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That's not technically correct though. At least it wasn't many years ago. People can get pierced with a guardian's approval and sign off. They cannot get a tattoo though.
Depends on your jurisdiction. In most places in Australia, a parent or guardian is absolutely able to provide consent for their child to get a tattoo. Good luck finding a decent tattoo artist who’s willing to take on the commission though.
I mentioned in another post that I knew an underage girl who got hers at "tattoo parties," where a guy comes and tats everybody, no questions asked. I have no idea who arranged it, or what the deal was. You now know everything I know about it, except I know this person very well, and knew her when she was underage and got her tats, so I fully believe her. She just said "Yeah, we had a party, and a guy came and gave tats to anyone who wanted one."
Hers were really nice, very professional looking.
We had those, but it was always one of the punks in the friend group who had got their hands on a tattoo gun.
The tattoos produced generally weren't great, but I could see a young dude/dudette with artistic talent putting cool shit on their friends for practice.
Lots of artists start out my tatting themselves.
My sister has piercings and a tattoo and she's 17 i think. Some shitface asked her out at a gym because "no way you are less than 18, you have a tattoo"
You "think?" You don't know how old your sister is? Do you know if she's younger or older than you?
I've known plenty of underage girls with tattoos. One told me that she got hers at parties where a bunch of kids got together and paid a pro to come to the house and give them all tats. I know for a fact that she wasn't a rich kid, so it must not have cost that much. Her tats were nice too, not like it was some amateur experimenting on minors.
Questionable Content correctly pointed out that there is no minimum age to purchase a tattoo gun.