Should there be requisite cooling off periods before the getting of a tattoo?

I certainly think so. I added four tramp stamps to my skin before I reached the ripe old age of 20, and at 23 I regret every single one of them. Cooling off periods are recommended by plastic surgeons for breast augmentations and labiaplasty; among countless other wacky, unnecessary things people with too much money and too little esteem do to their body. Why not something utterly permanent as a tattoo?

Perhaps a month would be adequate. A temporary tattoo could give the tattooee-to-be an idea of what life with a tattoo is like. Perhaps we’d see fewer butterflies/tribal symbols/dolphins parading the streets.

Or would such restrictions impinge on our right to make compulsive choices?