09.24.07 5:00 AM CDT
• Pop Culture
• Matt DeMazza
Our intern Nicole DeLuca knows something about art history—emphasis on the history. We’ve all done regrettable things that we hope won't permanently affect us. I’ve had friends who, on spring break, woke up the next morning with tramp stamps. While some unlucky friends woke up with worse, those with tattoos no longer have to live with the evidence.
The American Academy of Dermatology reports that new there is a state-of-the-art laser that targets the pigment in a tattoo. "It goes through the skin without damaging it and hits the pigment depending on which wavelength and which color you have, and it blows it into small pieces."
Patients with bigger tattoos have the option to receive anesthetic, and the likeliness of scarring is minimal. The cost varies depending on the doctor and how big the tattoo is, but to some people, having years of regret vanish has no price. Justin Timberlake and 50 cent may be tired of technology, but I’m not. It’s time to rethink that dodgy Chinese symbol that probably means something raunchy instead of “faith” or a tribal band that was semi-cool in 1997.
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