Noticed something lately? Seems like there is a sort of new trend coming along, teen stars with tattoos. No, Miley Cyrus isn’t the only teen star with a tattoo, though I think she might be the only one with two of them. I’m not talking about Justin Bieber either seeing he just doesn’t belong on this site, despite people often saying that he sounds like a girl.
So without doing real research into it (I don’t see why I should find as many tattoos as possible), not even going to post pictures of them, if you want to see the tattoos go Google them. So yeah, Miley Cyrus probably has the best known examples with her “Just Breathe” tattoo on her ribcage. Of course people tried to turn that into a tittie tat as they called it but that it might have a deeper meaning didn’t really matter.
It is somewhat funny though, when Miley was discovered to have a tattoo there it was all how could her parents let her get that and how inappropriate the location was. Now that it turns out that Demi Lovato has a tattoo in a similar location (though I don’t know what it says) there seems to be nothing at all. Or maybe I just have a sharper eye than the generic gossip press. Miley and Demi are seventeen though, that Ali Lohan at sixteen has a tattoo on her back (same one as her older sister actually) is also far less of a scandal than I would expect.
Now here is the thing, you can’t get a tattoo until you’re eighteen years old unless you parental consent. So yeah, their parents are fine with it and those are the people who matter in that. So other people can’t tell them that they’re wrong to be getting those tattoos, only their parents have that right.
Now the way I personally feel about tattoos is that I’m fine with them. However what I’ll never understand is people who get them just because they’re cool, to me it makes more sense that if you put something on your body for the rest of your life, it should have a deeper meaning. While I don’t know why Ali and Demi got their tattoos, the meaning behind Miley’s tattoos is quite well known as she has explained them. The one on her ribcage is related to people she has lost to lung disease and the Love tattoo in her ear is to symbolize that she only lets love in her ear. So there is a meaning behind them and if she and her parents feel that she won’t regret them in the future, why shouldn’t she get it?
If people are all of a sudden afraid that tons of teenagers will be getting tattoos now that the likes of Miley and Demi have them, there is something wrong there. Tattoos should be as mentioned, personal. If someone gets a tattoo just because they’re a fan, they’re not really listening to their idol. In a sense doing the exact opposite of what the likes of Miley do, instead of emulating their idol they are going against them.
So yeah, celebrities don’t get tattoos at that age just because they’re cool, they wouldn’t be able to get away with it. That they still get crap for it just because they’re celebrities (well mainly Miley in this case) and they don’t bother to find out what it stands for first. Though I have no doubt that they know that they will get that, they still go ahead with, that would also show quite a strong feeling in getting them.l
Though it’s also amusing how the main press didn’t notice Miley’s ear tattoo until a couple of days ago, while it has been clearly visible since early May. So for once they’re actually giving something to write about and they don’t take it but go ahead with non-existing stories.
So what is the point of this blog? I don’t really know, seemed like a better idea at the time that I started writing it. I guess the main conclusion is that celebrities really aren’t going to get a tattoo at seventeen years old just because they think they’re cool. Isn’t being a celebrity already cool enough?
Tags: Ali Lohan, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus
Demi’s tattoo says “You Make Me Beautiful” it’s from a song by Bethany Dillon. It was a song that really helped Demi through some tough times in her childhood and school days. She credits the song with changing her life.