Analysis: Should Teens Be Allowed To Get Tattoos

Daniel DeJesus Mrs. Holohan
Freshman Foundation
4 December 2014
Should teens be allowed to get Tattoos?

There are many risks in the world. But a risk that is overlooked are Tattoos. Tattoos have been put in the rank of popularity in the teenage world. But not many teens know the consequences and risks that they may have. Now teens are starting to have tattoos. Some would say “It’s in style”. But that style can ruin their health, with life-threatening blood diseases like HIV, Hepatitis or a liver disease. Teens should not be allowed to get tattoos, Because of its powerful effects it would have on a persons life and health.

First and foremost, teens should not be allowed to get tattoos.

This type of action should be illegal, because it will affect the teens health. Many tattoo customers who have payed the tattoo artist to give them a tattoo have said “It’s feels like a Knife slicing off the top layer of your skin”. According to the article in title Making your Mark, ”1,000 people get a life-threatening blood disease from a tattoo”. This occurs when tattoo artists marks their customer, and not even clean their needle before marking their next customer. Many adults that have made the decision to get a tattoo at their teenage years, but now at their adult age they say that “it was a stupid decision”. As said by Fawana Nelson as she had paid a tattoo artist to mark her skin at the age of 17. Now she saids "I definitely wish I hadn't done it," now as a 23-year-old senior at the University of California San Diego. "I am different now. I wish they were

gone."
In addition to prevent teens to get any type of life-threatening blood disease, teens getting tattoos should be illegal. This will help teens be safe from any life threatening blood disease. Tattooist Denise de la Cerda of Brooklyn, New York told Anne Lederberg that the tattoo gun is so dangerous “That it can cause bad scarring or excessive bleeding”. Many teens don’t know this, Many just want a tattoo just to look cool to society. But not knowing the consequences that it can come with a simple tattoo. It is proven that if a needle is not clean before marking someone with it, there is a possibility that they could get Hepatitis, a liver disease or HIV. “The Hiv virus that causes AIDS-can be transferred from an infected person into the client's bloodstream.” Alos many don’t know that when a tattoo is marked on skin, the ink is injected inside of the skin.

Finally, to all teens that are thinking of getting a tattoo(s). Ask before you do, think that it will be something that is permanent. Meaning it will be on your body for the rest of your life. Yes, it is possible to remove. But to remove it, it’s really expensive. The estimate to remove a tattoo is to “$2,000 to $3,000”. Also you would have to go to Laser therapy, where you have a laser blasting at the tattoo ink (the ink injected in your skin) but yet sparing the skin. This Laser blasts light energy that is then converted to heat. Which sizzles at 572 (degrees) F, breaking the tattoo pigment clumps in tiny particles.

In conclusion, I say that teens should not be allowed to get tattoos. Because of it’s consequences to their health. I personally would not get a tattoo. After reading testimonies of adults that now regret of ever getting tattoos. I also wouldn't want a Life-threatening blood disease. Not only would it ruin my health but my family too. So teens take the advice of the adults who are now suffering now of the consequences of the tattoos they have.