[Master]

Getting a tattoo is not a decision to rush into without thinking things through. After all, it’s no walk in the park to get ink out of your skin after you’ve had it injected by way of thousands upon thousands of needle punctures. At least it isn’t easy right now. PhD student Alec Falkenham at Dalhousie University is working on a cream that he thinks will be able to remove an ill conceived tattoo without further abusing your skin.

When the cream is applied to a tattoo, the active compounds absorb into the skin where they encounter the macrophages left over from the tattooing process. Just as the macrophages originally consumed the ink particles, they will pick up the newly arrived particles and sign their own death warrant. The macrophages die and a new wave of macrophages spring into action to remove the debris. Falkenham believes that after enough applications, the ink from the original tattoo could be mostly cleared. Early estimates suggest weekly applications for a few months, but lasers aren’t particularly fast either.

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[Nyx]

Remember to link to sources when you just copy something (putting the website name in the quote doesn't cut it because people might want to read the full article), also try to start a discussion to spark activity in the thread.

Anyways, I'm surprised nobody actually thought of this before, it's a problem that a lot of people have; both my mother and father have some really fucked up tattoos that they want to get rid of but they can't really justify spending a bunch of money to get the tattoo removed. It'd be great if they had a breakthrough that could make it a one time application and it was over with, but still weekly applications isn't terrible either.

[Master]

Remember to link to sources when you just copy something (putting the website name in the quote doesn't cut it because people might want to read the full article), also try to start a discussion to spark activity in the thread.

Anyways, I'm surprised nobody actually thought of this before, it's a problem that a lot of people have; both my mother and father have some really fucked up tattoos that they want to get rid of but they can't really justify spending a bunch of money to get the tattoo removed. It'd be great if they had a breakthrough that could make it a one time application and it was over with, but still weekly applications isn't terrible either.

I didn't bother as it's on the main page. Here is the source

[Sky]

Pretty impressive, seems a lot less painful than getting a laser ran over your skin.

[Eclipse]

But the question is, does it work?

[roger_smith]

But the question is, will it blend?

FIFY

[Eclipse]

FIFY

Hmm, yeah. What's worse than an ugly tattoo? The ugly remnants of your ugly tattoo.

[roger_smith]

Hmm, yeah. What's worse than an ugly tattoo? The ugly remnants of your ugly tattoo.

[Eclipse]

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Euw. I don't understand why anyone would do that...

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Euw. I don't understand why anyone would do that...

They're just waiting to get some of the new cream.