Tattoos are ugly. Why anyone would want to make themselves look uglier than they already are is beyond me.
How anyone could think that defacing your body by injecting ink into your skin is cool or looks good is also beyond me. It's disgusting. It looks terrible. And it makes you uglier.
Not to mention the damage it does to your skin. Puncturing your skin with small needles at the rate of 50-3000 punctures per minute and injecting ink with each puncture obviously damages your skin. It makes mush out of the epidermal-dermal junction and triggers the inflammatory response. The amazing human body being very adept at healing itself begins the process right away. Immune cells called macrophages gobble up the ink in an effort to clean up the inflammatory mess that was voluntarily created by an obviously less than intelligent individual choosing to mar their own body. The macrophages don't have a way of dissolving or getting rid of the ink -- so the ink eventually settles in the dermis where it is visible through the epidermal layer. After 2 to 3 months the skin completely heals and the person has ink permanently in their skin for the rest of their life. As people age the ink does tend to shift a bit therefore causing the tattoo to blur.
Sounds great right? Sounds like something intelligent people would want to do. But the actual process isn't the worst of it. It's just extremely sad to me to see people with tattoos and how much uglier they make themselves under the guise of trying to be cool or fit in. Seriously, how low does your self-esteem have to be to even consider getting a tattoo?
How sad that people get so confused and reach such a low point in their life. I feel bad for people who think they have to sink so low to be accepted. Seriously, if the people you're associating with are encouraging tattoos or even accepting of them -- you need to rethink your associations. Aim higher. Climb out of the bottom of barrel.
Deliberately vandalizing, marring, disfiguring, scarring or otherwise defacing your own body is just plain stupid.
That's my two cents.
Not to mention the health risk of hepatitis C - which is the leading cause of liver cancer.
ReplyDeletePro-tattoo people may ignore the risk, but it happens.
Most people regret their tattoos (especially the older they get). It's too bad it has to be such a permanent reminder of ones past, because I know some good people who wish they could erase them.