“It’s $50 to get a tattoo, and add a few zeros to get rid of it.”
The quote comes from a cosmetic dermatologist in a WSJ story about teens who want to get tattoos—and the parents who sometimes go along with their kids’ desires.
Here’s some more wisdom from Ranella Hirsch, the Cambridge, Mass.-based dermatologist quoted above:
“Tattoos are like Facebook” photos on the Internet, Dr. Hirsch tells teens. Once applied, “they never really go away.” Instead, “what we do in most cases is lighten the tattoo. We get it to be a lot less obvious, but we are rarely able to completely remove it.” Three or more laser treatments are usually required, starting at several hundred dollars each.