This is a follow up to a previous review I wrote under the title "Coping with tattoo regret and removal." I signed off for a bit but then was not able to continue with my old account. I will sum up my previous review and update you on my current progress. I got my very first tattoo in Jan 2013. It's a fairly large, colorful tattoo on my left arm. About a month later, regret set in and I began...
I originally got a small "tramp stamp" my sophomore year of college when my roommates and myself played hookey from school and somehow ended up at a scummy tattoo parlor. The artist's work was very poor to say the least and my small tattoo was etched so deep it is basically very thick scar tissue across the middle of my lower back. 12 years later it is still elevated on my skin. 9 years ago...
14 years ago, when I was 18, I got my second tattoo. I wish that the artist had asked me one question. That question being, "Are you going to love this location for the rest of your life?" In the last 14 years, I have gotten several more tattoos, I've even covered one that wasn't one of my better ideas, but it always comes back to a tattoo with a location I no longer love. Before getting a...
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