I would hope, however, that members would in general refrain from the garish expressions in body art and piercings that have seemed the ‘rage’ for the past 25 years or so. It’s not something that I think is generally becoming, and is often regretted later in life.

I know of someone whom, while she didn’t have a lot of ‘artwork’ on her person, did have the lower back tattoo pattern commonly known as the ‘tramp stamp’. She did join the Church and sometime afterwards got her Temple recommend and took out her own endowments. She was embarrassed when the lady temple worker, in performing ‘initiatory’, at first refused to do so due to her ‘garish’ artwork, and had to be advised by the temple matron that such refusal was improper (from what this ‘friend’ told me, the matron did the rite herself). We shouldn’t judge folks that got ‘inked up’ in ignorance or in a moment of poor judgment.