At age 18 do you think you can handle all of that?

At age 18 majority of adolescents are graduating high school and becoming with what society calls these days ‘adults’. At age 18 you have spent more than half of my life in school; 12 out of the 18 years you have lived you have spent those years getting an education. But at age 18 do you really know what you want to do for the rest of your life? At age 18 do you really want that tattoo on your body; because it is going to be there the rest of your life?

            To get ink tattooed onto a person’s body you need to be at least 18 to get it done without parent consent (Ashley). But did anyone every stop and think about it that the tattoo age is to young? At age 18 we have not had enough experience to know that we want something to be permanent on our bodies for the rest of our lives. The only thing that we have done at age 18 is go to school, and that’s all we really know. A person is considered an adult at age 18. At age 18 you can vote in the presidential election, buy tobacco, enlist in the army, and get a tattoo. We do not have enough knowledge to know that this is what we want to do at age 18. But what makes age 18 so different from ages 17 or 19; these things that adults can do, like, enlist in the army and get tattoos are not decision that should be made at such a young age.

            At age 18 society also wants us to go to college and figure out what we want to do for the rest of our lives. But has anyone ever taken a step back and really thought that 18 is too young of an age to do some of these things. To get a tattoo at 18 is too young of an age to permanently mark something on your body (Ashley). Getting a tattoo is a really important decision. You never just want to go into a tattoo parlor and pick something out of a book (Ashley). At age 18 that is how a lot of people pick how they get their tattoos, they just want a tattoo so they just pick anything. Also 18 year olds get tattoos when things such as peer pressure and alcohol are involved and that is just never a good mix (Ashley). Having a tattoo affects job opportunities, and it automatically gives people the right to pass judgment on you just because you have a tattoo. At age 18 do you think you can handle all of that?

Ashley. "Be Responsible When It Comes To A Tattoo." Web log post. Infinite Tattoos Blog. N.p., 26 Mar. 2009. Web. 6 Apr. 2013.

This blog post discusses to be responsible when it comes to getting and picking out a tattoo. This blog is credible because all the post on the blog talk about tattoos. The author has articles about researching the tattoo artist, getting a tattoo in the right state of mind, foot tattoos, and a lot more. The blog has a numerous amount of articles that would interest a tattoo artist, someone getting a tattoo, people who have tattoos, or even for people who are just interested in them. The author of this blog is a woman named Ashley. There is no personal information about Ashley posted to know if she is any expert about tattoos or not. Based alone from her picture posted, Ashley seems like a person that knows what she is talking about because she has two full sleeves of tattoos. Based on knowledge if someone has two sleeves of tattoos they know a little something about tattoos themselves.