My response...
No thanks. Our bodies are beautiful enough.
Defacing them with tattoos is like putting graffiti on the Mona Lisa
or carving your initials into a Giant Redwood.
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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Too bad. Bad decisions equals bad outcomes. Leviticus 19:28: You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
I genuinely support the way the Copts use tattoos: a cross, as an in-your-face declaration of their Christian faith to the Muslims in surrounding society.
Other than that, I can see military types getting their service branch or unit’s insignia on the upper arm, at least once they’ve served long enough to have a permanent sense of membership (I’m told that happens very quickly for U.S. Marines — as in the dictum “there are no ex-Marines”).
Beyond that I’ll go with the “I don’t get tattoos” crowd.
I heard that mostly leftist middle class people use the program too.
**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 hope more and more get them removed. They make a woman ugly in my opinion.
The other day I was in the mall and I noticed a young woman in short shorts walking in front of me. Tattooed across the back of her thighs was “Wild Child”. I can’t imagine how bad that will look in a few years.
Don’t get drunk and don’t hang out with people who have tatoos because they probably will try to follow their foolishness.
I’ve noticed something odd lately about tattoo people. I used to think people got tattoos in order to be ornery, not caring what others thought of them, an in-your-face rebellious sort of thing. And maybe originally that’s why people got them. But now I think many people get them just to be victims. I’ve seen posts on Facebook saying things like, “Stupid bigots stare at my tattoos!” (Why’d you get them if you didn’t want people to look at them?) “Ignorant people have the nerve to dislike my tattoos! How dare they judge me?! They’re ART, people!” and similar snotty, scolding sort of posts.
My theory is that all the heroes nowadays are victims. So if a person doesn’t have any particular reason to claim victimhood, they get tattoos, then cry “victim” when not everyone falls down in joyous admiration of their tattoos. People with tats have gone from “I’m a rebel and don’t care what you think,” to “You have to love my tattoos or else you’re victimizing me.”
I was at DFS taking a foster kid to a supervised visit; the government program to tattoo everyone on government assistance seems to be going well.
Oh Vendome, I don’t blame you! I skipped right past the getting of one, on to the not having one part.
The article said that in some places you can have tattoos put or removed in the same parlor.
No thanks. Our bodies are beautiful enough.
Defacing them with tattoos is like putting graffiti on the Mona Lisa
or carving your initials into a Giant Redwood.
This was foreseen by Dr. Seuss in The Sneetches. He charged to apply the star to the belly and to remove the star from the belly and had a booming business going.
A tattoo on an attractive woman is nature’s puzzle.
When in the service I saw all kinds, but the one that spooked me was a shipmate who had dashes around his neck with the words "Cut Here". I stayed away from him.
However, I think a certain tattoo is what obama & Crew have in store for each of us: 
I always thought tattoos were skanky on women. Now I'm not saying all women with tattoos are skanks but they do make them look like skanks. As for men, tattoos make them look like felons. Now I'm not saying all men with tattoos are felons but they do make them look like felons.
Not sure why anybody would want to be thought of as a skank or a felon.
new band name - Tattoo Regret
Baby!!!
How are you?!?!
I thought I saw an ad the other day for an electronically modifiable tattoo. My memory is vague on that and maybe it was a fantasy or proof of concept rather than something currently selling. But this if real would let the wearer blank his or her tattoo at will. Frankly I say why bother. If I want to wear graphics that’s why the good Lord inspired the t-shirt and the belt buckle etc. Then I can doff them at will.
“We haven’t spoken in a long time.”
That is too bad, don’t let it be just because of a tatoo, or even many tatoos.
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