So....yer cool with taking kid (under 18, or this post wouldn't be here and you wouldn't have to show up to get it done)...but you're pissed off because the artist tried to talk the kid out of it?  Someone walks into my shop looking for a job with tattoed fingers...nope, sorry, we're professionals here...when I've got a 20 million dollar a year client walking through checking out the operation and sees some dipshit with inked up fingers.   Yeah, that's not gonna end well.  .... personality needs to come from the inside...if you have to make your ink visible to everyone to make you feel better and yer grown up...fine.....if you're a stupid kid,, the person encouraging it is a tool

Good job dude....instead of mentoring the youngun' and raising them as a productive member of society,  you
helped hem get a tat,  you've eliminated half of their job market while helping them "express" themselves.

FYI, I have no tattoes and no desire to get any.  Not talking shit to people that have them, but getting them before your brain has developed enough to understand why not to get them in certain places seems detrimental to life in the future.

I see this whole thing different-
Its all about customer service, and ONLY customer service. Always do what the customer wants, as a business owner myself, the customer is always right, whether I think they wrong or right is irrelevent, they are payin the bill. I have advised the client in one way or another, and even argued with an engineer or 2, but a bad attitude gets you nowhere in business.

As far as the finger tats, I wouldn't do it myself, (get them), but to each there own.
These kids make chioces, not all are good choices...

Daniel

tattoos on your hands ,neck , face ect. are for rockstars ,gang members and tattoo artist that can still make a living ..IMHO ...i have ink...and when i was younger i wanted some stupid tattoos but luckly the artist i went to refused to do them.."lucky me " evan people with tattoos frown on tattoos like this...and it dose effect employment !!
just my 02

Everything you do builds your reputation, good and bad. If a parent signed a consent form so their 16 year old could get tattooed would that be right? I think Gary did the right thing, he recommended they not do this and when they insisted he helped them out.

As for this moron getting their feelings hurt by some foul language in a tattoo shop maybe they shouldn't be getting a tattoo. I have seen and heard things in local shops that would make some bikers blush. This idiot should get over theirself.

     didnt call her a stupid teenager just said u young people today getting tattooed on ur hands without one other visable tattoo are fuckin stupid and if u were my sister id send u home  thats what i get for trying to stress how much tats can effect hiw ur looked at