I tattooed my leg with a barbecue fork covered with charcoal dust. I pretend it was deliberate to make me sound badass.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow are you focusing on the wrong thing OP. A tattoo is tacky. Staph, Hep B, Hep C are serious medical complications.

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdq3b/how-safe-are-stick-and-poke-tattoos

Seriously OP. This is a great way to get an infection or a disease. I hate tattoos. But I’d pay to have a kid over 18 have one done by a reputable professional before a DYI. Talk to you kid about this. The tattoo she can remove later. The Hepatitis or HIV— not so much.

Of course. But my point is that now they are selling stick-and-poke tattoo kits - "sterile!", "safe!" at Walmart or Ebay or Amazon. Why would kids think twice? And apparently this was a "hey - let's do tattoos while watching a movie" brilliant idea a couple of weekends ago. I just had no idea that these things existed.

Back in the day we did those with needles and india ink! I would talk to her about sharing anything you are sticking into your body-we would always heat the needles red hot and let them cool or soak them in bleach. I would think kids would know that? But we grew up in the height of the AIDS crisis, so I guess best not to assume anything about kids today.

It is a thing as are professional tattoos and MANY teens have them including those against their parents wishes.

Anonymous wrote:Wow are you focusing on the wrong thing OP. A tattoo is tacky. Staph, Hep B, Hep C are serious medical complications.

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdq3b/how-safe-are-stick-and-poke-tattoos

Seriously OP. This is a great way to get an infection or a disease. I hate tattoos. But I’d pay to have a kid over 18 have one done by a reputable professional before a DYI. Talk to you kid about this. The tattoo she can remove later. The Hepatitis or HIV— not so much.

Of course. But my point is that now they are selling stick-and-poke tattoo kits - "sterile!", "safe!" at Walmart or Ebay or Amazon. Why would kids think twice? And apparently this was a "hey - let's do tattoos while watching a movie" brilliant idea a couple of weekends ago. I just had no idea that these things existed.

Wow are you focusing on the wrong thing OP. A tattoo is tacky. Staph, Hep B, Hep C are serious medical complications.

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdq3b/how-safe-are-stick-and-poke-tattoos

Seriously OP. This is a great way to get an infection or a disease. I hate tattoos. But I’d pay to have a kid over 18 have one done by a reputable professional before a DYI. Talk to you kid about this. The tattoo she can remove later. The Hepatitis or HIV— not so much.

Ugh that is awful.

Is this a thing? Do-it-yourself tattoos? DC came back from college with two little rune-style tattoos on the wrists. FFS. I'm not against tattoos per se, but I am against bad ones and against doing something permanent before 25 when your brain finishes rewiring its impulse control. Ugh.