Tattoo Removal Quite Popular!

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ClassicRockr

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We all know just how popular getting tattoo's is for the younger generation. All a person has to do is watch part of one NBA or NFL game and you can definitely see how popular they are. Go into a lot of stores to day and you will also see how popular they are among the younger generation.

Now, what you don't hear about is how popular "tattoo removal" is. Here is part of an article from a news station in Denver, CO about this:

Tattoo removal is big business in Colorado
We see tattoo shops all around town. It seems like it's a pretty big business. But did you know that tattoo removal shops do well too? We visited one shop called "What were you Inking" in Denver.
Owner Jill France removes permanent body ink. She says business has been increasing every year. She says people remove their tattoos for all sorts of different reasons.

"Whether you want to get rid of someone's name on you, or you want to free up real estate because you love tattoos, you're covered in them and you want to get a new one," France said. "So, you have to remove an old one so you can get a new one."
France said she even had a girl walk in her shop with a "no regrets" tattoo. She said the girl apparently had regrets and wanted it removed the very next day.

France said the average tattoo removal treatment costs around $150 a session. It takes the average person between five and 15 sessions to get it completely removed.

For you entrepreneurs out there who might wonder what you can make by opening up a shop like this, France offers some insight.
She does all the work herself and says she takes home between $150,000 to $200,000 a year. That's the gross amount, which doesn't take into account any of her expenses.

"It's been fairly lucrative," France said. "I'm happy I take home a paycheck every month."

I've also heard of the younger generation, as with one young lady in So California, who had hers removed b/c of a job she wanted as an Outside Sales Executive w/an outstanding salary and benefits. One of the benefits was to have a company car and credit card to use for expenses. She was told upfront, at the interview, if she has an visible tattoos on her arms, she would have to have them removed. This was due to short-sleeve summer wear that she'd would wear on the job. She was told, "none of our Outside Sales Exec's have visible tattoo's on their arms and the company has never had a problem enforcing the policy".

So, appears that "tattoo removal" has gotten just as popular as getting tattoo's.
What do you think?
 

For sure. Most of these "tattoo freaks" will eventually wake up and realize how obnoxious they look, and how these tattoos are affecting their ability to land a decent job, etc. Tattoo Removal may become one of the bigger Growth Industries in the next few years. There is nothing wrong with a small discrete tattoo that can be easily covered with clothing, but far too many of these people have taken this "art form" to the extreme.
 

Believe it or not... I have a tattoo... it's very small on my left ankle.. a Blue Bird with a rose in it's beak. I like it and won't be getting it removed.. even though some think it looks like a pot leaf.
 
I never got any, BUT almost did, just before meeting my wife. I thought it would be cool to have an Eagle on each arm between the wrist and elbow. I think it was the cost that stopped me, but my wife is VERY grateful that I didn't have it done.

Some folks get pretty shocked when I tell them that I was in the Navy, but never got a tattoo.

The tattoo's from years ago, you know, the "Love Mom" and ones like it, I could totally handle, but the ones today......WOW! Yes, extreme! Covering the entire back and/or chest, on the neck, all over the arms and even on the face and head. A person could probably buy a brand new Jag w/the cost of the tattoo's on their body. Some are that elaborate!
 
Mine is about the size of a nickel. I think more that really wanting a tat... I wanted to experience what it felt like to get one. But I'm not at all sorry, 99.9% of the time I forget I have it.
 
I have Eeyore tattooed on my right ankle. Long story as to why I got it about 18 years ago but I have never regretted it and like QS,most of the time I forget I even have it. The one thing about tattoos is that they can be very addictive. As soon as I got mine,I wanted to get another,and spent hours on the internet trying to find exactly what I wanted. I knew in my mind what I wanted,just needed to find something that the artist could copy. Anyway,during that time I was diagnosed with diabetes,so that kind of put an end to me getting another one. My DIL has many,many tats,her close friend is a tattoo artist and does her work free,but everytime she gets a new one,I just cringe.
 
I got one for my 60th birthday present to myself. It was on my "bucket list". It's a hidden one, though, and unless I lose a bet and have to run down Main Street stark naked at high noon, it will stay hidden. Of course, if I had to run down Main Street at high noon, everyone is going to be blinded by the acres of billowing white flesh, so it doesn't make a lot of difference either way....
 
jujube said:
I got one for my 60th birthday present to myself. It was on my "bucket list". It's a hidden one, though, and unless I lose a bet and have to run down Main Street stark naked at high noon, it will stay hidden. Of course, if I had to run down Main Street at high noon, everyone is going to be blinded by the acres of billowing white flesh, so it doesn't make a lot of difference either way....
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LOL-A man actually ran naked down Main St. here yesterday. It was almost 70 degrees here so I guess he just wanted to celebrate :)
 
I can only imagine how some tattoo's turn into regret. I don't have any. I work with a lot of people who do. The last administration made a big deal of people needing to cover all tattoos. It didn't last.
 
I often wonder when I see somebody who looks
like a living piece of modern art if they ever thought
that "A Tattoo is for Life, Not just for Christmas".

Mike.
 
I have a small pastel colored tattoo in an area that could only be seen when I wore my French cut bikini back in the day...now hubby is the only one that can see it, we both like it until this day...no regrets. It's around 2 inches high and wide in the area of the left high rear. It's a pale yellow rose, with pale baby blue clouds around it, and a pale little rainbow. It looks the same now as when I got it, around 30 years old. Never faded, never saw the sun except on a couple of vacations in Hawaii.
:sunglass:
 
There's a show on cable TV, Tattoo Nightmares, where people come in with tattoos they regret getting and they are done over and made into something else by the artists...some weird and interesting stuff there, amazing what people will get as tattoos.
 
I just don't get what the appeal is. Just don't understand why someone would want to do that to themselves, and why if they get one they want more. If I see one on somebody, I never know if they want people to look at them, or ignore them. Swimming and water exercise is ''my thing'' so I can't help but see a lot of almost naked people of all ages, many with tattoos. But the most noticeable thing is that the older the person is, usually meaning the longer they've had the tattoo, the tattoos just look like a bad bruise that didn't heal right or a circulatory problem. They lose color and shape over time. My grandson got a big tattoo on his forearm to celebrate his recovery from a drug problem. He is staying clean and sober and is very responsible, but on his job he has to wear long sleeves to cover it, and I've heard military recruiters aren't accepting individuals with prominent tattoos.
 
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can someone find this kid a job???
 
Had I known how much it was going to hurt I probably wouldn't have gotten a tattoo, but otherwise than that, I don't regret it. It took almost 2 1/2 hours to get mine and I swear she was doing it with a dental drill. It's not even *that* big and it hurt like the dickens.

Many, many years ago before it was "acceptable" for a "respectable" woman to have a tattoo, I was the director of a non-profit organization that raised money for local cultural organizations (ballet, symphony, art museum, etc) through special events. Most of our events were black-tie affairs but one of our more fun events was a "tacky party", where people vied to dress the tackiest, eat hot dogs and baked beans and listen to a bad rock band (it's amazing what people will pay $100 a head to attend, but....it raised money).

I was wearing a low-cut rather sleezy evening gown and had applied a few very high quality but low-class (i.e., one was a skull with a snake twined through the eye holes) temporary tattoos in strategic places. I guess they were pretty realistic, because when having lunch a few weeks later with one of our biggest benefactors, he mentioned that he was very surprised to see that I had tattoos and he wouldn't have imagined that I would have them. I thought...uh, oh...how many of my directors thought I *really* had a bunch of tasteless tattoos? So at the next board meeting, during my report, I mentioned that I just wanted everyone to know that those tattoos I had been sporting were just temporaries. We all had a good laugh. Little did I know that many years later, I WOULD be the tattooed lady. But then, my grandfather was a side-show performer, so I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
 
A small tattoo is fine but here in Thailand where a lot of skin is exposed we've seen people whose entire arms and legs are tattooed, also their backs. Hideous.

We saw one man who had a large Buddha tattoo on his upper arm. If spotted he could be deported. Signs at the airport tell you it's not allowed here.
 

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