Got a young daughter??

[Ah Pook]

A tat by an artist or a scratcher are two very different things. Had a customer who had a great "Sailor Jerry" style ship on her chest. Would like to have studied it closer but...

[Jer]

never understood the stigma towards ink.

For purpose of this thread I don't think it's stigma so much as distraction. For print work and such most marketing firms don't want some random tattoo drawing attention away from what they want the focus to be.... usually the product or whatever they want to showcase the product. I don't think that there is much of a stigma with tattoos these days although sometimes you'll still see it from time to time but nothing like it once was.

[TheGrey]

Moses have that goofy mullet ,when you were there?

He certainly did! 1988; prime mullet years.

[rondog]

Jim, you know an artist called Jumbo out of Nyack, NY? He did my first piece. Had a partner named Howard Baum, I think it was.

[Great-Kazoo]

Jim, you know an artist called Jumbo out of Nyack, NY? He did my first piece. Had a partner named Howard Baum, I think it was.

Maybe by face. The few I knew, from yup state, were of a suspicious, nature. You know those MC riding, cut off vest wearing element.

[Aloha_Shooter]

never understood the stigma towards ink.

In my case, it's not stigma, I just view it as Andy Warhol "touching up" a da Vinci or Titian. I won't pass judgment on a girl or guy for having tats but that doesn't mean I can't recognize a lot of them are already ugly now and many many more will be even uglier in 20-30 years time nor does it mean I think potential employers are wrong for discriminating against something that can cost them business (if it really will cost them business ... many times it's just an uninformed guess).

[TFOGGER]

One of my former employers put it succinctly: NOT having a tattoo(piercing, whatever) will offend nobody. This was in a retail environment, where the salespeople already had to overcome the disadvantage of their youth relative to the client base by demonstrating a high level of product knowledge. In the modelling/advertising world I could see this as being much the same; you really don't want to narrow your opportunities with a tattoo or piercing that potential buyers for your image might find objectionable. We are supposed to be an "evolved" society where we don't form preconceived notions based on a person's outside appearance, but that is really just PC bullshit. Every single one of us makes these kinds of judgments every day, whether it's concerning the hoodie-wearing urban yute, the dress shirt wearing accountant looking guy, or the yoga pant wearing suburban soccer mom.

[cofi]

Tit tattoos seem to becoming more and more popular.