I’m a 60-year-old mom who loves her tattoo

As the delighted recipient of a tattoo gift for my sixtieth, I have to say: pretty damn good.

As the proud mother of a tattoo artist working in the nicest tattoo shop in the Valley, the kicker to the anti-tattoo editorial was the feeling of shame one is apparently supposed to experience as aging (sagging) skin alters the look of one’s tattoo.

What’s it going to look like when you’re 60 is the boring, and all-too-common refrain.

As the delighted recipient of a tattoo gift for my sixtieth, I have to say: pretty damn good.

Quite a conservative editorial. The times they are a-changin’, and you need to keep up with them!

 

Susan Carter

Duncan

Cowichan Valley Citizen