flatfootjoe
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"...they have tattoos removed".
In my day, removal was not an easy thing. The tattoo was applied with electrolysis? Removal involved something like skin grafting. But an hour ago, the clerk at my liquor store sported his bare upper-body at the cashier inviting me to study his tattoos. They looked as though they were "ink" rather than electrolysis. Is THAT why I've been reading about mineral spirits and tattoo parlors? Am I to believe that the removal is as easily done as scrubbing an "inked tattoo" with vigor?
I can think of someone in the Sons of Anarchy who would have preferred a good scrubbing as opposed to the blow torch his demented and depraved fellow club members ceremoniously used to remove his motor-cycle logo from his back.
Progress in art is a beautiful thing.
BBM. Removal is still, expensive, painful, time consuming, and it's done with a laser. Pretty sure you knew that though
The only reason a tattooist would use mineral spirits would be to clean the equipment JMO. Which seems prohibitively expensive to me. Alcohol is much more cost effective, and an autoclave would be a much cheaper alternative for sterilization after the initial investment, even for an "in house artist". Although most in house guys I know consider alcohol an efficient precaution. (shudder)
That branding stuff, it works too, but damn...