Posted on 09/08/2013 5:06:39 PM PDT by grundle
A drunken night out in Sydney's Kings Cross left Rachel Vance with a tattoo on her arm - two tiny stars and a spade. The experience cost her $100 and she regretted it instantly.
Louise Smith got five tattoos at different stages throughout her twenties. One was a butterfly, another commemorated a friend's death and the rest just seemed like a good idea at the time. Until now.
Both women are part of an emerging trend where people are paying upwards of $100 a pop per session of laser treatment to remove tattoos. Oh, and apparently it hurts like hell.
"I got them done when I was very young and definitely believed that I would love them forever and would never regret them. I didn't think about my future and how I might change my view on my tattoos as I matured," Louise Smith said.
According to Sue Salmon of the Wollongong Tattoo Removal Service in New South Wales, the majority of their increasing numbers of clients are young women between 25 and 40.
"Their reasons vary. Anything from wanting to start a career in the army and relationships they've ended, to 'I'm not that person anymore'. Probably about 5 per cent are getting them removed to replace with a new one," Ms Salmon said.
Here's how tattoo removal works. The laser shatters the ink of the tattoo and the body's lymphatic system gradually removes it from the body. Apparently there is also an option to simply fade a tattoo if the person would prefer it.
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Yep, it exists - I just drove past it yesterday. Plug "2310 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX" into Google Maps, then click the little "street view" guy. Made me to a double-take.
They all look like the natives from Bunga Bunga land.
Most look like seaweed draped over their shoulder.
I thought tattoos were meant to show how "bad@ss" you are. But I have found even my kid's overweight, asthmatic, middle-aged kindergarten teacher has got a few, so I'm re-thinking that excuse.
What I don’t get: why a picture that you wouldn’t hang on your wall?
There was a Tattoo parlor in Hong Kong several years ago that was tattooing the words “Stupid White Boy” in Chinese on customer’s arms. They thought the Chinese words said something like “Strong Love” or some other nonsense phrase
You should see the tattooed lesbians of asheville, NC. Not too long ago I saw a young woman with a stocking seam down the backs of her legs. That’s a new one. Makes me wonder about hepatitis when they serve the food...
I don't recall having seen before a Bible prohibition on tattoos, but there it is! There really is nothing new under the Sun, mankind is just as stupid as we ever were, and once again the Bible tries to help us from suffering from our stupidity!
I saw a hot dog shaped tattoo on a woman’s butt...she said it was once a smiley face.
Eloquently said. Humans never learn.
Nothing screams, “I’m a skanky ho” quite like a tattoo or a tongue piercing.
Just my opinion.
Check out photo number 16 - that guy will always have a steak knife handy:
http://izismile.com/2010/09/28/no_wonder_they_cant_get_a_job_26_pics.html
I got a tattoo when I was younger. I might get more someday, it’s not a subject that frequently occupies my mind.
Not defending tattoos and don’t have any but I’m a Christian and not under Levitical law either. You sort of quoted Leviticus 19 v. 28 did you read and do you obey Leviticus 19 v. 19?
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Or the Levitical law that says that you must build a battlement on your roof to keep people from falling off? Were you and your male children circumcised on the 8th day after being born?
LOL
Rock of Ages Tattoo
Austin Laser Clinic
Mis addressed reply, pardon me.
Not defending tattoos and don’t have any but I’m a Christian and not under Levitical law either. You sort of quoted Leviticus 19 v. 28 did you read and do you obey Leviticus 19 v. 19?
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Or the Levitical law that says that you must build a battlement on your roof to keep people from falling off? Were you and your male children circumcised on the 8th day after being born?
Stupid Baw-stids!
Heh... note the Prius parked under the sign post. It’s truly a snapshot of Austin’s weirdness. Add a pony-tailed hipster with grey hair, a girl whose hirsute legs have never seen a razor and a mangled, duct-taped old guitar case and you’d have pretty much the full picture.
Austin Fire Department Prius. I would go dig ditches instead.
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