Last week, my cousin and I went around to visit a few different possible places to get our tattoos. We went to Blaze Ink, 13th Hour Tattoo, Soul Survivor Body Art, Osborne Village Ink Tattoo, and Rebel Waltz. Blaze Ink and Rebel Waltz seemed like the friendliest and cleanest places (least likely for our parents to get freaked out and change their opinions.) However, Rebel Waltz gave us a quote of $80 each, while most other places were $120 minimum. My cousin and I both felt comfortable in Rebel Waltz an the lady was very friendly, so we've decided that that'll be the place we go to get our tattoos done. We may be going on April 30th if everything works out!!! Very exciting. Now, I'm just trying to finalize a design. :)
Something interesting happened when we went to Soul Survivor. When we showed our design to one of the artists, she was trying to convince us to get it bigger than we wanted. We said "no, we can't get it too big," and she said "why, who cares? It'll look better." Then, my cousin, Peter, said "our parents care!" She sort of laughed at us and said "oh they won't notice" and tried to convince us to show our parents a smaller design then get a bigger one when we actually go to get the tattoo. That situation bothered me and we both decided we wouldn't be going there to get anything. I was glad that my cousin wasn't shy to say that our parents care about the size and that matters for us, because it does. Part of our Christian faith is to "honour your father and mother," and it would be quite ironic to disobey your parents in the process of getting a cross tattooed on your wrist.
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