NEWS: Problems with Commitment? Get Your Tattoos Done with Disappearing Ink

CULTURE: Problems with Commitment? Get Your Tattoos Done with Disappearing Ink

A Philadelphia company is joining forces with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to provide safer tattoo dyes that are much easier to remove.

Makes me wish I had waited to have "Conversation Piece" tattooed across my ass.

im all for it as long as the color looks sharp and wont bleed out or fade

Just be careful when you're scanning your groceries at the Self-Checkout.

Sweet. I'm glad this technology exists, if only so I can tell my parents that I got my tattoos done with it.

there's a good conversation about this going on in the Tattoo Group too...personally i'm fascinated with it and look forward to more research in the area.

I have always had major issues with changing my preferences on absolutely everything, so for me this is genius.

thats pretty brilliant, if it works.

Team Science!

Wouldn't it still scar like a motherfucker?

I think the important question to ask is: How much does a laser treament cost?

Otherwise sounds sweet. I'd love to have a tattoo that I could get rid of once I got old, saggy, and ugly.

purpose of a tattoo?

defeated!

you mean your purpose for a tattoo is defeated.

true!

Like I said in the tattoo group, I wish this was around when I got my tattoos.

Ive had to get a skin cancer removed from next to a tattoo and the doctors took out chunk of the tattoo, so Im left with a nasty scar thats full of blown out ink. Im now getting that tattoo lasered off because its so badly damaged and this new ink would make the whole process easier for anyone else who may have to go through a similar thing to me. Incision damage on tattoos isnt pretty

This should be required for anyone under the age of 20 who is getting a tattoo involving:

A Disney or Warner Bros cartoon character
Any combination of a dolphin, unicorn, gecko, or butterfly
Anything "tribal"
The name of a band and/or anyone who is not family

I'm just fascinated by the fact that with this, you'll never run out of space for new designs.

SCIENCE!

That's pretty damned cool.

...add barbed wire armbands and meaningless kanji tattoos and I'm there.

Or maybe if you don't pass a breathalyzer you have to get it in disappearing ink..

It'd also be a great way to maybe try out a design or tattoo to see if you actually like how it looks on your body. I'm actually really excited about this because the only thing that's kept me from getting a tattoo is the lack of a concept of something so awesome I want it on me forever.

However, correct me if I'm wrong, but the article sounds like this ink is just as permanent, just easier to remove.



[Edited on Apr 27, 2006 by Keith]

As someone who has always wanted a tattoo but doesn't pretend to know what I'll want in 30 years, I'm very excited about this.

Getting a tattoo that's easily removed only defeats the "purpose" of getting one if your purpose was to have a specific piece on you permanently. My purpose has more to do with having specific artwork for the foreseeable future, with the option to change it should I change into a different person in the next 60 years.

Really? You've never wanted anything for just a while before?