Got ink?

I found this picture on a website discussing tattoos and other body modifications. It shows a "tattoo tester" kit that a student in America designed. This lead me to think, how many people get tattoos and then regret them? According to a story on http://www.ktar.com/ 50% of people have regrets about tattoos they have and will eventually decide to get them removed.

From these two stories, I think it's clear that tattoos are not something to rush into. I know of so many people who have woken up in the morning and decided "I'm going to get a tattoo today" and gone down to their local tattoo artist and chosen an flash art picture of something stupid like Betty Boop off the wall, a design that hundreds of other people probably have too, and later thought "WHY DID I DO THAT?!?"

It is my firm belief that tattoos are an art form, rather than being something to consider "bad". Although I do recognise that some people will choose to have awful things put on their bodies. Tattoos are a way to rebel, just the same as body piercings and the way we decide to dress. Except, in the case of tattoos, they are permanent and there's no cheap and easy way to change them.