Dad faces criticism after covering son's body in tattoos

Los Angeles, California - Christian Shearhod, a social media influencer and school teacher from LA, has faced constant criticism for his impressive set of tattoos. When his five-year-old son wanted one, though, he obliged.

Christian Shearhod faced criticism after giving his son temporary tattoos.
Christian Shearhod faced criticism after giving his son temporary tattoos.  © Collage: Screenshots/Instagram/@mr.shearhod

Spearhod has an incredibly impressive following on social media, with more than 200K followers on his Instagram page and 1.2M on his TikTok. With fame comes blame, though, and @Mr.Shearhod is no exception.

Recently, after receiving a particularly intense smattering of online abuse due to his extensive set of tattoos, Shearhod dropped a clip that instantly had the internet in an uproar.

Replying to a comment that read, "Bad influence. Tattoos are trashy, stop forcing this on kids!" he posted a video of his son getting several temporary tats, captioned, "my son wanted tattoos like me."

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The video showed a variety of temporary tattoos being applied to his five-year-old son, who is visibly happy and clearly wants to look more like his loving dad. Yet, despite the child's clear joy over his dad's affectionate and fun-loving nature, some commenters couldn't help themselves but be negative. One particularly brutal person said, "CPS should step in. You are a terrible father SAD."

Imprinted over the top of the video, though, are a series of sentences replying to the haters, starting with the simple statement, "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," said Christian Spearhod, "my tattoos are a reflection of my life and what I love."

"Tattoos don't make someone a bad person, and my son knows not to judge a person based on what they look like because there's nothing trashy about tattoos. I may not look like the average father, but I'm trying my best."

Cover photo: Collage: Screenshots/Instagram/@mr.shearhod

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