Think before getting the permanent ink
Laura Howell
Issue date: 12/1/08 Section: News
Tattoos have often been viewed as one way for people to express themselves. People get tattoos for many different reasons. Some want to remember a specific event or person, others want to permanently display their love for something, and still others get them on a whim.
According to vanishingtattoo.com, tattoos were originally created to beautify, shock or humiliate and they could proclaim valor, religious belief, group solidarity or personal independence.
Now, tattoos are now part of everyday society and even part of television with shows like "Miami Ink" and "LA Ink." According to vanishingtattoo.com, over 60 percent of all North Americans aged 18 to 30 years old have at least one tattoo.
Hospitals.unm.edu states that one out of every five college students reports having at least one tattoo.
Chris Corbin, senior, has two tattoos, one on his back of a
Welsh dragon, and one on his inner left arm of Lamba Chi's open motto.
"I got the first one on my back partially because I was finally legal, but I also had wanted to get one for about two or three years before hand," Corbin said. "The second one was a little impetuous, and I probably should have put a little more thought into getting it."
Junior Jessica Reichert has five tattoos. She said that explaining the allure of tattoos to someone who does not have any is hard.
"I really have control over my body when I subject myself to something like tattooing or piercings," Reichert said. "All of us as human beings are pretty much the same, physically, and adding tattoos to your body is what truly makes you an individual. Now, I don't want to sound as if I am questing for individuality because that sounds silly, but I really feel as if I can wear myself with my tattoos."
Other students are not as interested in inking themselves for life.
"I don't mind if other people get them, but I personally would never get one because I think I would regret it later on," junior Michal Sierens said.
According to vanishingtattoo.com, tattoos were originally created to beautify, shock or humiliate and they could proclaim valor, religious belief, group solidarity or personal independence.
Now, tattoos are now part of everyday society and even part of television with shows like "Miami Ink" and "LA Ink." According to vanishingtattoo.com, over 60 percent of all North Americans aged 18 to 30 years old have at least one tattoo.
Hospitals.unm.edu states that one out of every five college students reports having at least one tattoo.
Chris Corbin, senior, has two tattoos, one on his back of a
Welsh dragon, and one on his inner left arm of Lamba Chi's open motto.
"I got the first one on my back partially because I was finally legal, but I also had wanted to get one for about two or three years before hand," Corbin said. "The second one was a little impetuous, and I probably should have put a little more thought into getting it."
Junior Jessica Reichert has five tattoos. She said that explaining the allure of tattoos to someone who does not have any is hard.
"I really have control over my body when I subject myself to something like tattooing or piercings," Reichert said. "All of us as human beings are pretty much the same, physically, and adding tattoos to your body is what truly makes you an individual. Now, I don't want to sound as if I am questing for individuality because that sounds silly, but I really feel as if I can wear myself with my tattoos."
Other students are not as interested in inking themselves for life.
"I don't mind if other people get them, but I personally would never get one because I think I would regret it later on," junior Michal Sierens said.
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