In 2020 yous would have thought that having a tattoo wouldn't bear upon your chances of getting a job, but even now there are nevertheless jobs that will think twice about hiring someone who has tattoos.

At the moment in the Britain, at that place is currently no workplace equality measures to terminate employers basing their recruitment decisions on whether or not you have tattoos, except in the case of religious markings.

Photos taken by Stacey Whelan & Raychel Maughan.

This ways that it is possible for companies to not hire you lot if they don't corroborate of the tattoos you have, in some cases they tin even fire existing employees.

Raychel Maughan, a tattoo artist based in Newcastle and has been tattooing for nine years, said: "Jobs are getting where if you do have tattoos on your arm, they don't mind.

"I can see why they would still mind if information technology'south similar a naked lass or like a dildo, or something that you shouldn't really see or have tattooed on yous anyway. Nazi symbols and that."

Photo taken by Stacey Whelan.

Most people would agree that when growing upwardly we've been taught that getting tattoos would finish united states of america beingness able to get jobs in certain fields, similar teachers, doctors and lawyers.

As someone who has virtually of their torso covered in tattoos, I've always stayed abroad from getting job stopper tattoos, these are tattoos that are on your hands, neck or face. But that hasn't stopped past employers maxim to either wear bandages or long sleeve t-shirts to cover up tattoos on my arm – this being in a retail job.

But why practise jobs notwithstanding have a problem with people having tattoos? Many have argued that having tattoos is seen as unprofessional, that they could scare abroad potential customers or that it simply isn't the image they want for their company.

A written report conducted by YouGov in 2015, institute that 56% of people aged over sixty would think less positively of someone who had a big tattoo. However, they also constitute that merely 17% of people aged between xviii and 24 would think this way.

The video clip beneath is Philip Aitcheson'south feel on having a chore with tattoos and whether he has experienced whatever difficulties.

Even if y'all become a tattoo it'southward ever possible to cover information technology up, except if it's a chore stopper tattoo. There are even tattoo studios that will refuse to tattoo a job stopper on you lot if yous don't have any other tattoos on you, and will ask to see your other tattoos earlier accepting the booking.

Raychel spoke nearly her opinion on studios doing this: "I'grand worse than that, even if they haven't got a job, I desire to know what job they've got, how long they've had it, how erstwhile they are.

"I tattooed a lad recently, and I simply did his mitt considering I think he was like mid-twenties, but he was similar a builder or bricklayer or something, and they don't care."

Some people might take chosen to go a tattoo on their hand or neck, because when they article of clothing a long-sleeved t-shirt it can look similar they take more tattoos. This way is a lot cheaper, but past getting chore stopper tattoos have they risked their chances of getting a chore?

Raychel continued: "Don't get them, particularly if you don't know what you've doing and you haven't got a job, you haven't got your pes your pes in a good solid career where they don't care about it, don't get information technology.

"Crusade it's just aesthetic and like, who cares anyhow."

Task stopper tattoos aren't the only problem that employers detect; they also have a trouble with offensive tattoos. It'south understandable if tattoos are offensive or discriminatory will affect your chances of getting a job.

Photograph taken by Stacey Whelan. Tattoo past Iris Lys.

Nevertheless, at present there is a growth in people getting what is seen every bit kinky tattoos. Sad Amish, a French tattoo creative person who specialises in tattooing explicit/sexual images of mainly women, has clients who have travelled across the globe just to get one of his designs tattooed on them.

Raychel said: "I've tattooed nipples, I dunno if that's just down to personal preference but to me, nipples aren't offensive. I mean obviously if the nipples are out and something else is being washed to the nipple, then yes.

"It'south as offensive as someone breastfeeding on the street, do you know what I mean?"

Anybody knows that tattoos are definitely becoming more mainstream, especially with younger people.

1 of the ways you lot can see this is due to the growth of tattoo conventions coming to local areas, and the amount of tattoo artists and visitors they concenter. The Big N Tattoo Convention in Newcastle attracts over 300 tattoo artists each yr.

Photograph taken by Raychel Maughan.

But this growth means there has also been a lot more tattoos that are getting covered upwardly, due to them not looking correct or they merely don't want them anymore.

Raychel commented on the amount of coverups the studio she works in has to exercise: "I would say generally in this store cover ups are maybe betwixt xxx and xl pct of everyone's workload, at to the lowest degree. But yous're talking like fiddling ones or even ones people take had since the eighties."

Even so, some people take been getting coverups because they just aren't advisable for work. Shows similar Tattoo Fixers have many people going on the show with inappropriate tattoos that they've gotten off a holiday or had for year, just now realise they need covering up due to regretting them.

So, before getting a tattoo should people retrieve nearly what'due south best for their career or get something because it'southward their trunk, and it's what they actually want done?