Tattoos can be colorful but also painful and risky.
Encourage your teen to read Tattoo Safety before decorating his body. Extreme Beauty Urge your tattoo-bent teen to think beyond today. Make sure your teen understands that while tattoos are permanent, the firmness and texture of young skin are fleeting. The graceful wings on that butterfly tattoo may grow cracked and droopy 20 years from now. Also, impress upon your teen that removal of tattoos can be expensive, painful, and risky, and that it can cause permanent discoloration or scarring.