AN INKED-UP dad has been slammed by trolls after giving his son a chest full of tattoos.
Christian is no stranger to etchings himself, with his torso virtually entirely covered by different designs.
And his love of tattoos has extended to his son as well, as he explained in a video on his Instagram page.
“My son wanted tattoos like me,” he captioned the video.
He was responding to one troll who had called him a bad influence, and had added: “Tattoos are trashy. Stop forcing this on kids!”
And over the top of the clip, which showed him applying temporary tattoos to his little boy, he wrote: “Well my son loves my tattoos.
“He draws on himself because he looks up to me and I try to be someone worth looking up to.
“My tattoos are a reflection of my life and what I love.”
He added that tattoos “don’t make someone a bad person”, and his son is well aware that he should never “judge a person based on what they look like”.
“Because there’s nothing trashy about tattoos,” he concluded.
“I may not look like the average father but I’m trying my best.”
And the majority of people in the comments section were quick to praise Christian for hitting back at trolls.
“10/10 on parenting – that boy’s smile says it all!!!” one wrote.
“This looks to me like a loving, healthy father/son relationship,” another added.
“Tattoos do not make or break a person. It’s love, caring and guidance.
Tattoos don’t make someone a bad person
Christian Shearhod
“Dad is spending time with his son which is more than can be said for many other fathers – with or without tattoos.
“Good for you Dad!”
“‘Stop forcing this on kids!!’ a third said.
“The happiest looking kid you’ve ever seen.”
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest tattoos on the arm of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum.
The mummy, known as Gebelein Man A, pushes back evidence of figurative tattoos by 1,000 years.
The oldest tattoos were once thought to belong to a South American Chinchorro mummy who had a moustache-like design inked on his face.
It was initially thought he died in 4,000BC but in 2015 researchers found he is in fact younger than 5,200-year-old frozen mummy Ötzi the Iceman.
Ötzi was found by walkers preserved in a glacier on the Italy-Austria border in 1991.
Imaging using various wavelengths revealed a total of 61 tattoos: Geometric designs of dots, crosses and parallel lines.
Ötzi would have done lots of walking im the Alps and it is thought the tattoos may have been a kind of acupuncture to ease joint pains.
There is evidence of tattooing on mummies found in the Taklamakan Desert in China dating from 1,200 BC.
Modern tattoos of the kind sported by David Beckham are thought to have developed in Polynesian cultures over centuries.
The name comes from the phrase tatatau, meaning to hit or strike, which the British sailor James Cook heard when he reached Tahiti in 1769.
“Wish our fake tattoos was this cool when we were younger,” someone else said.
“Most of us loved temporary tattoos as kid,” another wrote.
“They just have way cooler ones now.”
“He’s smiling and happy that’s all that matters,” someone else added.
“They’re temporary y’all,” another sighed.
As someone else wrote: “So stinking cute.
“My little girl draws on her arms to look like me – definitely goes to show how much they love us and look up to us.”
