Some want to escape from the cycle of violence, and for them the first step in doing so is to get rid of their tattoos.
Each year, about 75 Oakland residents get the markings removed through a county program that uses laser treatments. Countywide, about 225 enter the program. In some cases, it can take more than a year to completely remove a tattoo.
They drove the 34 miles from Grantsville to Salt Lake City to get the needlework, most of them people who had never considered a tattoo.
“We went to get the tattoos right after the funeral,” said Prince’s older brother Donny, “and every shop we went to we had to wait. There was someone getting a tattoo for Troy.”
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Prince’s sudden death, at the age of 19, shocked the small, rural town of Grantsville. Within an hour of his death, some 30 kids were in the Princes’ home, and kids continued to gather in the Princes’ yard for days afterward. Later, the town would hold a group counseling session at City Hall for the youth.
“He was just a guy everybody wanted to be around,” said Les Hamilton, who coached Grantsville High’s football teams the past two seasons.
As is the case in small towns, rumors spread like wildfire after Prince’s inexplicable death — heroin overdose, anti-depressant overdose, an allergic reaction and, one out of left field, an automobile wreck. The spate of recent overdoses among Utah teens probably helped fuel the drug rumors. The speculation was heightened when the autopsy came back inconclusive. The toxicology report won’t be completed for two months.
All anyone knows for certain is that the charismatic kid who was tearing up the football field en route to all-state honors and the 3A state championship game two years ago is gone. His ashes are enclosed in an urn in the family room of the Prince home, next to another urn that contains his father’s remains.
On July 13, Prince, who turned to finish carpentry after an aborted attempt at college last fall, did not wake up in time to go to work. His
mother Julia went to check on him. She peeked into his room and realized something was wrong. She ran to get Prince’s older sister, Christin, a former hospice nurse.
Christin found her brother on the couch, unconscious, his eyes rolled back into his head, occasionally gasping for air. She picked up his cell phone, which was lying on the floor, and called 911. When she got off the phone, Troy wasn’t breathing anymore. She screamed his name and slapped his face, hoping it would revive him, then pulled him off the couch onto the floor and started CPR.
“The CPR was working at first,” said Christin. “I could see his chest raising. I couldn’t get a heartbeat, but my heart was making my body shake so I couldn’t detect his. I could hear tiny gasps for air. As soon as the emergency personnel came in the house, his chest quit rising.”
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The silver, pencil-style tin impressed most users. It contains stencils, a brush and coloured paints, but there were some complaints about tattoos that wouldn’t stick to the skin. A youth-oriented package and good value for a silly girls’ night in
Stephanie: “The whole thing looked very teenage. Pretty, girlie designs. Nothing unusual.”
Cathy: “Impressive packaging doesn’t make up for the shoddy tattoos - they rip and tear and won’t stick on your skin. The paints are ace.”
Back then, only veterans and bikers had tattoos. Now, they’re commonplace, and they’re referred to as “body art.”
I knew I had reached an experiential gulf with this issue (that’s code for “getting old”) when one of my Deseret Morning News colleagues was marveling over the “body art” that many of the players in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament were sporting.
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Except for the before-mentioned bikers and service members, most of the tattooed people in my experience were people I had encountered as a police and courts reporter. It’s kind of hard to bring a fuddy- duddy like me around to thinking of tattooed convicts as people with “body art.” For me, it’s an entry on the “distinguishing mark or tattoo” line on the jail booking sheet.
My children tell me that I need to “get over” my aversion to tattoos. They’re probably right. Tattoos are everywhere. I was surprised how many Olympic athletes competing in Athens had tattoos on their backs, shoulders and even thighs.
It’s hard to imagine an Olympic athlete with love handles or flabby thighs, but let’s face it, time has a funny way of altering the human body. We can’t fight gravity. And for women, the rigors of childbearing tend to do all kinds of curious things to the body. I shudder to think what a tattoo on the midsection obtained in college would look like at the 30th class reunion.
I used to think that a pert 20-something with a tattoo would rue the day when he or she became a 30-something looking for a job. What 50-something human resources person would take such a person all that seriously? Then again, the 30-somethings will someday become the 50- somethings, and they probably won’t have such hang-ups about “body art.”
The safest route — for a lot of reasons — is not to get a tattoo. Although laser treatments can go a long way to erase old lovers’ names committed to ink, a faint trace of the tattoo will remain. So the decision to get a tattoo shouldn’t be entered into lightly. Ask yourself, will you want your high school prom date’s name on your behind 10 years from now?
The second best course is to get a tattoo in a discreet place. But again, getting a tattoo anywhere carries certain risks, according to the Mayo Clinic. These range from allergic reactions and skin infections to blood diseases such as hepatitis C, HIV, tetanus, tuberculosis and hepatitis B.
During the first months of a two-year apprenticeship, Parker honed her skills at the first — learning to clean her shop and sterilize equipment. She couldn’t tattoo until she demonstrated competence as an artist and knowledge of basic cleanliness.
“You just can’t make a mistake,” said Parker, owner of Micah’s Twisted Tattoo Co. in Layton. The reasons: risk to reputation and the health and safety of a customer.
Parker says she prides herself on being a tattoo artist who is highly recommended. She’s proud of the standard she has set for her shop and wants others to do the same.
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On Wednesday, Parker will recommend to Davis County several safety rules she follows in her business during a public hearing on proposed regulations for “body art” businesses, including tattoo and piercing shops.
The regulations include annual permitting and fees, sanitation standards and record-keeping requirements.