Tattoos are becoming more and more popular, especially for today’s high school and college students. Students may cover them up, but each and every tattoo has a meaning. Each tattoo has a story behind it. Most students choose to have their tattoos done professionally. Others have done their own tattoos or had a friend tattoo them. As this controversy unfolds the truth is now uncovered.

The process of getting a tattoo is nothing to be taken lightly. Usually, tattoos are painful. However, the pain is different for each person. Those with a high pain tolerance may feel as if there is only an annoying buzzing of the needle and a feeling of a pin scraping across the skin. Others may feel tremendous pain. Location of the tattoo on the body also plays a factor in painfulness.