Don't Regret It Later Get Your First Tattoo At 99 Years old

99-year-old Mimi Rosenthal swapped the support of her Winnie Walker for the comfort of a black leather chair at Requiem Body Art in Spring Hill, Fla.Rosenthal, now 101, did not always like tattoos. Blame it on the generational divide: according to Life magazine, only 6 percent of the population had a tattoo in 1936 -- a number that has more than tripled since. When her granddaughter Meredith got her first tattoo at 17, Rosenthal, then 85, did not approve.

58, got hers while on a vacation with her son Yoki in Hawaii. “Everyone on the wait staff had visible tattoos, and when our waitress came to our table, I asked where on the island we could go to get one,” Schoenbrun said.“My son looked at me and said, you’re going to let me get a tattoo?" she recalls. "And I said, this isn’t for you -- it’s for me.”

Schoenbrun's son, 16 at the time, got the Chinese symbol for dream and then-50-year-old Schoenbrun got a rurbrum lily, also known as a stargazer. “It is something that always brought me happiness and a feeling of calm,” she explained.An executive at an international nonprofit, Schoenbrun said that her tattoo isn’t visible at work and she isn't disclosing its location, “not because it is risqué, but rather it is nobody’s business.”

Getting a tattoo later in life definitely has its advantages: those who do so are unlikely to be told that they’ll regret it when they’re older, and the tattoos are less likely to fade or migrate within their lifetimes.