Posted on 11/19/2011 8:16:54 AM PST by Excellence
Depicts the use of "paramedic camouflage" to cover tatoos. Didn't even know they still made the stuff, but I used to use it to cover hideous scars years ago. This young man's plight is a sad one, although he did it to himself and has no-one to blame but himself. He will regret this as he gets older.
To you and me, but it's probably as cool to that kid as his pants riding halfway down his butt with his underwear showing.
And to think my father used to think I looked like a slob wearing peasant tops and boys' 501 jeans. I would consider that high fashion nowadays.
Well there ya go, there is a job for even the most disturbed freak.
Keep resisting!
I did what she did when I was young. Wish I hadn’t.
Kids really appreciate when parents are adamant about protecting them.
“I wish I had a dollar for every time he told me and the kids how much he regretted doing this...”
I had an interesting conversation with my kids over tattoos and piercings. I told them that what is “in fashion” right now, won’t be in ten years or so. My daughter said, “I don’t know Mom”... so I pulled out my college pictures (from the 80’s). Their was me with HUGE mullet style hair and lightening bolts on the side. A blend of Sheena Easton and Prince! Well, they started laughing hysterically and I told them that this was “the cool hair-do” of my time. The difference, however, is I was able to change my hair when the style changed. With tats and piercings... you are stuck with it. I asked them, “How silly would I look right now if I HAD to wear the same hairstyle?” Believe me... I made my point!
Double piercing? I have triple piercings in my ears. Yea so I was a teen in the 1980’s it was big then.
Take heart. Today tattoos can be removed by laser.
It isn’t anything anyone would care about. lol I have it on my shoulder so I decide if it shows or not. I did it for me.
I agree with you.I have no tattoos and have always thought that a a woman they look particularly bad.I think there are going to be a lot of when when they get older that are really really disappointed in what gravity will do to those cute little tattoos they have.I am probably the only biker chick out there that has no tattoos.Neither Dh or I could ever decide there was something we could live with forever and then once older decided we were glad we never had any.
“People who get piercings might as well put a big stamp across their forehead that says, “I’M UNEMPLOYABLE.”
Not at IBM. I see people walking the halls that look like a traveling junkyard. There’s even one kid with big hoop earring INSIDE his earlobes. He looks like a freakin’ Ubangi from some 30’s National Geographic film.
Likewise, the cost to have a tattoo removed varies from the local chick in a booth at the mall, to some well-known Mayo-clinic plastic surgeon, written up in the New England Journal of Medicine.
One thing appears fairly consistent: having a tattoo removed is far more expensive than the tat's original cost [usually by a factor of 10 to 20], i.e., if you paid $300 for it, it'll cost you 3 to $4,000 to have it off. It can take many laser sessions, depending on size and color of inks.
Just be careful. Today's fad, is tomorrow's embarrassment. Ten years ago a Pokemon character peeking over your collar was way cool....today it's just plain stupid. "Choose wisely", as the knight said in Raiders III; but in my books, they have all "chosen poorly".
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