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Article: Permanent milestones; From tweens to seniors, tattoos have gone mainstream. Tats that commemorate the birth of a child are especially popular these days.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Byline: KRISTIN TILLOTSON; STAFF WRITER
When Millie Gignac walked into A-1 Tattoo Co. on Robert Street in St. Paul one day last fall to choose a rose design from the look book for her first tattoo, she doesn't recall feeling nervous.
"The man who was going to do it looked a little surprised," she said. "But a group of guys who walked in later looked at me and gave a big thumbs-up."
Gignac, of Eagan, is 89. Her interest in tattoos might have seemed remarkable even 10 years ago, but no more.
What used to be a symbol of hard-life rebellion for sailors, inmates and bikers became a niche urban-hipster fad in the 1980s. Since then, it has ...