07 Mar 15
A tattoo like a rose on the leg or even those lower-back tattoos (often called 'tramp stamps' ) can look pretty hot. However, I don't like the fact that tats are permanent. They should make ones that last for only a few weeks. That way, women (or men) could change them the way some people change their hair color. That would allow for some nice creativity, and make tats even more fashionable.
07 Mar 15
Originally posted by redbadgerI think tattoos make a person look like an ignorant sheep/ person. This FAD came directly from prisons. The worst, ignorant offender/losers you can imagine. My brother-in-law is a cop and he says "We don't catch the smart criminals, only the dumb ones". Sheep people just mindlessly follow someone else's lead. DUH
I think it makes them look intelligent even more so if they are blonde
07 Mar 15
Originally posted by vivifyAmen..the tat parlors make just as much money REMOVING tats than they do putting them on ! LOLOLO the joke is on the mindless sheeple !!
A tattoo like a rose on the leg or even those lower-back tattoos (often called 'tramp stamps' ) can look pretty hot. However, I don't like the fact that tats are permanent. They should make ones that last for only a few weeks. That way, women (or men) could change them the way some people change their hair color. That would allow for some nice creativity, and make tats even more fashionable.
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08 Mar 15
Originally posted by vivifyThere may be hope:
A tattoo like a rose on the leg or even those lower-back tattoos (often called 'tramp stamps' ) can look pretty hot. However, I don't like the fact that tats are permanent. They should make ones that last for only a few weeks. That way, women (or men) could change them the way some people change their hair color. That would allow for some nice creativity, and make tats even more fashionable.
Falkenham, a Ph.D. student in pathology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has developed a technique that doesn't involve lasers to break down the ink particles in the skin.
His technique, called Bisphosphonate Liposomal Tattoo Removal, involves a cream that makes use of the body's own defenses.
He's not anti-tattoo; in fact, he has four and is keeping them all.
"This idea started when I got my first tattoo and I was thinking of the tattoo process from an immune point of view," Falkenham said in a news release. "Since then, I have added three more and currently don't regret any of them -- but that's probably a reflection on me waiting until I was older."
Falkenham worked with his university's Industry Liaison and Innovation office to patent the technology and get funding to continue his research.
When people get tattoos, the ink pigments in their skin get eaten by macrophages, a type of white blood cells. The cells eat the pigment to protect the surrounding issue from the foreign substance, Falkenham says. Those cells form the tattoo people see. Tattoos eventually fade when those macrophages are replaced by new ones.
Another group of macrophages moves some of the pigment to lymph nodes that remove it from the area. Falkenham's cream targets those macrophages, speeding up the natural fading process.
Though the initial research has proved promising, more is required to build on his results before the product can be sold.
