{"id":72255,"date":"2023-12-05T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=72255"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:59:10","slug":"dont-judge-a-person-by-their-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2023\/12\/05\/dont-judge-a-person-by-their-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t judge a person by their ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-72255-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL.mp4\">http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">Y<\/span>ou can\u2019t judge a book by its cover and you can\u2019t judge a person by their ink.<\/p>\n<p>The stigma surrounding tattoos is on a constant decline as events like the Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival continue to normalize seeing ink in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/hire\/c\/info\/tattoos-in-the-workplace-considerations-and-policies#:~:text=Are%20workplace%20tattoos%20acceptable%3F,t%20mind%20hiring%20tattooed%20workers.\">three out of four employers<\/a> say they don\u2019t mind hiring people with tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tattoos \u2014 they don\u2019t reflect how you are as a worker or how you are as a human being,\u201d said tattoo artist Marissa Froning. \u201cJust because you like to decorate yourself and have this art on you.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72259\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72259\" src=\"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0001-scaled.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>NEW INK:<\/strong> Tattoo artist Marissa Froning sketches on her iPad before clients arrive at the Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival in the BMO Centre. (Photo by Sophia Lopez\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEven artists I was surrounded by were like, \u2018That\u2019s a job stopper,\u2019\u201d said Froning. \u201cBut I haven&#8217;t really noticed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival was held from Oct. 13-17 at the BMO Centre and invited over 650 local and international artists to the festival \u2014 really displaying the growth of tattoo normalcy in the country and around the world. For <a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/2023\/10\/11\/the-calgary-tattoo-and-arts-festival-is-back-for-its-20th-anniversary\/#:~:text=The%20Calgary%20Tattoo%20and%20Arts%20Festival%20has%20left%20an%20unforgettable,of%20tattooing%20just%20surprises%20me.\">20 years<\/a>, the festival has been an initiative to gather tattoo lovers from all places to celebrate body art.<\/p>\n<p>With it being the second time attending the festival, Froning was eager to see people getting more than just their arms tattooed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is that old tattoo viewpoint of before you get your hands done you need to have lots of like tattoos on your arms and you can&#8217;t get your neck done and all this stuff,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try not to be too harsh on that depending on the design of like a hand tattoo, just because I got my hands done really early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tattoo artist at Royal Tattoo and Atticus Tattoo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sb.inks\/\">Kuljeet Bambrah<\/a>, never thought this would be his career path two years ago after getting laid off during the pandemic. Anything black and grey realism will immediately spark his attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally anything realism that pops up I&#8217;m like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m doing it.\u2019 I don&#8217;t care what it is \u2014 it\u2019s just the process of it is very enjoyable. You got to be very patient to do something like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s like a reward at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now working at Mockingbird Tattoos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marisstattoos\/\">Froning<\/a> has grown exponentially as an artist since her first year in the industry \u2014 getting tattoos that only a <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/11\/a-tattoo-wont-hurt-your-job-prospects\">few years ago<\/a> would make a customer-facing job candidate less hireable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my first year of tattooing, I ended up getting a lot more [tattoos] and I got both my hands done and that was kind of like a big one for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve never really felt like somebody has looked out on me for the tattoos unless it&#8217;s like an older generation that has like more traditional values.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72260\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72260\" src=\"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-775x1024.jpg 775w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-768x1015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-1162x1536.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-1549x2048.jpg 1549w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231013-Tattoo-Taboos-SL-0004-scaled.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>SKETCH ART:<\/strong>\u00a0Tattoo artist Kuljeet Bambrah decorates his room at Royal Tattoo in Calgary with his own black and grey realism art. (Photo by Sophia Lopez\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although Froning hasn\u2019t been faced with tattoo taboos during her time as an artist, other tattoo artists like Bambrah don\u2019t believe the stigma has completely vanished yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a thing where neck tattoos, face tattoos, hand tattoos, anything that&#8217;s visible outside of like corporate dress code isn&#8217;t really accepted, but people still try and get them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a \u2018play with the devil\u2019 kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/tattoo-regret\">Tattoo regret<\/a> can be very common, especially among younger people. Bambrah recommends to those new to getting ink done to start small.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get a lot of first-timers,\u201d said Bambrah. \u201cSome of them go big right off the bat \u2014 start small, feel it out, see how you like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While tattoo taboos haven\u2019t stopped Froning from following her passion \u2014 a passion which also stems from the pandemic, like Bambrah \u2014 she remains aware of the luck she\u2019s had while doing what she loves. She also is grateful for events like the tattoo festival which have brought awareness to the amount of people around in the community who enjoy getting tattooed as a form of expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like, often get told that I&#8217;m really lucky that I&#8217;m in this generation of tattooing just for the reason that if I did want to branch off into something different, I would still be able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decline of tattoo stigma in the workplace continues to prevail and Froning hopes that a more relaxed approach is taken to the process of getting ink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t take it too, too seriously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s on you forever but it\u2019s not like it can\u2019t be changed or evolved into something new as you grow as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the Shorthand version <a href=\"https:\/\/preview.shorthand.com\/88Ny18T8C4KBDPsP\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>You can\u2019t judge a book by its cover and you can\u2019t judge a person by their ink. The stigma surrounding tattoos is on a constant decline as events like the Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2023\/12\/05\/dont-judge-a-person-by-their-ink\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t judge a person by their ink\">[ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":72262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S4 Tattoo Taboos SL","footnotes":""},"categories":[1590,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"category-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73459,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255\/revisions\/73459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}