Maybe Popeye the Sailor Man...
Posted on 02/27/2023 7:04:16 AM PST by grundle
NEW YORK — In May 2021, Claudia Mangione got a tattoo of a match on her rib cage. Ephemeral, the studio that tattooed her, had just opened in Brooklyn, and its draw was a trademarked tattoo ink that was advertised as “made to fade” nine to 15 months after application.
Not so for Mangione, 25. The crisp line drawing “looks like a spatula now,” she said almost 22 months later.
For some customers, the company’s tattoos have proved less ephemeral than they had hoped. Nearly two years after the startup opened its studio to a flurry of articles, including one in The New York Times, some early customers have congregated on Reddit and TikTok to bemoan tattoos that have lasted beyond 15 months. Several shared their regrets in an article published in The San Francisco Chronicle in November.
From the start, Ephemeral’s waiver included warnings that “the exact amount of time that the tattoo will last may be shorter or longer” than nine to 15 months, and that the tattooing process “might leave individuals with permanent marks.”
But the company’s public-facing descriptions of the tattoos’ fade times have shifted. The website once said the tattoos would be “gone in a year” — despite the caveat in the waivers — but that language no longer exists. As of Friday, the tagline reads: “Real tattoos, made to fade.”
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Imagine how pissed off those people are right now who got a Biden/Harris 2020 tattoo a year before the election. LOL.
Suckers!
Here’s your sign!
They just haven’t waited long enough. Another century or two should do it.
St. Peter was heard to be muttering a number of WTF’s at the pearly gates.
“So the body the Lord provided for you wasn’t good enough, eh? Next!”
Maybe Popeye the Sailor Man...
They could always get a cover-up, which will be four times as big, and 10 times as dark.
In the last school I worked in (some former gang members) students had a chance to have their tattoos removed for free - with community service as payment - these were young people, 16-18 years old - and the wait was almost a year. The process to remove tattoos is very painful, I was told, and involves layers and layers of skin, involves numerous laser treatments as the ink penetrates very deep.
Best course of action, of course, is NOT to get a tattoo in the first place - kids under 18 need parent permission and I saw plenty of parents that got their young kids tattoos as a birthday present - they’d come to school to show it off.
Better to get the kid a sticker that looks like a tattoo that really does wash off.
For temporary tattoos, stick with Henna.
My son got a henna tatoo. He had a terrible reaction and will keep the scar forever.
Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
-The Who
Some folks have an allergy to Henna.
It’s best to start out with a very small tattoo to gauge one’s sensitivity, but most people get caught up in the festive moment and just let it happen.
Hopefully, your son’s scar is not someplace too obvious.
I used to know a lady who was caught in an explosion and fire while in her mid twenties. Any part of her body not covered by her tee shirt and shorts was burned to one degree or another. Tired of seeing the line that the sleeves of her tee shirt had left on her upper arms, she she started looking into the idea of having a tattoo that could help blend the transition from her pigmented skin to the skin that had had the pigment burned out. She searched well into her 60s, but could never find someone who even claimed to possess the skill to do so. Instead, when necessary, she would make do with deftly applied makeup. Had she found such an individual, if it were even possible to do, it would have improved her appearance.
On the whole though, your comment was spot on.
I have a similar line on my neck but it is probably worse for a woman.
The pigmentation loss was actually the least of her injuries. But as she says, “...at least I’ve got my fingers, toes, ears and nose.”
It took her a long time to heal physically. A lot of grafts on her legs. Lost her husband to that explosion yet still managed to raise to fine children...she is one tough lady!
So glad it was just a scar. It was a Superman on the shoulder. We celebrated my daughter’s birthday, and her brother at 41 no more tattoos.
So glad it was just a scar. It was a Superman on the shoulder. We celebrated my daughter’s birthday, and her brother at 41 no more tattoos.
The problem is there are no standards for ink, depth etc. so to get one removed by laser is a crapshoot. Plus certain colors are easier to remove the others. I had a 2” tattoo and went to a dermatologist who recommended cutting it out vs a laser. Had two sessions for a total of $500 and he said laser for the tattoo would have run me about $2,000. Imagine the cost of a large tattoo.
I got stepdaughter some henna markers a couple years back. She thought they were cool beans.
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