Tattoo ink

Topic of Interest Paper Most elderly clients view personal trainers with tattoos negatively. For clarification, when I refer to elderly, I mean people aged 65 and older. This belief is inspired by the fact that the current generation of elderly people didn’t have as many tattooed individuals as is the case in this day and age. As one of my professors put it, “If you had a tattoo back then, you were cool. [And] It symbolized that you were part of a gang.” In that example, the word gang refers to…

relationship between tattoos and one’s identity and how a tattoo can be a meaningful way to “mark a new era” (Jamison 458). This piece demonstrates how Jamison confidently got her tattoo reading: “I am human: nothing human is alien to me,” but over the course of the story, she realizes what the tattoo really means to her. Many people tell their stories and express their individuality through the permanence of tattoos. The story describes the seemingly long process of getting her tattoo and what…

Tattoos and piercings are becoming a norm in today’s society, and they can be seen on the skin of teachers and Red Cross workers across the nation. Millennials have deemed these modifications as works of art and self-expression, but one Melanie Phillips poses a different point of view. She claims that these self-alterations are forms of self-mutilation, and they serve only to show how corrupt the values of recent generations have become. Her article utilizes extreme criticism of one man’s tattoo…

Tattoos Are Art Imagine being a tattoo artist that put in hours of work into a design and then even more time tattooing that design for someone to say it’s not art? Infuriating right? Ink on your body to most older people is not considered art, but why? This is because they see it as ruining your body for the rest of your life, but who are they to tell you what’s right or wrong for yourself. There are different types of art in several different forms. Tattoos are considered art because they are…

Is a Tattoo Right for You? Style is changing as society changes, something that is becoming more popular is tattoos. Tattoos are becoming more of a common fashion icon not only does it make you stand out from the majority but there can even be a meaningful story told behind the tattoo but not always. When getting a tattoo there should always be some things to consider prior. Tattoos are a great way to express certain things in your life or just simply put something permanent on your body but…

and ink. Tattoos have been around in different forms since approximately 6000 BC. Tattoos have changed and machinery has advanced to everyday use. Tattoos may have use to of been for tribal symbols, being marked as slaves, healing techniques, and painful punishment but now it is something different. Despite its controversy in jobs and "forever affect" tattoos in teenagers are both positive and negative because it's a form of expression and people have their rights to be creative. Tattoos in…

A tattoo is a mark on an individual 's body which is an ingrained design by inserting pigment punctures into the skin. It is an ancient art that is still expressed to this day and is becoming more common. It is a form of self-expression, a reminder of something, or anything the artwork is portrayed as to the canvas. As it is turning more popular in today’s culture, there is an uproar in the profession spectrum. There is a debate as to rather if having tattoos in the workplace is acceptable, or…

Tattoos can be dangerous, a waste of money, possible skin allergy reactions, and job opportunities, etc. Even though tattoos are popular with all ages, hardly anybody thinks about the health risks, policies within a hiring company regarding tattoos and more aftermath consequences. For these reasons Tattoos are just not worth the time, and money. Many employer policies state that employees “cannot have visible tattoos” (Padowski 7). In addition to this, there have been many cases where there…

religious reasons to help show self-expression” (“The history of body modification” 3). Tattoos are body modifications, which are made by inserting ink into the epidermis layer of the skin. “When Christianity began to gain popularity, tattooing was increasingly associated with criminals and were prohibited in Europe by Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor. By the late eighteenth century, tattoos were no longer prohibited and started to become…

“Tattoos and piercings ruin your true beauty! The human body was not made for more holes and protruding metal. Do you even realize or think about how those will look when you’re older? You want to work in that kind of industry? That occupation is nothing but an absolute dead end.” Some pessimists may have this opinion in the matter of their beliefs toward the tattoo industry. In general, it is known the body modification industry is not favorable, but is not illegal and still present evidently.…