Kiddies with public ink

[UnknownPriestKiller]

There will always be exceptions, in the same way some non-tattooed people might say tattooed people are drop outs, I'm fairly sure we're not haha. Recently I discovered a rant on quite a respected figure in the tattoo community's Myspace. I say rant, it was more like pure venomous hatred. It would seem that some find young people with visible ink, impatient and disrespectful, and they must all just think it's cool to have visible work. I'm 23, My first tattoo was on my shoulder, then my wrists, then I got a full sleeve. Then I moved to my hands, then neck and I also have a large part of my leg tattooed. It took me about two years to get the opportunity to get my hand tattooed by my idol, and then my neck by an artist I greatly admire, a lot of time, effort and thought was put into both of these. Even though I'm somewhat older and do have a fair bit of coverage, I might still be classed as young and "under-tattooed" to have such visible work, and I can't help but think that's kinda crazy! Sure I've seen some 18 year olds with kanji on their necks or poorly executed skulls on their hands, and you can almost tell they rushed into it, wanting everyone to see their new work as clearly as possible, and fine that to me is impatient and maybe even attention seeking. Basically what I'm trying to say is that not everyone who has visible work is disrespectful to the art, some people invest a great deal of time, money and effort into getting that particular location inked with the highest standard work possible. It's kinda funny to find prejudice within a community that tries so hard to divert it away from itself. Thoughts?

[Drullygrark]

Im an appretice tattoo artist, and i dont have any "public skin tattoos" i might get my knuckles done when i graduate to tattoo artist offciale, but i wouldnt do it before then, im twenty one and have the rest of my life to get tattooed so i really dont see any reason to have theese parts in particular done first. when public skin tattoos are the only tattooes they have it screams of look at me. the justification is they arnt doing out of a love of tattoos they are doing it to have a tattoo where people can see it. i get tattoos for me not for any one else. i agree with you benny, you researched your artist knew what you wanted and went an got it where you wanted, it would be dirfferent if you walked into the first studio you passed and just went and got summit on ya hand.