It seems that the world's attitude against tattoos are changing into a more excepted fashionable statement compared to the old fashioned thought that it was only meant for bikers, prisoners and sailors. We can see the attitudes have changed with the perception of tattoos, the media's influence on tattoos, the new tattoo generation, the entertainment world's impact on the increase of people with tattoos, the increase of tattoo parlours and what is the meaning behind the tattoos on individual bodies. .
Imagine lying on your back facing a man who you met 30 minutes ago and thinking; you will always remember his brown yet ginger beard and pimple on the bottom of his chin. He has his left hand pressing against your right shoulder and the infamous needle in his right hand about to stain your skin permanently. He does not tell you he is about to stab you, yet, all of a sudden there is three fine needles that are puncturing your skin one hundred and fifty times a second and you grab the side of the bed like it is about to sky rocket out of this world. He stops after 15 minutes and changes the needles. He tells you to breath in and there are now nine needles that are darkening the line that he already drew. 30 minutes after heavy breathing and holding onto the side of the bed there are now 15 needles on your skin to create that shading that he insisted on around the face of your boyfriend, that you don't know yet, but will break up with you a month later. Why did you get the tattoo when your mother told you not too? It is not just for bikers and sailors anymore but when did it all change? .
There has always been a negative perception of tattooing among the public that are not tattooed. Through the late 1980's to the mid 1990's it was assumed by the non-tattooed community that the main clientele for tattoos were bikers, prisoners, sailors or lower class individuals, and they all wanted the same type of large biker-style tattoo.
