I don’t personally know anyone who just rushed into getting a tattoo without thinking about it for a long time.
Just out of curiosity, what does a typical tattoo cost?
Sight size, complexity, colors, etc that impacts cost.
Example: What might a 2” by 2” rose cost?
Or you could post a pic of a tattoo you got and what it cost.
I have my daughters name. Doubt I’ll regret that one. Now my son wants to know why I don’t have his 
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My first two were. 18th birthday, was drinking and decided we should go get tattoos. Didn’t take long to regret it. Had 4 or 5 laser removal sessions before I gave up and just covered it up.
This one costed me about $800
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Wow!
A lot of work is charged by the hour. $100-200 an hour is common. Some artists are faster than others and some still like to charge by the piece. I’ve paid it both ways and always prefer by the piece and not hourly
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To be more specific, my tattoo artist was published twice in a tattoo magazine, but was still relatively cheap. This piece took about 7 hours in the chair at $125/hr (california prices would be MUCH higher) and it goes almost to the center of my back and covers my entire shoulder blade.
A great tattoo artist can cost a fortune (thousands, depending on how many hours in the chair) and do great work. Also, a bad tattoo artist can cost a few hundred and manage to do great work. It’s a gamble to take the latter choice.
Ultimately, you get what you pay for, but even though a bad tattoo artist could do good work - you’re trusting them not to mess it up… its a bad investment cost in pretty much every situation.
First rule of tattoos:
Don’t get a cheap one.
Probably happens sometimes, but often not the case. Been sitting on my current idea for several years
If you have wanted it that long, chances are if you get a good artist you won’t regret it. Go to all the local shops and look at their books and IG pages and pick the one who has the style that you like.
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Perhaps it would be more accurate to say impulsivity or poor judgment. While there are probably exceptions (as I said above), it’s hard to look at most tattoos and think that:
- This person spent a lot of time on this decision
and - This person is good at making long term decisions.
It has to be something that is deeply meaningful and certain to remain deeply meaningful for the rest of your life. Those things exist, but I don’t think most tattoos rise to that level.
To be clear, I am generally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. I don’t know what the tattoo means to you. Moreover, everybody does stupid things sometimes, so even if it was a bit of impulsivity and bad judgment that’s not a good way to judge people.
I remember watching this a while back:
Pretty insane people.
Sometimes I don’t think it has to have meaning. If one thinks a design looks cool that’s good enough reason for a lot of people nowadays.
I still think hand/neck/face tattoos fall into the categories you describe just because they still aren’t generally accepted.
But does that sound like solid judgment to you? Permanently marking your body because it looks cool?
To each their own. Some don’t view their skin as anything more than a canvas. They have no qualms about marking it up.
At least in the US in 2022, judging someone’s worth as an employee based on tattoos (unless it’s a swastika or something blatantly offensive ) says more about the employer.
If anything, tattoos show you someone is willing to commit to something long term.
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Depends on the situation. Would you want someone with a scorpion tattoo on their neck representing your company as an outside sales rep?
What about a person with vulgarity on their knuckles working reception? Is that the first person from your company you want people to see?
Most of the engineers I’ve worked with can get away with being asocial hobgoblins, unbound by the standards of polite society. Nobody cares if you have a form/fit/function tattoo on your forehead if you have good ideas and designs.
It’s just the times. Boomers were brainwashed that the only thing that matters is work and your job. So they don’t think it’s professional. Growing up I always heard “you won’t ever get a good job with tattoos”. It also doesn’t help that I’m a girl, I get stared at all the time. So to remedy that, my husband and I own our own businesses. People can stare all they want I don’t care.
As to the person who said it’s cheap and low class. Or maybe the opinion of boomers that it was, I beg to differ. Good tattoos are high class and extremely expensive.
I think it’s weird to look down on someone for having tattoos (as I and many others put a lot of thought into them), but then again, I do judge people with face/neck tattoos…so maybe it’s a double standard 
I get what your saying but I believe that very that well done tattoos are all about self awareness.
Would you lump his guy in with those others? It all really depends on who it is and the level of art they have undertaken. I go in for a sleeve on Friday. I draw half my art and my artist adds the rest.