Buyer’s Remorse

around lunchtime on Monday, the 17th of September 2007 by Chad

The American Academy of Dermatology reports tattoo regret is common in the United States. Among a group of 18- to 50-year-olds surveyed in 2004, 24 percent reported having a tattoo and 17 percent of those considered getting their tattoo removed.

So, most people with tattoos want them removed. But then you get the jackass “artists” pulling stuff like this when the answer is the new tattoo ink called Freedom-2.

While Mr. Schmieg said he’s had a positive response to the ink, those in the tattoo industry are balking.
“It goes against everything a tattoo is supposed to be about,” said Ross Kennedy, a tattoo artist at Ink Monkey Tattoo in Homestead. “The whole idea about tattooing is, it’s about forever. Removing it defies the whole purpose in the first place.”
Mr. Kennedy, like other practitioners, regard themselves as artists on par with Monet and Leonardo da Vinci.
“A tattoo is a permanent body modification,” added Bob Lang, who has operated Accents in Ink in Castle Shannon for 13 years. “People don’t come in and think, ‘OK, I’ll get myself a tattoo that can be removed in one sitting.’ “

Did this loser actually think he’s an artist on par with Money and da Vinci?

via CNN.com