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Tattoo remorse fuels boom for dermatologists
cnn ^ | 9-18-07

Posted on 09/17/2007 10:27:23 PM PDT by LouAvul

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To: LouAvul

If someone could convince some venture capitalists to invest in franchising this concept, you could make a killing.


21 posted on 09/17/2007 11:08:10 PM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: SergeiRachmaninov

When I see someone with a tattoo I assume they could be a murderer, or a porn star. They’re definitely stupid people, with no sense of right and wrong, no common sense, no capacity for independent thought. Really, not much value as humans. I mean c’mon, if anything tells you everything there is to know about a person it’s whether or not they have a tattoo.

Am I right?


22 posted on 09/17/2007 11:11:49 PM PDT by Sandreckoner
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To: Sandreckoner
I can imagine someone mocking me writing what you wrote!

But, hey...I'll bite...I am right there with you. A tat pretty much tells your all you need to know....low-life trash.

(I had second thoughts about including green and purple hair -- which I despise -- in my screed. Sure, they are obnoxious. But a little obnoxiousness and youthfulness kinda go together, in many cases. However out-there the punks pretend to be, we all know, and ~they~ know, that they can wash that crap out of their hair when they grow up.)

23 posted on 09/17/2007 11:17:23 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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To: dragnet2

I understand and respect people that do not share my view but I like tattoo’s.

I do not think nor would I ever say that people without tattoos are uncool.


24 posted on 09/17/2007 11:23:06 PM PDT by Paulus
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To: LouAvul

When traveling, never register in a hotel that is on the same street that has these three ‘businesses’:

1. Strip joint

2. Tattoos

3. Adult book store


25 posted on 09/17/2007 11:23:51 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: BunnySlippers; TigersEye
Not all tattoos fade or stretch. I've had 4 children & I have tats, none stretched that didn't go back after I was pregnant. I used sunscreen on them from my 1st one which I got well over 20 yrs ago. Mine didn't fade much at all. However mine are able to be covered unless I want to show them. Would I like them gone? Some of them yes. My butterfly's no, as I happen to like them.

I don't think most people use their brains when they get them. I've seen many that just look terrible & people are going to regret them later in life for sure.

When I got mine I was way younger. I don't try to judge people by the fact they have tattoos. If I were to do it over again I really doubt I would get any. But I sure wouldn't bother to get scarred taking them off.

I know many Freepers are against them but many people have them that you would never believe would have them. I don't like to see girls loaded with them and have always told anyone who was planning to get one to think long & hard before they do it. ~Pandora~

26 posted on 09/17/2007 11:27:13 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: Paulus

Curious - How many do you have?


27 posted on 09/17/2007 11:27:46 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: dragnet2
Makes me wanna live in the boonies, find a cave.

It is a damn shame, but I -- at a physically very youthful 60 years old -- and seriously "cocooning" in my life.

I've lived my entire life plugged into media, reading several newspapers, staying close to radio and tv, etc.

Now, I am deliberately avoiding public places and events. I got rid of cable. I am trying to tune it out. I am moving toward a creepy reality like some old moviestar recluse -- I embrace the music of Tin Pan Alley but only a very, very few musicians post-1980. I am emphasizing my interests in food, cycling, gardening and history. I am trying to turn away from everything that is part of the present-day culture, including the Internet.

The last "public person" who really inspired me was John Rocker!

28 posted on 09/17/2007 11:28:08 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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To: dragnet2
When I see these subhumans with the backward hats, dopey haircuts and creepy tattoos, I wonder what the Democrat party would do if they did not have the congenital idiot vote locked up. Perhaps these dolts are showing solidarity with felons or some such lunacy...
29 posted on 09/17/2007 11:29:29 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: LouAvul
Best SNL skit ever.. "Turlington's lower back tattoo remover" Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
30 posted on 09/17/2007 11:32:32 PM PDT by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: Sandreckoner
lmao.....many Marines have them. So are you calling them everything you posted like this?

They’re definitely stupid people, with no sense of right and wrong, no common sense, no capacity for independent thought. Really, not much value as humans.

If so I think you have made a big mistake...You must be quite a wonderful person. IMHO you sound very silly. But to each his own.

31 posted on 09/17/2007 11:32:59 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: Michael.SF.
In the interest of full disclosure, in my salad days I looked like a dopey hippy, and was one! But I would never get a tattoo, because even as a budding idiot I thought it risky to have someone who looks like he has hepatitis stick colored needles in my skin. I have accomplished some stupid things in my time, but not every stupid thing!
32 posted on 09/17/2007 11:35:01 PM PDT by ashtanga
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Wow. The idiots posting on this thread remind me of why I left this forum. Thanks.


33 posted on 09/17/2007 11:37:12 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP (¿Dubya es mi señor, es él el tuyo?)
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To: yorkie

Four. I will be getting another one on Oct. 9.


34 posted on 09/17/2007 11:37:56 PM PDT by Paulus
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To: pandoraou812

My husband is 72 and has a tattoo on each forearm that he got in his early 20’s. You can no longer even tell what they are and haven’t been able to for years. They are just nasty blue blobs on his skin. Just wait, your’s will get there.


35 posted on 09/17/2007 11:38:28 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: LouAvul

“Tattoos are going to make them much richer.”

Right you are, LouAvul. I can only imagine what is involved, and the cost of, removing “tramp Stamps” and “ass antlers”...LOL! As well, at one time I worked in a job that had me working closely with audiologists. Put your investment money in hearing aid companies. They are going to really be booming thanks to “boom cars” and headphones.


36 posted on 09/17/2007 11:41:22 PM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
"I don’t get the tattoo craze."

I can see them on men. They just don't belong on a lady though.

In fact I've always seen tattoos as a sexual metaphor - a girl submitting to that is scarred like a 'ho, as much as any consenting encounter would do. (Heck at least she could lie about sex, while the tattoo just advertises poor judgment.)

Even that aside, I'm still judgmental about them. What tremendous lack of foresight! I can't have that raising my kids.

Like I said, on males it seems different. For one thing- tattoos were cool 40 years ago when only sailors and criminal convicts had them. Now every damn yuppie has to get one, in a pathetic attempt to prove that they aren't really yuppies...

When everyone does something "cool", it's not cool anymore. Really the best thing is to stay home and do nothing.

37 posted on 09/17/2007 11:44:35 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: LouAvul

I think they are so ugly.


38 posted on 09/17/2007 11:45:59 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

39 posted on 09/17/2007 11:46:02 PM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: Ditter

I will be 50 next year and mine look fine. Since the sun rarely is on them & if it is I use sunscreen I really doubt it. Ink has changed since your husband got his too. My dad was in WW2 and his tat isn’t even a blob and he is 86 years old. I’ve seen the type you are talking about and most do look bad. It depends on skin type too. If you exposed them to sun for many years they will fade. I am careful so I am not at all worried in the least thank you. And I got mine where I can cover my blobs if they ever doubtfully get that way. At 72 years old I will have worse things to worry about then being body beautiful or haveing tats I bet.


40 posted on 09/17/2007 11:48:24 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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