If all else fails, parents can still try to protect their kids from major damage. Visit several tattoo and piercing parlors. These sterilizers work like pressure cookers and can kill hepatitis B. Needles should come in sealed packages and be opened in front of you. Each pot of ink or petroleum jelly should be fresh for you. Tattooers and piercers should wear latex gloves.
Guns used for punching holes in earlobes are inappropriate for other body parts.
Most piercing shops are dangerous and have no concept of what they're doing. For a tattoo, it's age 18 or no go. Unless, of course, the whole point is to needle your parents. New York manufacturer Gravity Free Factory estimates that it has single-handedly saved the world from getting more than 1 million new holes. Mehndi, the intricate Indian art of henna painting on skin, is the way to avoid the tiny holes of the tattooer's needles.