Can I remove hers?
Posted on 10/16/2014 6:25:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The year is 2001. Eighteen-year-old Rees Barnett impulsively walks into a tattoo parlour and picks the trendiest designs off the wall display: a tribal arm band and a shoulder tribal tattoo. But over the years, both those symbols quickly went from cool to cliché, leaving Barnett with tattoo regret. “Unfortunately, I can’t blame it on booze,” he said. “[It's] one of those bad decisions that you wake up and realize, oh crap, I’m stuck with these.”
Now, at age 32, the pension fund analyst is erasing this part of his past at Precision Laser Tattoo Removal in Toronto. A technician zaps his two tattoos with a laser while Barnett endures much more pain than when he got inked. “It almost feels like you’re getting electrocuted, pinched all at once and times that by 10.” There’s also the painful price tag. In total, he’ll spend an about $5,000 on multiple treatments over the course of about a year. The original tattoos cost him around $400. Barnett says it’s worth it. “It’ll just be nice to think of the tattoos not being there, if I’m going swimming, if I wear a short-sleeved shirt to a company outing.”
People like Barnett are fuelling a booming tattoo removal industry. Tattoos have gone from being something you get in prison or the army to a popular fashion statement. And what’s fashionable one decade may appear horribly outdated in the next.
“I went in thinking a butterfly would be a sweet, feminine tattoo that I wouldn’t regret,” said 31-year-old Dominique Farr as she pulled back her hair to reveal the fading butterfly on her back she got when she was 17. The real estate agent has already endured 10 treatments at Precision Laser to nix it. “It takes away from my fashion sense and it’s just tacky,” she said. “I don’t like it anymore.”
OOOhhhhhhhhhh...that means that there are a million aging tramps out there...
Hope they don't ever need an epidural...most medical people won't inject through a tat, not knowing the substance of the "ink".
Can I remove hers?
pretty much...
Completely agree.
My Russian wife had her eyebrows tattooed before I met her. It was pretty common where she's from but once she immigrated to the U.S., she really felt insecure about them.
Long story short, I spent $1200 getting them removed. I'll give the dermatologist some credit though. She did a perfect job. Not a trace of her old tats and her natural eyebrows grew back as well. I was impressed.
Except for the fact that the "anti gunners" want to make owning guns illegal, banned by the federal government, while not one of the posters here indicated that he wants to make tattoos illegal. That's a huge difference, and if you polled conservatives on the question, I bet you would find strong agreement.
Or as Jimmy Buffett says:
A Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling.
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