Enter the name of the county and state in which you reside. Step 13 – Initial here to agree to pay the tattoo studio for any legal fees that occur due to legal action you bring against the studio. Step 12 – Initial if you agree to the studio’s no refund policy. Step 11 – Initial here if you’re comfortable with the tattoo studio taking and using photos of the tattoo for their reproduction in print or online. Step 10 – Initial to show you understand the permanence of the tattoo and the consequences of removal. Step 9 – This simply states that the color and clarity of the tattoo will change over time and variations may exist between the art selected and the finished product. Step 8 – The artist and studio does not hold itself responsible for the meaning or spelling of the tattoo. Step 7 – Initial here if none of the illnesses/conditions relayed in this paragraph apply to your current condition. Initial here to indicate that this is true. Step 6 – You may not be under the influence of drugs or alcohol when consenting to the tattoo. Initial here if this is the case and you recognize that touch up work might be necessary. Step 5 – The care for the tattoo must be given prior to receiving the artwork. Step 4 – This should be initialed if all questions have been asked and satisfactory answers have been given. Step 3 – Initial here if you agree to waive and release the artist and all employees of the tattoo studio of all liability. Next, enter your name and initial next to the paragraph which states that you’ve been informed of the risks associated with getting the tattoo. Tattoo artists there are also required to ask for identification from anyone who appears to be under the age of 25.Step 2 – The name of the studio or independent artist should be submitted in the first field. In Victoria, the Capital Regional District requires the consent of a parent or guardian. In most Canadian cities, there are no laws preventing teens from getting tattoos, only guidelines recommending teenagers obtain parental consent. "To me, the most beneficial thing is for parents to be having the conversation, and to really be thinking, helping their child think long term about what could be the unintended consequences of tattooing or piercing in certain locations," MacDiarmid told CBC News. Health MInister Margaret MacDiarmid says the province does plan to bring in tougher guidelines, but has no plans to make parental consent for teen tattoos a legal requirement. "Too many people are catching diseases, too many people are getting injured, there’s massive infections, and too many people are tattooing that have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, without proper training, without using proper techniques, without using the proper equipment."ī.C. right now have no age limit, so really anybody can be tattooed at any age," he said.
Body Art Association, wants the province to create a regulatory body to enforce standards throughout the province. Many tattoo artists are calling for changes.Ĭharles Parent, an artist at the Mad Tatter in Surrey and head of the B.C. "There should be rules until a certain age when they've actually become mature enough to decide what they want to do." Hanschen had her tattoo surgically removed and wants her daughter to do the same. "It made me look like a lower class citizen." "It stopped me from getting jobs," she said. G Fjellnar, who works at Ink Fetish in Prince George, says amateur artists run rampant. Prince George mom Sheila Hanschen was furious when her 15-year-old daughter got a tattoo without her consent. Only one tattoo parlour - Ink and Honey in Port Coquitlam - flatly refused the teen, saying they wouldn’t ink her unless her parents signed a consent form.
If they are under 18 - depends on the tattoo," said Dredge. "Under 17 - definitely a parent must come in. One staff member at Phoenix Tattoos in Surrey agreed to do the tattoo and ignore the teen’s age, saying it was unlikely her parents would ever find out.īut in a follow-up interview, the shop's owner Phoenix Dredge said there is nothing wrong or illegal with tattooing a 17-year-old, calling it a judgment call as long as the tattoo is not offensive. "But I made an excuse not to do it now but he would have done it right then."īut when the teen went back into the shop minutes later, she was told anyone under the age of 18 needs the permission of a parent to get a tattoo.
"He was ready and he said, ‘Do you want to do this now?’ and I said, ‘How long would it take?’ and he said, ‘Twenty minutes,’" the teen told CBC News.
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