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Millennials looking to fix overpiercing, remove tattoos
And it's not just ear piercing. Many are seeking to reverse the impulsive, perhaps keg-fueled decisions of their not-quite-lost youths. That tongue piercing, that bone through the nose, that conspicuously placed tattoo you got in college may not go over so big now in a job interview, or in the board room. It's time to conform to the real world.
"A lot of things that are great for the club are not great for the interview," he adds. "One of the things we teach is wear a very conservative suit. And I get push-back on that. 'Do you want us all to look the same? You told us to differentiate ourselves.' It sounds contradictory, but I want a dark suit and a light shirt or blouse so that people are looking at your face and listening to what you say. The tattoo doesn’t help. It is incredibly distracting." "I had a guy who wanted to join the military, and because he had this gauge deformity, he felt he had to get it fixed," Sterman says. "You are allowed certain tattoos, but things are still very strict. He had this huge loop for an earlobe." It's almost like confession and absolution for inkies. Wipe away your filthy inkiness! |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:40:22 PM EST
Nah, I'm good.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:40:50 PM EST
I wear earrings. My wife dressed up like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz the other night and let me hit it doggy style, whats up?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:41:51 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
I wear earrings. My wife dressed up like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz the other night and let me hit it doggy style, whats up? lol'd |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:42:24 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
I wear earrings. My wife dressed up like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz the other night and let me hit it doggy style, whats up? Let you? Lol |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:42:30 PM EST
No surprise here. " this seemed like a good idea at the time, but looking like a spray painted turd with holes in it somehow just didn't turn out like I thought it would".
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:43:15 PM EST
Are you trying to say that a neck tattoo was a bad idea?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:44:16 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By mtnbkr5234:
Let you? Lol Well, she actually told me to. I prefer lazy man style on my side. I think being circumsized made my shit less sensitive, so I can only bust a nut certain ways. I wiggle my toes when I'm about to jizz, don't know if thats normal, though. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:44:42 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
I wear earrings. My wife dressed up like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz the other night and let me hit it doggy style, whats up? 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:47:53 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By pcsutton:
Dude...that's just....sick. She wouldn't dress up like The Cowardly Lion, so Dorthy was a compromise. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:48:25 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
I wear earrings. My wife dressed up like Dorthy from The Wizard of Oz the other night and let me hit it doggy style, whats up? It's all good, unless she was calling you Toto. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:49:51 PM EST
And here I am working on full sleeves....At 50
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WV, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:52:14 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
Well, she actually told me to. I prefer lazy man style on my side. I think being circumsized made my shit less sensitive, so I can only bust a nut certain ways. I wiggle my toes when I'm about to jizz, don't know if thats normal, though. Can you only do anal too? |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:52:58 PM EST
Cougars just get hotter with each passing year. Sexy as hell.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:56:06 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Backnblack:
And here I am working on full sleeves....At 50 That can certainly work. I worked with a guy that was an IT executive with full sleeves and a full back piece. You would never know it with a dress shirt on. It's the guys getting massive neck or facial tats that may be limiting the industries they can work in. I am seeing more floppy earlobes from removed gauges every year, too. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:57:27 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
Well, she actually told me to. I prefer lazy man style on my side. I think being circumsized made my shit less sensitive, so I can only bust a nut certain ways. I wiggle my toes when I'm about to jizz, don't know if thats normal, though. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runfrumu:
Originally Posted By mtnbkr5234:
Let you? Lol Well, she actually told me to. I prefer lazy man style on my side. I think being circumsized made my shit less sensitive, so I can only bust a nut certain ways. I wiggle my toes when I'm about to jizz, don't know if thats normal, though. Diesel? Is that you? |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:57:40 PM EST
Meh. I don't regret shit. These people are pussies.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 1:59:47 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By BigheadCCT:
Diesel? Is that you? I miss Diesel. 
But unlike Diesel, I have never fucked a tranny. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:00:25 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By aBADidea:
Can you only do anal too? Is that an offer. I have to warn you, I'm not gentle. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:03:38 PM EST
Karma
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NC, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:04:23 PM EST
Fuck 'em.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:04:31 PM EST
Next you'll tell me people regret buying beanie babies! Tattoos are a fad, like every other fad the popularity will fade. Unfortunately you can't just put your tattoos in a box in the attic and hope they'll be cool again some day
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:05:41 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By runfrumu:
She wouldn't dress up like The Cowardly Lion, so Dorthy was a compromise. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runfrumu:
Originally Posted By pcsutton:
Dude...that's just....sick. She wouldn't dress up like The Cowardly Lion, so Dorthy was a compromise.
TC |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:07:32 PM EST
The tattoos don't bother me, but these idiots who put these big meat hoops in their ears to stretch out their ear lobes like some kind of Zulu warrior, I look at these people and just shake my head. I hope they enjoy working at QuickTrip because no one is ever going to give them a job anywhere else.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:08:37 PM EST
Inkyness cannot be removed. It's a stain on the soul.
We pureskins recognize this and treat them accordingly 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:10:19 PM EST
"But how can I be a special snowflake, unique in all the world, for all to worship, if I don't have a vagina-butterfly tattooed on my neck?"
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:12:10 PM EST
I have always said that if I wanted a sudden career change, I would learn how to do tattoo removal. I imagine that a person could make a dump truck full of money if they set up shop in the right place. Maybe I should go learn...
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:13:49 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Number0neGun:
Meh. I don't regret shit. These people are pussies. 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:13:59 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By motown_steve:
The tattoos don't bother me, but these idiots who put these big meat hoops in their ears to stretch out their ear lobes like some kind of Zulu warrior, I look at these people and just shake my head. I hope they enjoy working at QuickTrip because no one is ever going to give them a job anywhere else. Good. I like to have instant visual ID of people who make poor, life-changing decisions with little regard to their negative consequences. Weeding them out up front makes it easier to hire people who DO make good decisions. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:15:19 PM EST
Seems some folks are finding out that many companies are kind of uptight about hiring people who look like carnies.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:15:50 PM EST
Pussies
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:18:20 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Frog_Legs:
Inkyness cannot be removed. It's a stain on the soul. We pureskins recognize this and treat them accordingly I don't know. Tattoo removal is not a painless process and to be willing to undergo it shows sincere regret. I think Tattoo removal is the equivalent of the sacrament of reconciliation for inkies. They are forgiven, but still have some temporal consequences. I'm not willing to condemn someone who is willing to go to that much effort to repent of their filthy inkiness. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:20:22 PM EST
In before DK_Prof!
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:21:31 PM EST
Years ago had a damn dirty inkie as a manager, when departments were 100+
He'd wear long sleeve shirts to hide the Marine emblem on his forearm |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:31:49 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Equator:
Are you trying to say that a neck tattoo was a bad idea? No, it takes a lot of commitment to say you're going to live in a trailer park all your life. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:38:39 PM EST
I was in Savannah yesterday and walked by a tattoo shop on one block and a tattoo removal place on the next. Never got into them myself but whatever.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:40:27 PM EST
Saw a late 20s/early 30s girl working at a fast food restaurant recently. She had a strip of cloth tied around her neck mostly hiding her neck tat.
I'm 51, and spent 6+ years in the Navy. I don't get the appeal of tattoos, but to each his/her own. Just don't bitch if your actions have consequences. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:41:17 PM EST
Shiiiiiiiiiiit! I got a mil/gov job after I retired from the Army. Now I'm thinking about getting the tops of my hands tattoo'd because I couldn't while I served.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:44:25 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By woodxdm:
Next you'll tell me people regret buying beanie babies! Tattoos are a fad, like every other fad the popularity will fade. Unfortunately you can't just put your tattoos in a box in the attic and hope they'll be cool again some day Yeah any day now that decades old fad is just gonna fade away. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:44:42 PM EST
[Last Edit: 12/19/2016 2:45:39 PM EST by dan45678]
How can people not see that tattoos are a terrible idea in the first place? They're universally hideous and stupid. And expensive.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:49:13 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Number0neGun:
Meh. I don't regret shit. These people are pussies. I don't regret any of my tattoos either but I'm not sure I'd call them pussies. They just failed to make themselves useful/respected in a valuable field. I work for a large corporation and have a full sleeve that probably half of our executives have seen and yet I still get called upon by our corporate group and get assigned to the important projects because I've made my worth known. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:50:13 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By dan45678:
How can people not see that tattoos are a terrible idea in the first place? They're universally hideous and stupid. And expensive. Typically the hideous and stupid ones aren't expensive, with tattoos you really do get what you pay for |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:55:16 PM EST
I would like to thank OP for a solid addition to the word-usage/spelling canon:
inkiness: something printers worry about inkyness: refers to tats |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 2:56:52 PM EST
[Last Edit: 12/19/2016 2:59:07 PM EST by RolandofGilead]
I guess I don't regret any of mine because I'm just barely not a millennial. Whew, dodged that bullet. And I even have some pretty questionable ink
ETA- though all my ink is covered by shirt, shorts and shoes so I suppose that helps too.... |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:00:42 PM EST
[Last Edit: 12/19/2016 3:00:57 PM EST by Jahdai42]
All of my inkie friends were in the service, the one with the most tattoos was MI and is making millions in infosec.
I like some nice titty piercings but you can keep all the strange facial stuff. <---cleanskin |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:03:04 PM EST
My only contribution to this thread, is that gauged lobes are VERY difficult to repair well.
So if there is ANY possibility that you want to have "normal" lobes, stop now with increasing the diameter. And, BTW, the $1-2K estimate is for EACH lobe.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:12:24 PM EST
[Last Edit: 12/19/2016 3:14:33 PM EST by Extorris]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Photosarv:
I have always said that if I wanted a sudden career change, I would learn how to do tattoo removal. I imagine that a person could make a dump truck full of money if they set up shop in the right place. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Photosarv:
I have always said that if I wanted a sudden career change, I would learn how to do tattoo removal. I imagine that a person could make a dump truck full of money if they set up shop in the right place. My friend who does it makes very good money. Originally Posted By RatherBeLifting:
Originally Posted By Equator:
Are you trying to say that a neck tattoo was a bad idea? No, it takes a lot of commitment to say you're going to live in a trailer park all your life. Meh, I have two and no trailer park here. Just get a job were they're allowed. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:16:36 PM EST
The best ones are the ones who went to scratchers to get free Bernie tattoos during the primary.
http://thetab.com/us/2016/07/14/we-asked-sanders-fans-if-they-regret-getting-bernie-tattoos-28202 |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:22:55 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Extorris:
My friend who does it makes very good money. Meh, I have two and no trailer park here. Just get a job were they're allowed. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Extorris:
Originally Posted By Photosarv:
I have always said that if I wanted a sudden career change, I would learn how to do tattoo removal. I imagine that a person could make a dump truck full of money if they set up shop in the right place. My friend who does it makes very good money. Originally Posted By RatherBeLifting:
Originally Posted By Equator:
Are you trying to say that a neck tattoo was a bad idea? No, it takes a lot of commitment to say you're going to live in a trailer park all your life. Meh, I have two and no trailer park here. Just get a job were they're allowed. Or keep them easily hidden. Either way... |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:26:23 PM EST
Piercings and gauges are getting out of hand. When I retire, I want to get a sleeve.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:30:27 PM EST
Every generation grows up hating everything about their parents, and vows to be "different." Eventually, with a little maturity, they almost all have a "OMG I've become my mother/father" moment. This would be one symptom of that.
I've said for years this tattoo fad is silly in the extreme, because fads come and go--but tattoos just come, they never go. 
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