One thing that people who don't know about are the allergies that a tattoo can cause. Many people think that allergies will come after being related, but this is not true. Allergies will appear after months or even years of you may have allergies. Your skin is pierced 50 to 3,000 times per minute by the tattoo machine when you get a tattoo. Yes, it's true that more women get tattoos than men, but it's also true that women remove them because they get tattoos on their boyfriends and they end up breaking.