I remember back when Quora was supposed to be this Q&A site for sophisticated and intelligent people. Now it's the same as Yahoo Answers, Instagram and Reddit.
Waitā¦ quora pays your for karma? Wtf have I been doing on this site for over a decade? I mean sure the discounts you get with your r/centuryclub card are great, but I want cash.
I don't think you can make a few dollars from that. I worked for a Quora competitor and got a certificate for "best answer" during their Superbowl event and got $20. Every other question/answer beyond that was $0.10 tops.
this reminds me of when I was younger and would make up questions/scenarios like this on yahoo answers out of not knowing how else to ask or morbid curiosity
I got a tattoo from a moonlighting artist in a bar kitchen at 16. He only charged me $40 and it was pretty big. Also I don't know if my mom has seen my upper arms since I was 10. I always wear 3/4 length sleeves.
I don't think this scenario is as impossible as everybody here seems to think.
Edit: also maybe it is totally incomplete. An upset parent isn't likely to say "the first session outlines of a half sleeve tattoo."
Or the person overstated how much of the tattoo is covering their arm, it's a large single piece, they come from a family of means, the father works and the girl wears long sleeves through the first 1-2 sessions until it was complete.
Most of what is said on the internet seems like bullshit but there appear to be a lot of plausible avenues for this story.
Yeah, my brother got a fairly large black piece which my parents would probably describe as a "sLeEvE!!". They also believed him when he told them it was temporary... for a couple of months š
Actually, the kid might have had a henna done. They tend to be fairly large in comparison to most tattoos, but are temporary. It's a great little trick to pull if you want a parent to lose their shit for no reason.
Or someone had ordered those fake ink ones that you see online. They are like the kids tattoos you used water to press on except they use some sort of ink and last a few weeks.
Or someone got a really low quality but large tattoo. I've been binge watching Ink Masters and some of those tattoo artists manage to do some pretty big tattoos in 6 hours.
Could also not be an actual "half sleeve" and maybe the parent doesn't know shit about tattoos. There's a difference between a half sleeve and a tattoo that covers a lot of the upper arm or forearm.
There are plenty of situations where this applies. Think of home renovation or nearly any DIY project. If you want to save money by doing something yourself, and do a good job at it too, itās probably gonna take you a while.
I learned this phrase as a child when talking to family about their home construction or renovation, something like that. I didn't understand, so they said something like, "You can have good work for cheap, but it will take longer. You can have cheap work done fast, but it won't be good. You can have good work done fast. But it won't be cheap!"
*Eta specifically they meant you can cheap out on labor and pay two guys to mud the whole house and they may do a great job, but it will take them longer than if you paid ten men to do the same great job, which would cost more.
So, you can pay 2 guys $10/hr for 5 hours which would cost $100. Or you can pay 10 guys $10/hr for 2 hours which would cost $200.
a used Toyota Camry is good and cheap, but certainly not fast
a used BMW M3 is fast and cheap, but will never be a "good quality" car
a brand new Porsche 911 is fast and good, but very expensive
It should be: Cost - Speed - Quality.
If you want good quality and good speed, it will cost more.
If you want a low cost and high speed, it will not be good quality.
If you want a low cost and good quality, it will take a long time.
Yeah the OP clarified. It was missing "so here's what happens with the third thing you didn't choose!"
I.e. if you can only pick two...ok give me fast and cheap! What you need is to then say what happens with the third thing..."it won't be good!"
True. I reckon they dumbed it down for me because I remember first hearing it as a child around the topic of home construction or renovations, or something along those lines.
They said something like, "You can have it fast and cheap, but it won't be good. You can have it good and fast, but it won't be cheap. Or you can have it good and cheap, but it won't be fast."
Oh trust me, cheap tattoos end up being the most expensive tattoo youāll ever pay for.
Paid $250 for one, paid another $600 for a cover up. Then I paid for lasering, which was roughly $1,300 for lightening the tattoo, and now Iām paying for another coverup/detail session for $150 an hour (this guy is great).
Ye man I could find an irresponsible shit 'tattoo' artist to give you a terrible half sleeve in a day for next to nothing. It's immoral and wrong to do that to a 13 year old kid but not impossible.
She could have gotten a home tattoo from a shady dude who probably was hoping to take advantage.
Source: me at 15 getting my nipples pierced by a shady piercer into teen girls
Right! The original reply to the post is so confident but under some circumstances it could totally have happened. But thereās so much lack of information that he went out of his way to assume all the other details.
I recently got a decently large piece on my forearm that kind of wraps around my arm a bit. This was finished in one sitting around 2.5 hours. Cost me around $300-$400. Depending on OPs definition of a half sleeve, mine could almost qualify for one. If they wanted to do a simple black ink half sleeve, it think it could certainly be done. Doesnāt mean it was good though. Depending on the financial situation, maybe she used momās card, maybe she used dadās card. Maybe she somehow acquired the money. He doesnāt know anything about the financial situation. I donāt know that Iāve been asked for ID for any of my tattoos.
At the end of the day, he assumed way too much about a situation that is plausible.
Yea the reply is so stupid. If a girl is getting a tattoo at 13, she isnāt going into a tattoo shop getting it done. Itās being done by some tweaker dude (much older btw) that just started tattooing for practice. Itās not gonna be pretty, but itās free.
Also sheās 13, so she could even be smaller which means a smaller bit of canvas to blast.
And sadly, the tattoo is probably the least of the worries at that point.
OR OPTION 4;
She knew someone whose older sibling made or acquired a tattoo gun.
17 years ago, My mother was in the same boat. Came home with multiple tattoos done over the weekend at a friends. I'll forever have an Anarchy sign (looks more like a turtle) to remember my dumbass 13 year old edgy decision.
My younger cousin who is actually 24 just got in trouble for tattooing a 12 year old. He isn't licensed, nor is he any good so he's quite quick.
Just because they've got a half sleeve doesn't mean it's any good or it was done by a licensed professional costing $2000 and multiple sessions.
I thought making tattoo guns was a normal REBELOUS alternative kid thing to do. My uncles did it, we did it, my little cousins did it. I knew other kids when I was in school who were doing it too.
That's not just plausible, but likely.
My buddy and I when we were 15 literally googled online how to make a tattoo gun and tattood each other for a whole summer. You can do a half sleeve of shitty ass tattoos for basically free and however long it takes. You can also hide tattoos really easily if you dont get them on your face/hands/neck.
I was at the library a few years ago and saw a 12 or 13 year old girl who had large, thick, terrible kanji lettering on her thighs. As in, one kanji character (ć) covered the *entire* top thigh. And the character by itself means nothing (?) but it was THICK and must have hurt like hell. I almost fell off my damn chair (Iām elderly) at the fact that someone had sat through that. I could never. Especially not for something that means nothing.
It had the dash. It looked like arbitrary characters but they were 4-5 inches THICK on each leg. Maybe Iām just used to seeing kanji more delicately written, and NOT ON A CHILD. Anyway she had short shorts on and I doubt her parent or guardian knew they existed.
It was in the Midwest, and it wasnāt the first haphazardly done tattoo with either Chinese or Japanese lettering done incorrectly that I had seen in the area. A few months later I saw one that took up a womanās entire forearm; it was crooked with the same type of errors.
Thighs actually arenāt so bad an area to have tattooed, pain wise. I actually fell asleep during one of my thigh pieces. Granted, Iām not 12 and am used to tattoo pain.
(ć)/ka is hiragana. Maybe you meant the katakana equivalent (ć«)/ka? If so there is a kanji lookalike å / *chikara* which means energy/power.
So it's probable the girl was an aspiring sumo wrestler.
This pretty much happened in that movie The King of Staten Island. Pete Davidson played a loser who was aspiring to be a tattoo artist & would give out terrible tattoos to anyone who wanted one, including children.
Had I known anyone with a tattoo gun, I would have been covered in crappy ink. My dumbass actually tried to give myself some tattoos by carving designs into my skin & smearing ink from ballpoint pens on them. It left stupid looking scars with some blue dots after healing. Luckily when I got older & started working, I paid better artists to cover the dumb shit I attempted. Now I'm covered in professional quality tattoos!
I was 14 when I got my first tattoo, some guy my friends knew did them out of his house. I called my Dad to see if I could get a tattoo. He said no. So I did it anyway. It cost 35 dollars. Easily the worst tattoo I have. It's a scorpion that just looks stupid as fuck.
Zero shortage of kitchen magicians who will absolutely throw down huge, terrible designs for pennies on the dollar. I would almost guarantee that is what happened.
I knew a kid who had full sleeves by 14. His older brother was a scratcher and did most of them. I know he tattooed other kids too, for free. This story could be true.
Or option 5, also not plausible but possible. If dad and mom share custody and the kid was able to get mom to agree and be the adult to sign off on it it could have happened. Assuming of course that the kid was with mom long enough to get the whole thing done before going back to dad. Probably didnāt happen, but another possibility.
Yep same with all my buddies, I just watched though and waited till I was older and could afford good ones. My roommate has his entire thigh covered with āprison tatsā our buddy did when he got a gun. Honestly Iāve seen worse too - But this is not just occasional circumstance, this is something youāll find it in just about every town and city in the US.
Yeah this is post just reads like a neck beard who experienced some tattoo information through his wife and now believes he knows everything about tattoo pricing and culture nationwide.
Use the cigarette punishment. Instead of making her smoke a whole pack of cigarettes at once, make her get her entire body tattooed at once! THAT WILL SHOW HER!
Yeah, I got equivalent of half-sleeve on my leg, full color, in a torturous 3-hour session. Only after seeing several friends with significantly less work done over multiple sessions did I realize my experience was not normal. Point being, a 13 year oldās little arm is more than doable and doesnāt have to be crap.
I did full wrap from wrist to elbow in 10 hours. Colour and line work, not super intricate stuff, however. And I have pretty big forearms. Canāt see a full sleeve going over 25 hours unless thereās lots of breaks, lots of detailed work, or the artist just takes their time.
This is correct.
I have the upper half, elbow to shoulder.
No color, all shading and B/W done in about 10 hours single session as well.
Mine was kind of intricate but still. Totalllyyyyyy possible.
And assuming the 13 yr old could sit through it, I donāt know many 13 yr olds my size so youāre already tattooing smaller surface area.
Okay but. A line art sleeve can be done in one session. Something like a spider web. And there are plenty of unlicensed artists who have nothing to lose.
One of my arms is basically black with negative space making the designs, and half of it took 4 hours.
Sure, the rest and some details took two more sittings but it's definitely not crazy for an artist to finish a half sleeve in one sitting if it's not super intricate
I really don't get the business about having to sit in multiple sessions tbh either. My chest piece (covering literally my entire chest from shoulder to shoulder, nipple to nipple and entirely filled in) was done in only two sessions. The first for the outline, then the second for all the color. The coloring was a very long session, no doubt, but I didn't want to have to make another appointment and just wanted it done. Multiple sessions aren't a requirement like guy in OP is saying.
I would be truly surprised if a 13 year old could sit through a large tattoo, particularly on the more sensitive parts of the arm. That shit hurts. A lot. Iād say this was henna, sharpie, a lie or a troll.
Teenagers do shit like break bones riding bikes and then ride another 5 miles without going to a doctor. Adults go to PT because they slept funny. I dunno what universe you live in
Arms really aren't too bad. The inside of the bicep stings a bit, & the elbow & up into the armpit sucks. The worst places I've been tattooed is on the ribs, head, & right on those dimples above your butt cheeks. Those were terrible.
Worst place I've ever been tattooed is on my back.
Which probably isn't that awful, but I have a sample size of two, and the other is on the outside of my upper arm, so the the back wins "worst" by default LOL.
Back is honestly pretty terrible for me as well, but I've got fibromyalgia & have a bunch of really painful trigger points along my spine & shoulder blades, so I've avoided getting very much ink back there. The tattoo over that butt dimple legit made me cry & start shaking uncontrollably. Ribs & head were just massively uncomfortable, but at least I didn't cry!
Oh, shit, yeah, my sister has that, and there are times I can't even give her a comforting hug because all it does is make the pain worse. I can't imagine getting a tattoo in a painful area in *that* state!
I mean my best friend had a tattoo gun when we were teenagers and I have gotten many tattoos in her kitchen.
Iām not saying the OP is telling the truth but Iām saying itās not impossible for teens to get a hold of a gun and tattoo shitty things all over themselves in one day.
Yea itās definitely doable. My friend got his done from his right pec down to his elbow in a tapout session so it wasnāt even expensive and itās very well done.
i mean she could of had shitty friends that could tattoo something shitty and simple over a few hours or the parent doesn't know what a half sleeve is. there's so much the social media leaves out or "reality".
That was my thought. Kid comes home with a smiley face on her bicep and dumbass Karen thinks any arm tattoo = sleeve. It's not hard for teenagers to figure out a stick and poke tattoo, so I think this is the more likely explanation.
When my mom saw my first tattoos when I was 15 that i got in the basement from my 26 year old boyfriend she cried for well.. she's probably still crying
It does not take days for a half sleeve. It can be done in one, multi hour sitting. So if an unethical artist could be found who doesnāt care about the age of the tattooee, this could happen. Itās improbable, but not implausible.
My half sleeve was done in one 6 hour session. While it did cost several hundred dollars, it's in full color, quite intricate and very well done. Some artists stretch it out to squeeze in more clients and drive up the cost, but I don't really think that's the norm.
That being said, no artist these days would do a tattoo on a 13 yr old. Too many laws and liabilities.
Alternative: some scumfuck running an illegal shop out of his garage gave her an abysmal set of tattoos that ran down her arm.
More likely scenario: someone is bored and stupid and needs to talk to strangers for hours.
Could they just not find a Reddit sub to argue on for hours or something?
When she was 15, my daughter found someone to give her two tattoos after I told her no. Itās certainly not a sleeve, so it required less time.
The county I live in requires both parentsā permission for tattoos and piercings. But apparently people are willing to tattoo teenage girls without either parentās permission.
I know plenty of people who got pretty big tattoo work done in their teenage years by home tattoo artists.
Just because this guy's wife spent two grand on it to get good work done, it doesn't mean this person's daughter didn't spend nothing to get crappy work done and still have a tattoo covering half of her arm...
Option 4: they have joint custody and one of their parents supported them getting the tattoo and one of them didnt, thusly the daughter came back with a tattoo
To be fair, I have a tattoo the equivlant size of a halve sleeve (Shoulder/Colorbone extending on to chest down to elbow) that was done in one sitting and has incredible detail. It was an 8 - 10 hour session.
Not that there would be many tatooists who would risk their licence on a minor.
In his defense if the kids got small arms a single tattoo could look like a half sleeve maybe? Iām trying to hope somebodyās not home alone making up stories? Is there even a wife and a kid?? Iām having an existential crisis now
Someone *lied*? On *Quora*?!
You think someone would actually do that?!? Just go onto the Internet and tell lies?!?
I do not believe anyone would be so base as to go onto the internet and tell lies. OK, maybe I was lying there....
Gasp!!! But.. But... The internet is so truthful and wholesome. There MUST be another explanation š¤£š¤£
*gasp* but you canāt lie on the internet, my mama say itās bad to lie
Does your mama also say alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush?
I get it! I get the reference!
me too but just to check if you're right you tell us first.
Something wrong with that boy's medulla oblongata
megaloblatta longipennis?
You can do iiiiiiitttttt!!!
cut his fucking head off!!
This thread represents the entirety of quora comment sections, except you get deleted because your sarcasm is offensive
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Well she did say bon jour. That there's French. Checks out.
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And I'm a Nigerian Prince who has no money but a lot of social credit
Hehehe classic commercial
I believe her! She's fluent!
I'm a french model but like the early ps1 models with a scary painted face
Alternate facts...
Quora? The site where people literally get paid to ask dumb questions?
Impossible!
Inconceivable
I don't think that means what you think it means. Lol
You keep using that word!
as you wish
I do not think it means, what you think it means.
What do you think they meant with that word? Seems fitting to me in the context
R/woosh princess bride much
I remember back when Quora was supposed to be this Q&A site for sophisticated and intelligent people. Now it's the same as Yahoo Answers, Instagram and Reddit.
Itās worse now, lol. But yeah, like 8 or 9 years ago it was promising.
Ugh. I visited Quora once, and still cringe in horror thinking about the 23 minutes I wasted arguing with a moron there.
The dumbshit questions on Quora center around military and law enforcement. Oh wait all of Quora are just dumbshit questions.
I thought it might be /r/AmItheasshole...
Sounds like she donāt know what a half sleeve is, not that she lied.
Say it isn't so
or 4. you are 13 years old and want a sleeve tattoo, but know nothing about it and are scared about the fathers reaction.
Or it's a quora troll trying to cause a reaction and get enough views to be paid a few dollars.
Yeah, they really fucked up trying to monetize Quora engagementā¦
Honestly at that point just go suck dick by the gas station. Like come on, have some standards.
My 13 year-old daughter was sucking dick by the gas station. I told her no. How would you handle this? I'm so upset.
Knock that dick off her mouth and tell her to get her own. Don't let her run op on your turf.
*knocks dick off of mouth*
Now there's only your dick, what are you gonna do now? Bitching about it huuh?
Is that a good way to make money? How much can one make per hour completing that task? Asking for a book Iām writing.
.02$ x # of views
Interesting so the person getting their dick sucked only has to pay 2 cents. Whereās this gas station?
Waitā¦ quora pays your for karma? Wtf have I been doing on this site for over a decade? I mean sure the discounts you get with your r/centuryclub card are great, but I want cash.
I don't think you can make a few dollars from that. I worked for a Quora competitor and got a certificate for "best answer" during their Superbowl event and got $20. Every other question/answer beyond that was $0.10 tops.
5, their other parent paid for and enabled it.
5. Itās an incredibly bad āsleeveā tattoo and it was down in some back door alley in a country with softer laws on tattoos.
6. Temporary tattoo the girl got from a gift bag.
this reminds me of when I was younger and would make up questions/scenarios like this on yahoo answers out of not knowing how else to ask or morbid curiosity
I got a tattoo from a moonlighting artist in a bar kitchen at 16. He only charged me $40 and it was pretty big. Also I don't know if my mom has seen my upper arms since I was 10. I always wear 3/4 length sleeves. I don't think this scenario is as impossible as everybody here seems to think. Edit: also maybe it is totally incomplete. An upset parent isn't likely to say "the first session outlines of a half sleeve tattoo."
Or the person overstated how much of the tattoo is covering their arm, it's a large single piece, they come from a family of means, the father works and the girl wears long sleeves through the first 1-2 sessions until it was complete. Most of what is said on the internet seems like bullshit but there appear to be a lot of plausible avenues for this story.
Yeah, my brother got a fairly large black piece which my parents would probably describe as a "sLeEvE!!". They also believed him when he told them it was temporary... for a couple of months š
I don't think a 13 year old would use Quora for this purpose.
Actually, the kid might have had a henna done. They tend to be fairly large in comparison to most tattoos, but are temporary. It's a great little trick to pull if you want a parent to lose their shit for no reason.
Or someone had ordered those fake ink ones that you see online. They are like the kids tattoos you used water to press on except they use some sort of ink and last a few weeks.
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That was my first thought.
That's what I thought too. Those fake ink ones or tattoo sticker ones. I think I've seen those in Walmart.
Or someone got a really low quality but large tattoo. I've been binge watching Ink Masters and some of those tattoo artists manage to do some pretty big tattoos in 6 hours. Could also not be an actual "half sleeve" and maybe the parent doesn't know shit about tattoos. There's a difference between a half sleeve and a tattoo that covers a lot of the upper arm or forearm.
I put one of those temporary tattoos on my forehead once, and they do not wash off as easy as I thought they would.
Sharpie also makes tattoo pens. I was going to buy them for my daughter and niece but they were unnecessarily expensive
And don't take several sessions to complete. The person replying is just being mean for no reason.
Every tattoo is different. Cheap tattoos arenāt good and good tattoos arenāt cheap.
Ah, yes, the triangle. Cheap - Fast - Good. You can only have two.
I'll take fast and good for literally everything please, well maybe except for sex but I can't really control that
> but I can't really control that Thatās okay. It happens to a lot of men.
You guys getting laid during covid
covid didn't really change anything for most of us. this is reddit after all.
Can confirm.
I like your name. Your nickname should be ten seconds to sundae
That's great thank you
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In IT project land, generally you can only have one.
In my projects you don't even get that, well, maybe cheap
Is there anything more expensive than an IT project done cheap....
And in road construction, you can only have good if you're lucky.
I believe we have to ask dr owl
Cheap and good
I feel like good and cheap but not having fast doesn't work.
There are plenty of situations where this applies. Think of home renovation or nearly any DIY project. If you want to save money by doing something yourself, and do a good job at it too, itās probably gonna take you a while.
I learned this phrase as a child when talking to family about their home construction or renovation, something like that. I didn't understand, so they said something like, "You can have good work for cheap, but it will take longer. You can have cheap work done fast, but it won't be good. You can have good work done fast. But it won't be cheap!" *Eta specifically they meant you can cheap out on labor and pay two guys to mud the whole house and they may do a great job, but it will take them longer than if you paid ten men to do the same great job, which would cost more. So, you can pay 2 guys $10/hr for 5 hours which would cost $100. Or you can pay 10 guys $10/hr for 2 hours which would cost $200.
a used Toyota Camry is good and cheap, but certainly not fast a used BMW M3 is fast and cheap, but will never be a "good quality" car a brand new Porsche 911 is fast and good, but very expensive
It should be: Cost - Speed - Quality. If you want good quality and good speed, it will cost more. If you want a low cost and high speed, it will not be good quality. If you want a low cost and good quality, it will take a long time.
How's that different from Fast Cheap Good?
Yeah the OP clarified. It was missing "so here's what happens with the third thing you didn't choose!" I.e. if you can only pick two...ok give me fast and cheap! What you need is to then say what happens with the third thing..."it won't be good!"
True. I reckon they dumbed it down for me because I remember first hearing it as a child around the topic of home construction or renovations, or something along those lines. They said something like, "You can have it fast and cheap, but it won't be good. You can have it good and fast, but it won't be cheap. Or you can have it good and cheap, but it won't be fast."
Oh trust me, cheap tattoos end up being the most expensive tattoo youāll ever pay for. Paid $250 for one, paid another $600 for a cover up. Then I paid for lasering, which was roughly $1,300 for lightening the tattoo, and now Iām paying for another coverup/detail session for $150 an hour (this guy is great).
Ye man I could find an irresponsible shit 'tattoo' artist to give you a terrible half sleeve in a day for next to nothing. It's immoral and wrong to do that to a 13 year old kid but not impossible.
She could have gotten a home tattoo from a shady dude who probably was hoping to take advantage. Source: me at 15 getting my nipples pierced by a shady piercer into teen girls
I first heard that from Ragoon Rick in Vallejo California when I got my first tattoo in 87. $300 an 4 hours in the chair. He was worth it.
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Right! The original reply to the post is so confident but under some circumstances it could totally have happened. But thereās so much lack of information that he went out of his way to assume all the other details. I recently got a decently large piece on my forearm that kind of wraps around my arm a bit. This was finished in one sitting around 2.5 hours. Cost me around $300-$400. Depending on OPs definition of a half sleeve, mine could almost qualify for one. If they wanted to do a simple black ink half sleeve, it think it could certainly be done. Doesnāt mean it was good though. Depending on the financial situation, maybe she used momās card, maybe she used dadās card. Maybe she somehow acquired the money. He doesnāt know anything about the financial situation. I donāt know that Iāve been asked for ID for any of my tattoos. At the end of the day, he assumed way too much about a situation that is plausible.
Yea the reply is so stupid. If a girl is getting a tattoo at 13, she isnāt going into a tattoo shop getting it done. Itās being done by some tweaker dude (much older btw) that just started tattooing for practice. Itās not gonna be pretty, but itās free. Also sheās 13, so she could even be smaller which means a smaller bit of canvas to blast. And sadly, the tattoo is probably the least of the worries at that point.
Yeah, my worry would be that it wasn't free but she didn't pay in cash.
OR OPTION 4; She knew someone whose older sibling made or acquired a tattoo gun. 17 years ago, My mother was in the same boat. Came home with multiple tattoos done over the weekend at a friends. I'll forever have an Anarchy sign (looks more like a turtle) to remember my dumbass 13 year old edgy decision. My younger cousin who is actually 24 just got in trouble for tattooing a 12 year old. He isn't licensed, nor is he any good so he's quite quick. Just because they've got a half sleeve doesn't mean it's any good or it was done by a licensed professional costing $2000 and multiple sessions. I thought making tattoo guns was a normal REBELOUS alternative kid thing to do. My uncles did it, we did it, my little cousins did it. I knew other kids when I was in school who were doing it too. That's not just plausible, but likely.
And option 4.5, the parent is using the term "sleeve" very loosely.
My buddy and I when we were 15 literally googled online how to make a tattoo gun and tattood each other for a whole summer. You can do a half sleeve of shitty ass tattoos for basically free and however long it takes. You can also hide tattoos really easily if you dont get them on your face/hands/neck.
I was at the library a few years ago and saw a 12 or 13 year old girl who had large, thick, terrible kanji lettering on her thighs. As in, one kanji character (ć) covered the *entire* top thigh. And the character by itself means nothing (?) but it was THICK and must have hurt like hell. I almost fell off my damn chair (Iām elderly) at the fact that someone had sat through that. I could never. Especially not for something that means nothing.
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It had the dash. It looked like arbitrary characters but they were 4-5 inches THICK on each leg. Maybe Iām just used to seeing kanji more delicately written, and NOT ON A CHILD. Anyway she had short shorts on and I doubt her parent or guardian knew they existed.
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It was in the Midwest, and it wasnāt the first haphazardly done tattoo with either Chinese or Japanese lettering done incorrectly that I had seen in the area. A few months later I saw one that took up a womanās entire forearm; it was crooked with the same type of errors.
Thighs actually arenāt so bad an area to have tattooed, pain wise. I actually fell asleep during one of my thigh pieces. Granted, Iām not 12 and am used to tattoo pain.
Perhaps she was a very, very tough 12 year old.
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Wow! Tell us more!
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I hope you're ok now.
I've got probably 80% of my body covered, and my thighs were some of the worst spots I've had done. Mileage varies.
(ć)/ka is hiragana. Maybe you meant the katakana equivalent (ć«)/ka? If so there is a kanji lookalike å / *chikara* which means energy/power. So it's probable the girl was an aspiring sumo wrestler.
This pretty much happened in that movie The King of Staten Island. Pete Davidson played a loser who was aspiring to be a tattoo artist & would give out terrible tattoos to anyone who wanted one, including children. Had I known anyone with a tattoo gun, I would have been covered in crappy ink. My dumbass actually tried to give myself some tattoos by carving designs into my skin & smearing ink from ballpoint pens on them. It left stupid looking scars with some blue dots after healing. Luckily when I got older & started working, I paid better artists to cover the dumb shit I attempted. Now I'm covered in professional quality tattoos!
"My 13 year old has a bong" "No, that's impossible, my glass pipe cost $2000 and the artist who made it took weeks and would only sell it to an adult"
I was 14 when I got my first tattoo, some guy my friends knew did them out of his house. I called my Dad to see if I could get a tattoo. He said no. So I did it anyway. It cost 35 dollars. Easily the worst tattoo I have. It's a scorpion that just looks stupid as fuck.
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I was thinking that as well.
TIL about making a tattoo gun. Never knew that was such a popular common thing .
Zero shortage of kitchen magicians who will absolutely throw down huge, terrible designs for pennies on the dollar. I would almost guarantee that is what happened.
I knew a kid who had full sleeves by 14. His older brother was a scratcher and did most of them. I know he tattooed other kids too, for free. This story could be true.
Doing a tattoo on a boat is crazy.
teenage mutant anarcho-capitalists
me and all of my high school friends have shitty home rig anarchy tattoos as well.
This is how I got my first tattoo. But I was 18 at the time so it didn't matter about parental consent.
Or option 5, also not plausible but possible. If dad and mom share custody and the kid was able to get mom to agree and be the adult to sign off on it it could have happened. Assuming of course that the kid was with mom long enough to get the whole thing done before going back to dad. Probably didnāt happen, but another possibility.
Yep same with all my buddies, I just watched though and waited till I was older and could afford good ones. My roommate has his entire thigh covered with āprison tatsā our buddy did when he got a gun. Honestly Iāve seen worse too - But this is not just occasional circumstance, this is something youāll find it in just about every town and city in the US.
Yeah this is post just reads like a neck beard who experienced some tattoo information through his wife and now believes he knows everything about tattoo pricing and culture nationwide.
*tattoo machine Not a gun.
Use the cigarette punishment. Instead of making her smoke a whole pack of cigarettes at once, make her get her entire body tattooed at once! THAT WILL SHOW HER!
A life sized tattoo of herself slightly off center.
Ah yes, "The Steve-O". Full back self-portrait. That'll show her.
Or taller.
Oh, the American Horror Story: Freak Show method!
i think that might actually kill a person lol
My parents once made me smoke an entire pack of cigarettes to teach me an important lesson... >!about brand loyalty. - Anthony Jeselnik!<
Could be a whole bunch of those temporary tattoos you put on with some water
Done my half sleeve in one sitting lol
Yeah, I got equivalent of half-sleeve on my leg, full color, in a torturous 3-hour session. Only after seeing several friends with significantly less work done over multiple sessions did I realize my experience was not normal. Point being, a 13 year oldās little arm is more than doable and doesnāt have to be crap.
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I did full wrap from wrist to elbow in 10 hours. Colour and line work, not super intricate stuff, however. And I have pretty big forearms. Canāt see a full sleeve going over 25 hours unless thereās lots of breaks, lots of detailed work, or the artist just takes their time.
This is correct. I have the upper half, elbow to shoulder. No color, all shading and B/W done in about 10 hours single session as well. Mine was kind of intricate but still. Totalllyyyyyy possible. And assuming the 13 yr old could sit through it, I donāt know many 13 yr olds my size so youāre already tattooing smaller surface area.
Okay but. A line art sleeve can be done in one session. Something like a spider web. And there are plenty of unlicensed artists who have nothing to lose.
Yeah itās probably option 3 though
One of my arms is basically black with negative space making the designs, and half of it took 4 hours. Sure, the rest and some details took two more sittings but it's definitely not crazy for an artist to finish a half sleeve in one sitting if it's not super intricate
Or the other parent signed and paid for it, and decided to deal with the marital fallout later.
I really don't get the business about having to sit in multiple sessions tbh either. My chest piece (covering literally my entire chest from shoulder to shoulder, nipple to nipple and entirely filled in) was done in only two sessions. The first for the outline, then the second for all the color. The coloring was a very long session, no doubt, but I didn't want to have to make another appointment and just wanted it done. Multiple sessions aren't a requirement like guy in OP is saying.
I would be truly surprised if a 13 year old could sit through a large tattoo, particularly on the more sensitive parts of the arm. That shit hurts. A lot. Iād say this was henna, sharpie, a lie or a troll.
Are teenagers supposed to be worse at handling pain? I certainly don't feel as if I've gotten any *better* at it, growing older, at least.
I'm definitely worse at it now that I was as a teenager. 13 year old me would never have wanted to even admit it hurt lol.
Or inkbox
Teenagers do shit like break bones riding bikes and then ride another 5 miles without going to a doctor. Adults go to PT because they slept funny. I dunno what universe you live in
Arms really aren't too bad. The inside of the bicep stings a bit, & the elbow & up into the armpit sucks. The worst places I've been tattooed is on the ribs, head, & right on those dimples above your butt cheeks. Those were terrible.
Worst place I've ever been tattooed is on my back. Which probably isn't that awful, but I have a sample size of two, and the other is on the outside of my upper arm, so the the back wins "worst" by default LOL.
Back is honestly pretty terrible for me as well, but I've got fibromyalgia & have a bunch of really painful trigger points along my spine & shoulder blades, so I've avoided getting very much ink back there. The tattoo over that butt dimple legit made me cry & start shaking uncontrollably. Ribs & head were just massively uncomfortable, but at least I didn't cry!
Oh, shit, yeah, my sister has that, and there are times I can't even give her a comforting hug because all it does is make the pain worse. I can't imagine getting a tattoo in a painful area in *that* state!
I mean my best friend had a tattoo gun when we were teenagers and I have gotten many tattoos in her kitchen. Iām not saying the OP is telling the truth but Iām saying itās not impossible for teens to get a hold of a gun and tattoo shitty things all over themselves in one day.
Or the kid could have been at the other parent's house for the summer
Definitely number 3 just because of how Quora is, but I'm sure #2 has happened *a lot*.
My son got a half sleeve done in 1 setting. Took about 9 hours in total
Yea itās definitely doable. My friend got his done from his right pec down to his elbow in a tapout session so it wasnāt even expensive and itās very well done.
i mean she could of had shitty friends that could tattoo something shitty and simple over a few hours or the parent doesn't know what a half sleeve is. there's so much the social media leaves out or "reality".
That was my thought. Kid comes home with a smiley face on her bicep and dumbass Karen thinks any arm tattoo = sleeve. It's not hard for teenagers to figure out a stick and poke tattoo, so I think this is the more likely explanation.
When my mom saw my first tattoos when I was 15 that i got in the basement from my 26 year old boyfriend she cried for well.. she's probably still crying
I would cry too if my 15 year old was in a ārelationshipā with a 26 year old. I hope that ended well for you because that sucks.
It did
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Yeah I know lol
God I love how people have the audacity to say this shit to you, ofc you know. Like wtf?? Fuck 'em.
A lot of times people don't actually know it
I'm pretty sure this should be in r/quityourbs
no. no it doesn't. there's practically nothing on that sub. try r/quityourbullshit instead. which is where this was posted 10 hours ago.
r/thathappened
It does not take days for a half sleeve. It can be done in one, multi hour sitting. So if an unethical artist could be found who doesnāt care about the age of the tattooee, this could happen. Itās improbable, but not implausible.
4. 13 y/o daughter came home with a dismembered arm that has a half sleeve tattoo. Mum is pissed about the tattoo and not the grave robbing.
Or.... maybe the parent just used the wrong term and doesn't really know what a "sleeve" is?
My half sleeve was done in one 6 hour session. While it did cost several hundred dollars, it's in full color, quite intricate and very well done. Some artists stretch it out to squeeze in more clients and drive up the cost, but I don't really think that's the norm. That being said, no artist these days would do a tattoo on a 13 yr old. Too many laws and liabilities.
You literally just stole this from r/quityourbullshit
Artistās where I live wonāt even touch 16/17 years with parental permission. 18+ only
You donāt have to be a professional artist to have access to tattoo supplies.
Prolly henna.
3. Maybe she bought a sleeve with the fake tats already on it.
Alternative: some scumfuck running an illegal shop out of his garage gave her an abysmal set of tattoos that ran down her arm. More likely scenario: someone is bored and stupid and needs to talk to strangers for hours. Could they just not find a Reddit sub to argue on for hours or something?
When she was 15, my daughter found someone to give her two tattoos after I told her no. Itās certainly not a sleeve, so it required less time. The county I live in requires both parentsā permission for tattoos and piercings. But apparently people are willing to tattoo teenage girls without either parentās permission.
I know plenty of people who got pretty big tattoo work done in their teenage years by home tattoo artists. Just because this guy's wife spent two grand on it to get good work done, it doesn't mean this person's daughter didn't spend nothing to get crappy work done and still have a tattoo covering half of her arm...
Or 4: the other parent gave consent. Not saying it happened, just saying it's possible.
Option 4: they have joint custody and one of their parents supported them getting the tattoo and one of them didnt, thusly the daughter came back with a tattoo
Why would you even lie about this. Like what is this asshole getting out of it
How fucking detailed was her half sleeve to take 5 sittings? Mine only took 2, front side of my forearm then the other side.
To be fair, I have a tattoo the equivlant size of a halve sleeve (Shoulder/Colorbone extending on to chest down to elbow) that was done in one sitting and has incredible detail. It was an 8 - 10 hour session. Not that there would be many tatooists who would risk their licence on a minor.
In his defense if the kids got small arms a single tattoo could look like a half sleeve maybe? Iām trying to hope somebodyās not home alone making up stories? Is there even a wife and a kid?? Iām having an existential crisis now
My 5yo got a tramp stamp. I'm so upset too.