Burn It Off!

I've considered revising or removing one of my tatts, but the laser procedure is cost-prohibitive and the ink is in the color range that's not effected well by lasers (reds and purples). The blistering shown there is actually pretty extreme. I've seen plenty of people do it and come out looking like they had a bad sunburn.

Still though, in the old days, it was cover it up, burn it off (hot knife/metal), or cut it off. So a few blisters is a better option.

I really want to talk to people who've tried wrecking balm.

I somehow doubt it works as well as this picture shows...

Yeah - that last picture looks so photoshopped. Something about it doesn't sit right with me.

I've also wondered about Wrecking balm.

For myself, I think tattoo's are forever.

There have been times when I looked down at my leg and wondered what the hell ever possesed me to get my Mr. Yuk, thought "jesus christ amber, that is the ugliest thing ever! why the hell did you do that?", most of the time it amuses me though, and even the times I look at it and don't like it I'm amused by the thought that at one point I was possesed to do something so odd to myself all for the sake of personal amusement.

I wouldn't remove it... I'm already planning several more just as strange.

Because, as Alice Cooper says, "You're poison"?

yah.

probably mostly to myself though.

I was thinking about having him colored in pink and giving him black pig tails with green bows. Tattoo sex change; Ms. Yuk

I really just got it because I thought it would be funny.

Don't they have that ink now where they can pretty much just burn it off with light rays or something like that or is that still in like the beta stages?

The only reason I can think of is if you were drunk/stupid enough to get a face or neck tattoo and now can't find work, or you have a prison one that you need gone.

Personally I think that they are forever to a certain extent. Have I gotten tattoos that I eventually wanted gone or didn't like? Sure I have. What I did is did a cover up. A large cover up. I love tattoos and I know they are not for everyone. I just like the whole experience. The whole process if you will. Sitting down and BSing with someone for hours getting art put on. I have made some good acquaintances and friends getting tattooed. Sure I may have to wear long sleeves in the summer at work but to me its worth it. Its a type of therapy. When I look at a tattoo its like a bookmark to the past. I can remember the exact moment the ink was put in. Who I was with and who I was at the time. Unlike shows like L.A. Ink every tattoo doesn't have to have some depressing or interesting story behind it, but rather the tattoo becomes a story in itself and becomes a part of who you are, how you see yourself and how others see you.

Just last month I got kicked out of a bar in Houston because the bouncers saw my neck tattoo (lower back of neck). They said neck tattoos weren't allowed in the bar because gangsters have their gang signs tattooed on their necks. My tattoo is actually a biomechanical tattoo and I laughed at them. I was like "Do I look like a gangster to you?" After talking with them they let me back in as long as I put some sunglasses over the back of my neck. My brother in law was like "Well I guess your just too hardcore for Houston huh?" I laughed at the whole scenario.

They have ink they are testing out that breaks down easier and is said to be able to be removed with just one laser removal appointment. But this ink isn't natural and who knows if the ink is any good at all. It may be crap and fade or blotch.

If your going to get a tattoo my get removable ink? Your just dooming yourself from the start.

i've considered removal but i'm sure i'm just going to get bigger better tattoos that will eventually cover my little tramp stamp if not my tat is hardly noticeable as is

Oh Jaz, I never imagined you having a tramp stamp. Please tell me its not a rose with tribal around it.

haha no but it is a little flower there was a picture floating around somewhere on the cult it's not as bad as it sounds but yeah it's still a tramp stamp.

Cover up should be fairly easy then. Maybe just incorporated into a larger scale piece. I love full back masterpieces.

I have considered getting one at some point, but I think I'm just going to be satisfied with my freckles. My younger sister and I were talking about it and I mentioned possibly drawing a monarch butterfly caterpillar as a potential tattoo. She said she'd get it for me on her body because she's getting tattoos to represent her siblings. She started with my brother and hasn't had the money to get any more. There's a lonely fox skull with crossbones looking thing near her ribs.
I know I'm not absolutely certain about getting anything permanent on my body just yet, so I hope my sister is satisfied with hers. That tattoo removal process does not look pleasant.

Yes, all of this exactly. I only have two, a lotus on the shin of one ankle and Mr.Yuk (pending sexuality crisis) on the other, both the same size. The are a pair, though I had them done a year apart and only Yuk was planned. If one went, then both would have to, and that just won't happen. The memory of getting them, being with my best friend while she got some much more extensive badass work done, where I was mentally & emotionally all of that. It is all intertwined into these permanent drawings. I feel the same about the work on others that I am close to as well (though obviously it wouldn't be my choice if they decided to remove it) there is just so much wrapped up in the times the art was put there.

That's the way I feel about it, too. It all represents a time and a moment, the way you felt when it happened, the reasons why. Everything is wrapped up in that piece of art.

Granted, I do think that time and thought needs to be put into a tattoo, if nothing else than just finding a good artist who isn't going to give you AIDS. Or isn't very good at what he does and your daisy ends up turning into an egg after a couple years.

I mean, people make stupid mistakes, even with tattoos, but most everything you get represents something. My best friend got a tattoo to symbolize one of her favorite bands, AFI, and people ask her all the time "Won't you regret that if you grow out of their music?" And she says "No. Because it symbolizes a time when they meant so much to me that I wanted to remember it forever."

And that's how I feel about it. I don't actually have ink, but if I got something, even if I ended up hating it, I wouldn't get it removed.

JUst to answer what pain i'd go through to remove an unwanted presence on my skin.

FOR>.............

I really wish people would stop letting him be around kids....
(whopi looks how pepper probably feels.)

one day those kids will be like "Mom.. I mean Samantha why did we have to hang out with that creepy old guy?"

I was just thinking that Hopi was making more sense now-a-days. Guess I learned my lesson.

Hopi NEVER makes sense. the only time it remotely makes sense it's pure accident.

One of my friends tried laser removal and the acid stuff you buy off the interwebs that's supposed to eat your skin off. They're both kind of substandard methods and leave a lot to be desired. Unless you have tattoos on your face or hands or something and they're little (like the three dots tattoo) I would not do this.

I think the best method is to save up your money, find a competent artist, and cover up your tattoo with something good.

They also sell special makeup to cover up tattoos in case you have to go to court and you have I HATE JUDGES tattooed on your forehead or something.

yeah, i eventually want to get my chest covered with clouds that move onto my shoulder and turn into Bob Dylan's messy 66 era hair. but i need to a] save the dough for the job, and b] find someone that is willing to do a cover-up and is also an amazing portrait artist because there is no way i am getting a shitty portrait.

UFC Fighter Alan Belcher has to hold some kind of record for requesting a portrait of Johnny Cash that has somehow morphed into a hybrid Rosie O'Donnell/Fat Elvis:

I will eventually get a cover up on my right arm, I think, but that means I'll pretty much have a half-sleeve at that point, which might be more than I want.

I have a tattoo on my back/ shoulder blade that I wish I didn't have. But Jeez, that hurt so badly, part of me wants to keep it just to show I could endure that much pain and the other part of my is just afraid having to go through it again in reverse.

From what I understand the laser removal process is so much more painful than the tattoo process. I'm sure it depends on what you have and where you have it, like it does with just getting a tattoo, but still.

yeah, i think cover-ups are meant to sting a bit too, because it's essentially piercing an already scarred surface. so, that's bound to pain.

no pictures of Mr. Cool Ice yet, eh?

that NEEDS to be in a book.

it'll be this cool black guy with crazy hair that had a tattoo on his hand that said Bad Motherfucker and he turned it into a wallet and then at the end of the book Samuel L Jackson will steal it from him.

I wanna see that shit!! sounds like something ed gien/ or damher would do.

I kew a guy when I was a teenager that had LSD in three inch letters on his forehead. Really crappy too, just scraggly lines not fancy or anything.

I know there is some museum in Japan that actually has the skin/tattoos of ancient Yakuza members in their archives.

See, in the future if we want our tattoos to be displayed in a museum how are we gonna do that if all this shit is lasered off?!

I kept my teeth when I had the top two pulled (wisdom) they just gave me a weird look and warned me it was biohazard. I was like... I don't think they are going to harm me worse in my hand than they did in my mouth.

Also, I know at least some hospitals and birth centers will let you keep your placenta after giving birth as long as you fill out the proper forms beforehand and have ice to put it on and everything.

I think you could probably be able to keep your own body parts if it was for religious reasons, needing to put every part to rest or something. Most likely be the same deal, with proper filing and protocols and all.

Also, about keeping my teeth, that was years ago and I don't still have them, not the ones I was whining about last week.

Some people eat the placenta. I saw a thing where these ladies kept the placenta from giving birth and cooked and ate it. Sort of a form of cannibalism I suppose.

I just threw up a little.

Ohh tattoos, Non of my tattoos i truly regret. Some of the work isnt the best and i have to get them patched up one of these days. I cant imagine getting them burn off, i spent a lot of money on these things and im not going to spend more to get rid of them. If anything i might get something i hated covered up but i would feel like i was hiding a memory or a time in my life.

AS for Placenta, ya i friend of mine had it dried and turned into pills. its supposed to be super high in, whatever, and really good for helping your body recover from pregnancy. But still, really gross.

And i too have a jar full of my teeth that i have had pried out of my head and a few others folks teeth. I put them in the medicine cabinet, it keeps people from snooping.

Yes, I know. My sisters boyfriend wanted to keep their baby's and cook it up, but they hadn't done all the forms beforehand to ba allowed to take it home.

I just burried all of my kids placentas with rose bushes, one of them under a blueberry bush.

Eating of the placenta actually can serve a purpose, not cooking it up in a stew or stirfry, but just a small quarter sized piece taken from the maternal side of it (the side that was attatched to the unterine wall) directly after birth and sucking on it will help emensely in an emergency to stop excess bleeding. I mean giving it to the mother who just gave birth to suck on, of course. Excess bleeding is usually caused by the body not realising the baby is born, it contiunes to pump blood to the place where the placenta was, so sucking on a piece of it puts the hormones into the blood stream and can help trigger the brain to release the chemicals it needs to stop pumping blood in that way.

Obviously only a method to try in an emergency side of the road situation where real medical care isn't availible.

does eating a placenta make your closer to god, or more intelligent or something. is it like eating brains?

It gives you the power of your enemy!

no ..just sick