mum in town and was like "yo! mum! got something to tell you!" her immediate reaction being " you crashed my car?!" no...no... of course not "look at this!" ... she didn't believe it was real! ahaha but then she was like. um... wtf... how much...who did it and then smiled and went on as if nothing had happend. my dad rang me later that night "is it cool???, what's it of??"... way better reaction than i was expectin. but... these are my parents who... are pretty flippin leniant.


so i would def tell them. i felt alot better.

 

i am 19 and my dad is 80 years old, no joke. he is conservative to the core.

i had most of my back covered with tattoos before he finally saw them. he was pissed, but got over it quick. the thing about tattoos, theyre permanent. its not like he will stop loving you

 

my dads 81, i win!

 

no shit is he really?

 

yeah hes in good shape for his age too, hes always creating work for himself and doing something.

 

same with my dad, he still works full time! i hope i have inherited his resiliance.

 

I was over 18 so I just went and did it. They couldn't say a word.

 

I don't plan on ever showing my mom my tattoos (when I get them) becuase she's too old school and relates getting tattoos to being a druggie (?)

 

i didnt tell mine. my mom saw a picture and thats how she found out...she was pretty pissed but shes used to me doing shit like that.

just make it mean something.

 

well my parents would be super pissed if i got a tattoo. but i'm still going to go get one. the plan is this wednesday and i'm getting it on my lower back so i doubt they'll ever see it. i'm not going to tell them, i'm just going to try to keep it hidden and if they find out, then i will deal with it at that time.

 

My mom wants me to get a tattoo more than I want to get a tattoo.
And I am 15.

 

What everyone needs to realize is that as parents we are concerned about our kids choices. We tend to see bigger pictures than our kids. Life experience tells us things our kids just do not know. I have 6 tattoo's. I was 35 when I got my first one. At 18 or 19, you may be totally convinced that this tattoo will be perfect all of your life, but you just do not know who you will be in 20 years. 30 years. Yes it is who you are now, but you just cannot hide a tattoo that you regret in 10 years. Parents are concerned about this. We know how people change. We all did. We did not start out this way. We were all kids. Some wanting to be crazier than others, but not the mostly responsible people we become with time.
Understand your parents and be honest with them. We do appriciate it. It is your body and we will not agree with alot of your decisions, but we do love our kids.

 

Wow it sounds like a lot of people in here either older, and therefore have more old-school parents, or have really strict parents. My dad wouldn't let me get a tattoo or any type of body modification until I was 18, but by that time I had been long out of his house. I think my mom would've taken me to get one had she been around when I was a teenager. Maybe it's better that she wasn't in this case, because I'm pretty sure that anything I would've gotten back then would not be quite as appealing to me now. I'm sure it wouldn't be something I hate, but I'm only twenty, I would have plenty of time to grow to despise it. All besides the point though, because I still don't have a tattoo at 20, not for lack of desire, but for lack of certainty. I just can't decide on something I want to have on me for the rest of my life. Call me a pansy, but it's just too much pressure to choose something. I'm thinking about getting something very similar to my signature though. These days, I think my mom would want to get matching tattoos...
:cheers2:

 

My mum payed for my first tattoo and piercing, but my parents arent the old school type and are still pretty young so i guess its the generation gap that makes parents shitty about the tattoos and such.