What do you mean?
Posted on 06/02/2014 7:50:49 AM PDT by Phillyred
DALLAS-Thirteen needles are simultaneously zinging in and out of Adam Metzger’s shoulder.
The 27-year-old is unruffled. He stares unblinkingly out the storefront window of Taboo Tattoo, a studio in the Bishop Arts District. To his right, Cody Biggs shades blue into a square of the Texas state flag. His movements are sure, even.
The buzzing suddenly falls silent. Biggs pauses to dunk the handpiece into a thimble-sized plastic cup of ink, then turns back to his canvas. Metzger’s shoulder is pink and puffy, weeping streams of ink and blood.
“How are you doing, buddy?” Biggs asks, rubbing on ointment in counterclockwise circles.
“It doesn’t feel good, man,” Metzger responds. “But I’ve definitely felt worse pain.”
Plenty of people know what he’s been through. As of 2012, 1 in 5 adults had a tattoo, up from 14 percent in 2008, a Harris Interactive Poll found. And when safety standards are followed, tattoos are usually trouble-free.
But tattoos can pose health risks that many people might not consider:
Unsterilized tools or contaminated ink can lead to infection, scarring, blood-borne diseases and other, less-obvious issues.
“It’s becoming much more common, but you still have to be careful,” says Dr. Bryan Wasson, an internal medicine physician at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center at Irving, Texas. “A tattoo is like a minor surgery.
You clean and shave the skin like you’re going to operate. You use surgical tools. There are dangers. So be careful in your selection.”
During the procedure, a gun with needles punctures the top layer of the skin, depositing pigment in a deeper layer called the dermis. As the skin heals, the ink remains trapped below the surface.
“When you get a tattoo, you bleed,” said Dr. Donna Casey, an internal medical specialist at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital...
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Tattoos and infected piercings way after they are done. Mess with your body and it messes with you.
Yow!
Come to any beach in Jersey this summer and you’ll see how they stay in business. We go to Ocean City- a very clean, very family-oriented beach town and you wouldn’t believe the number of tats. It is sad.I can only imagine what other nearby less family-oriented beaches are like.
Just do a search on tattoo and hepatitis, tatto and aids, tattoo and hiv, etc.
The numbers are frightening, but then again, young people are immune to such problems.........
Tattoo - The Who
Me and my brother were talking to each other
‘Bout what makes a man a man
Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born
We just couldn’t understand
Our old man didn’t like our appearance
He said that only women wear long hair
So me and my brother borrowed money from Mother
We knew what we had to do
We went downstairs, past the barber and gymnasium
And got our arms tattooed
Welcome to my life, tattoo
I’m a man now, thanks to you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’l be there when I die
Tattoo
My dad beat me ‘cause mine said “Mother”
But my mother naturally liked it and beat my brother
‘Cause his tattoo was of a lady in the nude
And my mother thought that was extremely rude
Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
Now I’m older, I’m tattooed all over
My wife is tattooed too
A rooty-toot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot
Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too
To you
My brother in law is a dermatologist. He refuses to perform tattoo removals as the process releases toxins into the blood stream.
Doesn’t anyone remember Groucho’s “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”?
I wonder if there’s some sort of temporary sexual thrill with having that done
Yeah it also forbids trimming your beard, cutting your hair on the sides and permanently selling land, uncovering your head and mixing fabrics among other things. Do you follow those rules too?
What do you mean?
Belt sander. Some side effects.
I 100% agree. I don't care how beautiful a woman is--if she has even one tattoo, I want absolutely nothing to do with her.
You did better than me, I managed to get one small one.
Nobody would ever really know though, high up on my shoulder.
Nowadays, people are so marked up, it’s disgusting. Lots of cleavage, and chest tattoos now on the females too, it’s crazy.
Any time a woman has asked me about her tattoos and I told the truth they’ve gone ballistic.
Sorry, but it just looks like graffiti on an otherwise beautiful work of art.
But, sadly I have met a lot of women who have tattoos and my interest is ended right then and there. It is an early warning:
” I am a dingbat. I have self esteem issues and do not respect my self. Please be advised “
Turning tons Lower Back Tattoo Remover
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I can’t think of a thing I wanted inked on me permanently.
I like staying flexible, liquid.
A man on his own.. get in.. get out..
Do not age well?
On a woman, they don't even young well.
What a torso.
the mortician can always get rid of them
I heard there is a good number of people have their flesh sliced off after death to remove tattoos so they can be buried in Jewish cemeteries
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