What is ”in” today is out tomorrow.  What’s hot one minute is not the next.  It seems nothing has any permanence anymore, evident with the removal of tattoos, and the growing number of people lining up to remove unwanted ink.   Tattoos were once the iconic symbol of permanent and forever, but now tattoos phase in and fade out along with the rest of life’s passing phases.

Yesterday’s young, single, impulsive, and tattooed are tomorrow’s middle aged, married, conformists getting tattoos removed.  The irreversible and irredeemable fears of permanent tattoos are being removed by advance tattoo removal technology.

Today, indecisiveness and noncommittal are “no problem” when it comes to tattoos. Blame it on new know-how or good old fashion regret, either way you break it down tattoos are coming off.

But what is unreal are the number of noncommittal in the middle who have always wanted a tattoo but have been afraid of the permanence, yet now these people are looking forward to getting tattooed with removable ink.   Perhaps, they feel with this new fangled ink they will be getting a real tattoo when, in fact, they really won’t be.

The fact is, tattoos were once the ultimate symbol of permanent commitment, and now are easily removed from existence.  Maybe this is definitely a sign of the path technology is moving the world forward on, or rather rewind, remove, and forward on.

Bookmark It