User post: Tattoos -- When is enough, enough?

For many young people and the older too, Tommy Lee or David Beckham for example, have embarked on the journey to color their skin in with colorful markings and sayings. What started as a right of passage, in my day anyways, has turned into a mass of over-inking. What made you want to tattoo that onto your skin and then keep going and going and going? A single rose on the wrist or a chain around the ankle has turned into full arm, back or body art. Yes, it is art but what happened to a canvas painted and hung on your wall?

I ask also, who is bringing this boy or girl home to meet mom or dear ole dad, my mother would die if I brought home Benji Madden with all of his markings. My husband has a huge scorpion on his back shoulder and I have a flower on my ankle but is this the new obsession of youth? Are celebrities and their tattoo obsessions influencing children to grow up and do the same thing? Is this something you want to see your children embark upon forever, inking their bodies with one tattoo after another? Many celebrities do not want to be thought of as role models but many are. I have to ask when is enough, enough?