Everybody’s talking ’bout …. tattoos!
It all started when I read a post recently about the subject on another blog.
This weekend just gone, President Obama told NBC that he doesn’t want his daughters to get tattoos. In fact, he has told his kids that if they do, he and his wife will get the exact same one in the same place! I wonder if his strategy to deter them will work?!
I had an interesting conversation with my mother-in-law about tattoos on our last visit, and that’s when I realised how much thoughts and opinions about tattoos have changed over the years.
Baby Boomers
My M-I-L said that to her generation, you avoided anybody with a tattoo – because people got them when they were in jail. In her eyes, tattoo = criminal.
Generation X
I’m 40 something, and while I’m not fussed on tattoos and don’t have any, hey, each to their own. Plenty of people in my age bracket wear their ink proudly – others get them as part of their mid-life crisis!
Generation Y
To my kids, tattoos are cool! In fact Mr Almost 19 already has one on his wrist. Miss 16 went with him when he had it done, and after seeing how painful it was, she says it has put her off for life (I hope!)
According to one TV show I watched, about a third of young people in the UK now have at least one tattoo. It seems they’re no longer a sign of rebellion; tattoos have gone mainstream!
The Generations to Come
Will the pendulum swing back the other way, in years to come? Will it become so “normal” that people won’t bother anymore?
So – do you tattoo?!