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Tattoo removal business booming as inked teens grow up
The Vintage News ^ | 10/13/14

Posted on 10/16/2014 6:25:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

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Did the APA designate a DSM-IV code for "tattoo regret"?
1 posted on 10/16/2014 6:25:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Well I hope the CDC set some money aside to study the phenomena of teen stupidity regret.


2 posted on 10/16/2014 6:27:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: Impala64ssa

I have never seen a tattoo I thought was attractive. Or a nose ring. Or piercings beyond one in each ear (and I do not mean those hideous stretched out loops).


3 posted on 10/16/2014 6:30:06 PM PDT by Penny 4 Thoughts
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To: Impala64ssa

The “DUH” moment!


4 posted on 10/16/2014 6:32:43 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: Impala64ssa

SNL predicted this.

https://screen.yahoo.com/turlingtons-lower-back-tattoo-remover-000000691.html


5 posted on 10/16/2014 6:37:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Why anyone would CHOOSE to look like they have a skin condition is beyond me.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 6:43:48 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Linux rocks. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Impala64ssa
must be a MILLION aging tramp-stamps out there...
7 posted on 10/16/2014 6:43:48 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Impala64ssa

I’ve read that some of the very same tattoo shops are offering removal treatment and making much more money.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 6:43:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Penny 4 Thoughts

I actually find a small nose stud to be very sexy on the right lady.


9 posted on 10/16/2014 6:49:04 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I have a friend with two daughters. One got a tattoo, the other commented, “Tattoos are just to help identify the strippers from the patrons.” Guess which one is going to college.


10 posted on 10/16/2014 7:00:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Impala64ssa

My beautiful 22 year old niece just got a horrid green skull tattooed on her chest. I’m sick about it. She has a lot of them. She’s broke, doesn’t own a car, but she manages to get herself tattooed all over. Pathetic. And no, she’s NOT on government assistance of any kind.


11 posted on 10/16/2014 7:04:20 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Impala64ssa

In college many people I know got large, childish tattoos that have dated abysmally - it takes a really stupid person to permanently inscribe a sitcom or movie catchphrase or a cartoon character (especially one of recent vintage) on their body.


12 posted on 10/16/2014 7:04:52 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Just think about those poor saps that got
“Obama” tattoos...

Nope, just can’t get any sympathy going,
and to think they probably paid for it
with an EBT card.


13 posted on 10/16/2014 7:08:12 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Wow, who’d thunk all those flowers, unicorns, butterflies, and creepy skeletons wouldn’t fit a 30 year old’s fashion style.


14 posted on 10/16/2014 7:08:16 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Impala64ssa

In the American southwest, the tattoo removal industry is booming but not just for cosmetic reasons, but to hide previous affiliation with gangs.


16 posted on 10/16/2014 7:14:03 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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It wasn't only teens - I know more than a few parents who thought they could take a few years off by getting a tattoo, as well.

Nothing will make a cool trend go cold faster.

17 posted on 10/16/2014 7:14:55 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Impala64ssa

I’m of two minds about tattoos.

Some of them (rarely) are really special art. But they are permanent, and frankly, they often look like disfigurements. A lot of times I look at people who have them and my first impression is that the person has a disfiguring mole or mark. It’s only when I get closer that I realize it’s ink, and it does nothing for their overall appearance.

Tattoos do not enhance. They hide, and disfigure.


18 posted on 10/16/2014 7:25:03 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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19 posted on 10/16/2014 7:29:44 PM PDT by John W (Autumn of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: Impala64ssa

Before and after pics from the Toronto clinic mentioned in the article, Precision Laser Tattoo Removal. The procedure does not always remove all the ink.

20 posted on 10/16/2014 7:34:37 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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