Perhaps a well-trained practioner of cosmetic tattoos would do better work, but I still think it should be outlawed.
Besides, as Ian Fleming wrote, "all cats are gray in the dark."
Posted on 07/03/2004 1:59:49 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers yesterday that it is investigating side-effects associated with a popular brand of ink used to perform tattooing of lips and eyes. The FDA said it has reports of more than 50 adverse reactions to certain shades of Premier Pigment brand ink.
They include blistering, swelling, cracking and peeling skin around lips and eyes that, in some cases, caused serious disfigurement and difficulty in eating and talking, federal regulators said.
The suspect inks are made by American Institute of Intradermal Cosmetics based in Arlington, Tex.
Tattooing lips??
Yeah, permanent "make-up". This was a big thing a handful of years ago. They do eyeliner, lipstick, maybe blush.
Shame. I thought it was a pretty nifty idea. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) I'm a big wuss so I never get around to doing this kind of thing.
Well, count it as a blessing, besides the money saved in not doing it.
Money saved...? have you seen the price of make-up....
Shephard Smith to the white courtesy phone.....
Ahhh.... you always see the glass half full. lol
I had a lady friend who did this. She looked liked a Barbi doll from about a meter away, but up close it was kind of strange. Especially the eyebrows - they were kind of like two strokes from a magic marker.
"She looked liked a Barbi doll from about a meter away, but up close it was kind of strange."
Was it Paul Dirac or Wolfgang Pauli (both physicists) who claimed that there must be an optimal distance for appreciating [feminine] beauty, since both at zero distance and at infinity one couldn't see anything?
All of the tattoos I've had were accidental.
I call them scars.
(Am I the only Navy feller who never even considered getting one?!)
Perhaps a well-trained practioner of cosmetic tattoos would do better work, but I still think it should be outlawed.
Besides, as Ian Fleming wrote, "all cats are gray in the dark."
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