Imerge Magazine - Oct2013 | Page 16

contracting Hepatitis, the cheap price you are offered is not worth the potential damage to your health. The “Scratcher earns no respect from the tattooist community, and the work they do is for the most part sub-par and not up to the standards of the professional tattooist. The client can very easily end up with a piece they are embarrassed by, and will eventually seek out a professional to cover the mistake, a person with a tattoo wants to be able to show it proudly after all. The stigma that was once attached to tattoos is happily fading away, it is no longer assumed that a tattooed person is a gang member, or a trouble maker of some sort, in fact the men and women who are being tattooed today are from eve ry walk of life, from the very wealthy, to the person next door. They are doctors, lawyers, nurses, bank presidents, firemen, police officers, actors, office workers, every profession you can think of, and of course Mom’s and Dad’s. Tattoos are definitely not a passing fad they have been here for thousands of years, and are more popular than ever. There will always be people who look down their noses at those of us with body art, there