Tattoo removal - anyone undergone it?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

I'd rather have a removal than a cover up, I'm guessing it will be agonizingly painful and bastard expensive but what the heck.

Anyone been through this?

[bobo746]

a mates missus got it done and she reckons it hurt more than getting the original tat and it can leave a scar

[The Gentleman Scamp]

I don't care about the pain, how expensive is it and where can I get it done?

[socal]

i want to get into the business because i think it will do well in the years to come. It is rare not to have tatoo's these days.

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

I think you should get your tattoo removed too, it is unsightly and unbecoming to a Gentleman, which is what you are

[withnallstoke]

My ex had a tattoo removed from her arm.
It was done over several months, a bit at a time, with a different laser for each colour, and the cost was over three thousand quid (10 years ago).
Whilst there was no scarring, the patch where the tattoo had been stayed a white colour no matter how much sun it recieved and looked as bad (almost) as the original tattoo (a fucking confederate flag !).

[kingwilly]

Drunk father Eugene 'Stonner' Ashley tattoos three year old son with 'DB' | thetelegraph.com.au

Drunk father Eugene 'Stonner' Ashley tattoos three year old son with 'DB'
From: Daily Mail April 07, 2011 11:31AM 8 comments



Eugene Ashley pleads guilty to tattooing his son. Source: The Daily Telegraph
A FATHER has been banned from having contact with his son after he tattooed his three-year-old while drunk.

Eugene 'Stonner' Ashley, 26, of Georgia in the US pleaded guilty to giving his son Matthew the tattoo on his shoulder blade and was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay a $300 fine.

He had told police that he was drunk and did not remember tattooing the letters on the toddler’s body.

He tattooed his son with the letters ‘DB’, which are short for ' Daddy's Boy '.

The tattoo was discovered when social workers visited the family home after someone complained about the living conditions.

Officers from the Department of Family and Children Services noticed the tattoo when they visited the house in May 2009 where Ashley lived with his wife Amy and their four children.

Police arrested and charged Ashley with tattooing someone under the age of 18. According to court documents the boy received the tattoo some time between January and May 2009.

Amy Ashley told how she discovered that her son had been given a tattoo. She said: 'My son runs up to me and says "Mummy, I've got a tattoo", and I said "You do", and I said "Does it wash off?", and he said "No it's real".'

She added: 'There's no excuse for what he did. I mean common sense, you just don't tattoo a three-year-old.

'I just wish he hadn't done it.'

The child was taken into custody by the DFCS and is now cared for by the boy’s uncle, George Hawkins.

Mr Hawins claims that Amy Ashley knew about the tattoo for months before her husband was arrested and tried to cover it up with fake tattoos, but she has denied the claims.

[brouhaha]

Why not just sober up? Otherwise you will just get another one.

[bobo746]

^^ they should tattoo fvckwit across that retards forehead

[FailSafe]

The concensus is that it feels like being snapped hard with a rubber band- a couple thousand times- in the exact same spot.

Can't be worse than the time a newly opened spa used me as a test subject and waxed my chest- that was like getting struck by lightning over-and-over...

[Muadib]

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[The Gentleman Scamp]

^ It's a con.

[Little Chuchok]

^^ they should tattoo fvckwit across that retards forehead

Backwards.... or he won't know what the word means when he looks in the mirror.

[FarangRed]

I had two removed about 20 years ago and they did a good job, I think the technology now is much better.

I had it done back in England and I went to the BUPA hospital in Manchester but I cannot remember how much it cost then maybe 400 pounds two small ones.

The pain after was worse then getting them done in the first place and it takes time to heal.

I used to have to go every other day to change the bandages and the nurse she drop some white liquid in to the wound, I have never felt pain like it that fuking hurt.

Having said all that I'm glad I had it done.

[sabaii sabaii]

Looks painless enough

[The Fresh Prince]

How about getting a skin tone specialist to mix you up a batch of your tone of ink and then getting a cover up done with that?

[sabaii sabaii]

^ He's a ginger, he will have giraffe skin

[Seekingasylum]

Why not have the offending area stripped of its epidermic layer and replaced by grafts taken from, say, your inner thigh area? Surely that would be quicker and any scarring would be that much less - well, perhaps not to the inner thigh area but then, who's going to look down there......

They do this all the time in burns units across the globe. Rather than paying for it yourself and going through the agony of a thousand cuts you could simply return to Blighty and have a chum blowtorch the tat and convey you to the nearest A&E where you could claim to be a victim of pyromaniacal attack. Simple really but the initial experience might be best undertaken fortified by drink.

Quite why folk get tats is beyond me. I suppose it resolves to a general dissatisfaction with their own paltry existence and inscribing some icon or other confers an aggrandisement not otherwise achievable.

What does your offending tattoo depict?

Personally, I would have thought being born a swan vesta was quite sufficient.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Quite why folk get tats is beyond me.

Is it really? ..Intelligent man like you, I'm surprised.

Humans have decorated their skin for aeons.. In my case I was just young.

[taxexile]

Humans have decorated their skin for aeons

youd have thought we'd have moved on a bit then.

fashion is transient, with clothes and haistyles you just change them when the fashion has moved on. with tattoos you're stuck with them.

what is so offending about your tattoo that you want it removed?

[nedwalk]

a TATT is part of your journey through life SCAMPY, each should tell a story of who you are and where you were at that time..be as sure in the removal as you were when you got the TATT..

[brouhaha]

Misspelled, no doubt.

[TafkaB]

i want to get into the business because i think it will do well in the years to come. It is rare not to have tatoo's these days.

I read an article a year back about the future of tattoos being easily removable tattoos, not sure if this was the same article but anyway..

Removable Tattoos an Attractive Option - ABC News

[DrAndy]

I'd rather have a removal than a cover up, I'm guessing it will be agonizingly painful and bastard expensive but what the heck.

You can get it done in most hospitals, or even clinics, although some of those are a bit dodgy

not painful at all as they give you painkillers

removing Scum Pie from your forehead should not take too long

[Seekingasylum]

a TATT is part of your journey through life SCAMPY, each should tell a story of who you are and where you were at that time..be as sure in the removal as you were when you got the TATT..

Yes, I can well understand the antipodean celebration of such branding not least because most born there are indelibly stamped by a DNA inherited through penal servitude and the need to keep large numbers of sheep and cows - in both instances the convict and the livestock were invariably marked out for obvious reasons and I supppose you and your ilk are just identifying with your heritage.

However, we civilised folk, sans tats, have no need for such boorish ostentation and are quite content to recall from our own memories rather than to rely upon some cryptic epidermic aide de memoire.

Men sporting rings in their lug ears is another of my pet hates. Traditionally, chaps who did so were either queer as nine bob notes or had rounded the Horn as sailors. Of course many were both but that's by the by. Now it seems anyone from the lower end sports a ring, willy nilly. Horrible to see in a chap.