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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I was considering a tat of my hockey team’s “Batman” logo. This was when I was 59 yo.
But then the team moved to Winnipeg.
Knew people who wanted tattoos so I suggested they get their idea done as a temporary to “test drive” it. Doesn’t cost much. They didn’t want to hear it, knowing full well that on second thought, they would realize that most would be bad ideas.
A tattoo is the least of the reasons.
Ha, ha no kidding!
I hate to see young girls with such pretty skin mess it up with the ugly tattoo ink. Why do something permanent like that to your body? Ink under the skin can’t possibly be healthy. I also find it amusing how many people who are insistent that everything they ingest or use be 100% natural get tattoos. Weird.
The Bible says not to mar your body with piericings and such. I just don’t get it. Of course, when I was young, only old sailors and ex-cons had tattoos.
BTW, with each tattoo one gets, the risk of contracting hepatitis C increases. You are not allowed to donate blood for at least 1 year after getting a tattoo. That should tell you something.
There are to types of tattoo people.
1. Those who are so ugly that the tats don’t help
2. Those who are good looking and you have to ask why the need to deface art.
The presence of a tattoo should not be treated as a positive identifier or more significantly to rule someone out as a suspect. Someone may have a "memorable tattoo" but they can get something else tattooed over it. Just as attacker with "no tattoos" can get a tattoo.
Oh gettin by, gettin by. I might come out in Oct. Either that or Nully will come visit me. I need some company!!!!
After I posted that you "sort of quoted", I realized that it may have been an accurate quote, depending on what version you were using, it isn't in the K.J.V that way and that's the one I use. Your version obviously differs.
My primary point was that Christians are not subject to all the Levitical laws.
I'm very happy to hear that you are a Christian.
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