It rubs the lotion into its skin
Well, not lotion exactly...

When you get into your 40s tattoo-free, maybe that should be taken as a sign not to really bother with getting one.

When you're trying to rebuild a damaged relationship, maybe getting that person's name inked on your body is a poor idea.

So that when six months later everything has gone tits-up, you don't find yourself applying trichloroacetic acid to your skin in order to get rid of said tattoo.

Having said that, after 3 treatments, the TCA is working in that the tattoo is disappearing. Another 3 applications and I think it will be gone.

Pain: not as much as you'd think; and remember, laser removal both hurts and scars and costs. So far once the skin has healed, there has been no scarring...
(TheImmortalJenkins, Sun 23 Jan 2011, 12:10, 5 replies)

Good point...
...I'm in my forties and I'm tattoo-free. Had been thinking about getting one with my wife's name on it. I have been married for nearly 24 great years though, so I'd be safe I guess. Can't decide on a design though...
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 23 Jan 2011, 12:36, closed)

I started to get peirced and tattooed in my early thirties and got the latest tattoo late last year at 45.
But to be honest I'd never get anyone's name no matter how long you've been married.
( girlinthehole, Sun 23 Jan 2011, 13:16, closed)

My mate
when pissed up one night did his whole hand black. Took him about 2 years and a lot of pain burning it off with acid a bit at a time.
(Wagane, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 0:51, closed)

I used to edit articles for a site
On BME. If you look it up, you'll find they're all about tattooing whatever the fuck you want, and any other sort of strange "body-modification" you might desire. This is a site that encourages people to castrate themselves if that's what they really want, and even they discourage you from getting the name of someone as a tattoo. Forget exactly where it is on the site, but somewhere in there, it says something along the lines of "if you get your girlfriend/wife/significant other's name tattooed on your body, you will experience the curse of these tattoos. You'll break up within a couple of years at most, and regret it a great deal. Seriously, don't do it, you'll wish you hadn't, and tattoo removal is painful and/or expensive."
( Ithyphallophobia, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 5:50, closed)

Why not...
...just get a better tattoo done over the top?

Tattoo removal is for DICKS.

One of my tattooists (the previous four words may reveal a slight bias on my part) mentioned that he had once had to work on a British guy who'd come back to the UK following a prison sentence in the States during which he'd had little choice but to join the Aryan Brotherhood to survive and avoid a whole lotta raping. Said tattooist was tasked with the significant job of covering up all his swastikas and white power tatts with something less-disfiguring. Of course, they only did so once establishing the client wasn't a "proper" nazi and had only done what he'd needed to to survive. Then again if he had been I suppose he'd have left the tattoos where they were. Wonder if he got it on the NHS?
(rampants, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 17:49, closed)