Is Your Child Ready for Body Piercings?

Monday, January 24, 2011

Is Your Child Ready for Body Piercings?

While some parents consider it fashionable to have their infant daughter's ears pierced, concerns about infection should be foremost in the mind of anyone getting any part of their body pierced. In order to determine whether your child is old enough to have a piercing, consider that they need to be able to care properly for the piercing, as well as keep dirty hands and fingers away from the site.

Most physicians will pierce your child's ears in their office, as a sterile procedure, and as long as the baby is up to date with their immunizations. You will have to keep their hands away from their ears, and keep the site very clean however. Also, remember that with toddlers, they are harder to keep still during the piercing process, and might find the experience very uncomfortable, and will very likely play with the earrings during the healing process.

Teens are a bit more difficult, but if you keep an open dialogue with them about things like tattoos and piercings, you will be much less likely to be the parent who is surprised when their son or daughter comes home with a nasty infection because they got together with their friends and had a 'piercing party'.

It is generally best to wait for your child to ask you for a body piercing, and then to talk it over together, discussing the pros and the cons, before rushing out to get them pierced on your own. Infections, the possibility of chipped or broken teeth from lip piercings, and other body concerns, need to be fully explored prior to going to a body piercing studio, and if you're pre-teen hasn't opened up the topic already, sit them down and discuss it to avoid the possibility that they will get one without your knowledge anyway.
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You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

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Welcome to Inflicting Ink Tattoo. If you're looking for quality tattoo's from experienced artists in a clean, relaxed and professional environment then you have found the right place.

Our staff are professionally trained and come from diverse backgrounds, and they love to be challenged. At Inflicting Ink a tattoo is a special mark for each individual and is given its due respect. If you're in a hurry, you're in the wrong studio.

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Jeff Goyette Bio

Jeff Goyette was born and raised in Massachusetts where tattooing was illegal, and to this day is only allowed on a per community basis, with each community deciding for themselves whether to allow it or not. Jeff still wanted to be a tattoo artist, and so learned his trade and took it on the road with the tattoo tour where he continued his tattoo education through coursework and tour experience.

In 1993 Jeff opened Inflicting Ink Tattoo Studio in Portsmouth RI as a way to get out of touring and establish some roots in the community. He has been in this location for 17 years. After a few years in the shop however, he wanted to use his traveling experience to be able to bring tattooing to people who might not have the chance to get to a brick-and-mortar shop.

So he built the Inflicting Ink Traveling Tattoo truck, over 73 feet of truck housing a state of the art, sterile, mobile tattoo facility ~ there is nothing else like it on the planet, literally, as the Guiness Book of World Records has named it the largest tattoo facility in the world, but simply has no category to place it in.

The truck travels to fairs, events, concerts, and even does private parties, drawing large crowds and those who do not have access to a local tattoo studio for their body art. Jeff loves when he can give back to a community, and often simply brings the truck to draw in numbers at charity events whenever possible, whether any tattooing will be done or not.

He and his artists model their work on the belief that a customer should always feel that they have received a quality piece of art, that the work is consistent, and that they can be proud of their tattoo as well as where it came from.