Face Tattoos Look Great Until You Need a Job

I just saw someone with face tattoos, stars actually, and they were tasteful and well done.

That said, I have never been able to wrap my head around the decision to tattoo your face or your neck, and it has nothing to do with being anti-tattoo. I have a lot of ink myself. This is strictly about the professional reality of that choice.

Unless you are an artist, a performer, or someone who has fully committed to a career path that will never require you to sit in a corporate office or apply for a city job, you are essentially closing a lot of doors permanently. Face and neck tattoos in a traditional professional environment are still a hard stop for a lot of hiring managers, and that is just the reality of where things stand right now regardless of how the culture is shifting.

Everyone has the right to do what they want with their own body. That is not even a debate. But getting work done on your face requires a level of certainty about your future that most people honestly cannot guarantee. You have to be locked in on your path, confident it will never require you to walk into a boardroom or a government office and be taken seriously on first appearance alone.

The tattoos I saw today looked great. The artist did solid work. I just look at something like that and think about all the variables that have to line up for that decision to never come back and bite you. Most people are not in a position where they can say with certainty that none of those variables will ever matter.