What are good tattoo ideas for a teenager?
Honestly, the answer that said “get something real small, maybe a rose” makes me cringe.Sounds like dreadful advice to me.Get something really cliche, picked off the wall of a studio somewhere. Get it so that it’s big enough that you can notice it (otherwise what’s the point) but small enough so that it’s left there, floating, randomly. It’ll look awful.Get whatever you damn well want. That’s the truth of it. If you’re old enough to get a tattoo in your area, then knock yourself out.But, you’ll be living with it FOR LIFE.Why are you even asking what you should get? If there isn’t a design you want, you just want a tattoo, then you’re not emotionally mature enough to be making decisions like that.So, you have a design… You can start with a tattoo in a “less obvious” area.For example, I have a full back piece. It’s pretty big. But much less noticeable than a small tattoo on my face would have been.Consider your working life. What kind of jobs do you want to do? A lot of places won’t hire people with sleeves or visible tattoos for customer facing roles. Luckily I work behind a laptop in a dark corner, so I don’t need customer facing, and if it was ever an issue for an afternoon, I’d wear a shirt to cover them.Consider your personal life. Do people will full body suits find wives/husbands easily? Are you into other heavily tattooed people?Really, just don’t bother unless you’ve carried around a drawing or picture of a design you want for 6 months to a year, and every time you look at it throughout the day for 6 months, you think “yeah I’d love this permanently drawn onto my skin!”.But yeah, most importantly, don’t end up with a small “tramp stamp” of a rose dotted someone in a massive area of your body.
Is getting a face tattoo at 14 a bad idea?
I will say at 14, any tattoo is bad. I want to start by saying I am not a tattoo hater, in fact I have one on my back but I want to warn teens that a) its permament, b) you have to love it when you get it and when you are sixty so choose your tattoos carefully, c) it may effect your ability to find a job. Look at these tattoos, you think employees will hire these guys? Whats more, do you think people will respect them seeing them with these tattoos?Bad, bad tattoos…Also, tattoos fade over time so getting one when you are sixteen may make you fix it up ten years later and then refix it ten years after that, etc.That even looks good, some look way worseNow, 2006 is faded and a year later he tried to fix it and it did not go well…Now, if you really want a tattoo choose a timeless tattoo like these:Then stuff like this:Unless you really love food or…As a teen, these are common but as a person matures, they outgrow these tattoosOr these…Well done but a grown man having disney all over his arm is yeah…Name and face tattoo. Two horror stories. Why?Face and eye tattoo. Sigh…Please remember to choose tattoos well and keep in regard that tattoos stay with you for life. If you want a face tattoo, go for it, but when you are an adult.
Do all Care Bears have a heart tattoo on their butt...?
I have no idea what you are talking about here...what's this obsession of yours with Care Bears? Kinda concerned here, bebe...
If you could tattoo yourself any Chinese idiom or character, what would that be?
I had a friend who had the entire first passage of the Dao De Jing tattooed across his abdomen.Basically this, but the first chapter and less flattering:I wouldn’t want that; I imagine it would only have three purposes:Getting Chinese-literate people to start conversations on philosophy with you in the gym locker room.Getting any person you sleep with to stare, confused, at the side of your body for some extended amount of time.Being able to end any conversation, any time, by saying ‘I have an entire chapter of the Dao De Jing tattoooed on my ribs and stomach.’That last one might be worth it.A couple ones I’ve thought about before are 恭喜 你会读中文 (Congratulations, you can read Chinese), or an adapted idea I stole from someone’s t-shirt, 老外看不懂 (foreigners don’t understand this).In general I dislike the idea of getting some vague single letter, 平 (peace) or 华 (beauty/China), etc. Those phrases have been the banner of some of the most violent, selfish, cowardly persons and armies in world history, as have their foreign equivalents. I might just consider 道, Dao, or 混, Chaos/bum (as in the verb, to bum around). I’m not as much of a fan of 德, ethics, in my current antisocial way of living. Perhaps 道 on one shoulder and 探, search/explore, on the other. I could maybe do a four-character idiom across my back or down my chest, but I’ve yet to find one I connect with. Better to explore than to find.
Do you think every tattoo you get should have meaning? Opinions?
Now before you go answering let me tell you about me and what I feel, I'ma try and make this short but I feel that it is a great thing to have a tattoo that means something to you, as long as it is something that is forever, such as a childs name or a portrait of of a dead family member, not a girl or guys name you think you're gonna marry. For my first tattoo I wanted to get a meaningful tattoo (I'm an eagle scout so my first idea was an eagle tattoo) but further down the road I like to have some small funny insignificant or simple ones in less obvious places of course. I would obviously be more prompt to have a tattoo with more meaning or artistic beauty in a more visible or open area of my body. I also know that tattoos are a form of art and that you don't necessarily enjoy a work of art because it has meaning to you! I would like to hear other peoples opinions :)