Sorry to drag up a realy old topic.
Around my area you can get tattoos under 18, but you have to have parental consent, and I also think your parent has to be with you. Or you could be stupid and try to use a homemade tattoo gun and do it yourself like my friend Goose, but I don't recomened any of you doing that.
Hmm, I can't really describe how tattoos are in my family, but my dad would never agree to me getting one even though he has two.
I really want to get tattoos when i'm older though. I have a few planned out and they all have deep meaning to me. The first one i'd like to get done would be the quote 'It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live', the intials APWBD underneath it, maybe have stars incorpatrated with it as well, and i want this on my left wrist. I also want to get cherries tattooed on my right ankle, i know it's kinda sterotypical and a bit un-original, but it has meaning to me, so every one else can bugger off.

There are a few others I want, but aren't completly planned out yet. Thankfully I still have a few years before I can even get a tattoo, so I have time to think.
I've also been told I should be a tattoo artist by numerous people, I think it'd be a cool job, but i'm not really sure if it's for me, but we shall see what the future brings.