I hope people have a little more sense about this post than the analogous entry about the six-year old tattoo artist. Personally I agree that having your child’s artwork permanently made a part of your life is a wonderful way to hold onto a timeperiod that’s all too fleeting… And maybe will help you deal with them when they’re miserable teenagers, ha!
Anyway, Spiderlilly‘s daughter gave her a little self-portrait tattoo for her birthday, with some help from the folks at Suffer City Tattoo in Dallas, Texas. Too cute!
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89 responses to “Happy Birthday Mommy!”
Imagine seeing that tattoo on your mother’s body as you get older… watching how much you evolve over the years, and remembering that drawing. I wonder if she’ll do a new tattoo each year so she can trace her growth?
i think this is pretty fantastic. my mom never kept any of my drawings… let alone got one tattooed 🙂 i like that her child is helping with the actual tattoo – makes it much more of a drawing experience.
actually, when i was looking at the last photo, it struck me that the little girl didn’t have any tattoos and i thought it was weird. and then i remembered children don’t get tattoos…
i think this is a very cute idea, and don’t see how theres anything wrong with it, it was done in a shop, under sterile conditions.
i would deff consider this if i had kids 🙂
That girl is too cute 🙂 What a sweet idea for a birthday present!
adorable. I love tattoos that kids give their parents. I wish there was a bigger picture of it!
Oh soooo cute
I love kids
What a blatant rip-off of Cere’s art! – I mean… really cute.
I actually probably wouldn’t let my child tattoo me his/herself because I know that when I was a kid I was very particular about my drawings. If I’d have been tattooing my mum and made even a tiny mistake knowing it couldn’t be rubbed out, I would have been mortified that it wasn’t the exact image I wanted to make.
But if I have a kid that just doesn’t care whether they make a drawing mistake then all-the-more-awesome.
now that’s an experience I’d never forget
that’s the people that should be around!
they look soooo happy ^__________^
awesome ^^
dam what a milf
i’d like to see a closer pic of the tattoo?
thats the cutest thing!!!
Yeah, everyone has qualms about it, but I would personally just love for someone to complement my tattoos and ask about that goofy looking one, and for me to be able to proudly say “my child did that one.”
I had my 5 year old son tattoo the back of my leg. It is one of my favorite pieces.
Also, I love the comment about having “more brain than heart.” Thank you for that.
That my friend is effin awesome.
i would let a kid tattoo me any day. of course the proper saftey precautions would have to be in place. childrens drawings are always cooler than grown up drawings because it isn’t a cowboy hat… it’s an elephant in a snake! -anyone?
Im suing for copyright infringement.
scary, needlestick, nuf said
SWEET!!!
awww, that’s really cute.
I hope one day me and my kids can bond like that. 🙂
hello everyone. Thank you to everyone being supportive. Just to put some of those more critical minds at ease. Lilly’s father is a tattooer and he is the one helping with the machine. It was done in his shop, the same shop she spends 3 days out of the week at. It is a very clean family friendly shop. He isnt guiding the machine, just blocking her hand. The main reason he is helping is because it is a single coil machine and gets really hot. She is wearing the glasses for eye protection and actually knows how to remove the gloves correctly. She also knows all about cross contamination and a good bit about blood borne pathogens from growing up in a shop. Lilly tattooing me was very special and always will be. I told her she could do anything she wanted and she chose a self portrait with the words Happy Birthday. Im more inlove with my girl than anything or anyone in the world. Id let he tattoo my face if she wanted to so anyone that is worried about “ethics” or whatever- Shuve It! Have a great day 🙂
Oh, and thanks Shelly for letting me know this was up on Mod Blog, I had no idea.
spiderlilly: i envy your experience so much. i hope that one day i will be sitting in your exact shoes
heheh Lilly’s the best, her moms ok too, i guess… :p
the tattoo Rocks. It was a great idea with lots of meaning that’ll last forever.
custom freehand tattoos by Lilly. 🙂
Like Pam said Lilly knows her stuff more than a lot of other people that do it “professionally”
Love it :]
haha that’s so awesome.
i have planned, since the day my first son was born, to let him design the tattoo i get to represent his part of my life.
he’ll be turning 5 in a couple months, so he’s still a bit young… but i’m still looking forward to the day he draws something i can recognize (without him having to tell me what it is)
^_^
my husband is also a tattoo artist, but i never even once considered the option of letting my son actually do the tattoo and not just design it… dunno why that never occurred to me.
i’m so glad i read this!
now i don’t have to worry about anyone else tainting or mistranslating my son’s design. if he’s up to it, when the time comes, i can just get him to do it!
^_^
thanks for sharing
that tattoo sucks….
First of all…. for those of you who left nasty comments, that is my sister and my niece. The man in the picture is her father, a tattoo artist. It was at his shop and he supervised. She has been around tattoos her whole life. She has given her father tattoos. She was 9 years old in the picture. It was sweet and enduring. No one cares about the mean comments so just keep them to yourself… that’s what’s wrong with the world anyhow … people who like to be mean for no other reason than just to be mean.
triple glove the kid or something, I’m not being negative but that kid is at risk from needlestick, even if it is your kid…I’m not sure that possibly giving her any infection you’ve got is safe “bonding”
other than that…as far as the art aspect, it’s rad…but fuck, needlestick, man. scary.
triple glove? that would weaken this actual protection the gloves are providing. She is safe.
That’s adorable, and it looks like it turned out to be a great tattoo!
i’m 20 years old, and when i was about 16, my mother dug up the piece of paper where i wrote my name for the first time horribly in pink crayon.
she then had it copied and the color matched and got it tattooed on her wrist.
it’s obviously my favorite tattoo of hers…
even when people think she just had a horrible tattooist or something. haha
<3,
Emma
I think it is sweet!
Most definitely cute. I’d totally do this with my daughter.
I’m sorry, but this does NOT seem safe.
1. Child with needle….hmm….that doesn’t sit well with me.
2. Not a professional. Ink is permanent other than laser surgery.
3. Gloves don’t fit well. I’m in the medical field, and I know that improper fitting gloves hinder movement.
4. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal….
Just my 2 cents.
so sweet!!! oooh i will children!!!!
I would have never thought of that, but it is a great idea! I have thought about art from my 4 kids, but never them actually being the tattoo artist!