Tattoos – the latest must-have accessory in Hollywood
Tattoos, tattoos. Popular permanent body art which everyone loves to show around. However not all tattoos looks good. In fact some of them are blatantly bad that some people might even regret getting the tattoo in the first place. Sometimes tattoos have their own meaning, and sometimes are totally insignificant.
Tattoos are big business. With stars dripping in them, they’re no longer just for criminals and salty old sea dogs.But with permanent “body art” there comes a catch – a big one, depending on the size of your tattoo.
If you change your mind about it, fall out of love with that Tibetan symbol or split up with a lover whose name you had etched into your epidermis, suddenly that tattoo will look rather ridiculous.
The film star got the tattoo, which spreads along her back and over her rear – in 2004 when she was in Thailand.
She’s already had enough tattoos to put a heavy metal rocker to shame, but Amy Winehouse’s latest body etching appears to be her strangest yet.
The troubled singer, 24, was spotted showing off an American eagle behind a stars-and-stripes ankh cross as she left her London home yesterday.
As the king of birds, the eagle symbolises might and spiritual growth.
Once etched on your skin, tattoos are a lifetime reminder that you once thought Sanskrit symbols were cutting edge.Or you really loved that girl. Or had a fascination with butterflies.
If you happen to change your mind, however, the process of removal is long, expensive and has no guarantee of success.
Until now. Doctors have come up with a durable ink that doesn’t have to last a lifetime. The “regret-free tattoo”, as it is known, can be dissolved away in a single laser treatment.
It could be just the thing for those fainthearted types secretly yearning for a body art collection to rival David Beckham’s.
Previously they had two choices – take the plunge with the real thing or get a temporary transfer tattoo, which goes on with water and lasts a week or so.
Now, thanks to the erasable ink, developed with the help of dermatologists at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, they can have the design of their dreams safe in the knowledge that it can be wiped away in one laser session. Laser removal of conventional tattoos, on the other hand, can take up to 12 sessions spread over two years and costs around £2,000. Some evidence of the tattoo may remain, as well as scarring and discoloration.
In the new tattoo, the ink is encased in microscopic polymer capsules and injected into the skin with a conventional tattooing needle. As long as the colour remains inside the capsules, the tattoo stays put. But when a laser beam shoots holes in the capsules, the dye escapes. It then breaks down before being naturally removed by the body.
Known as microencapsulation, the process is already used in medicines which are released on contact with stomach enzymes. Made by New York firm Freedom-2, the ink is due to go on sale in the US later this year. But British dermatologists are sceptical. They pointed out that the onus is on tattoo artists to use such dyes. They also warned of a risk of allergic reactions to the polymer capsules.
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