If you are anything like me, and you know that you are, then you have lived your life by the tenets laid down by the basketball coach in the movie Teen Wolf. Those rules are:
Never get less than twelve hours of sleep.
Never play cards with a guy who has the first name as a city.
Never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body.
How will those poor women with dagger-laden skin find a mate now?
Well, according to recent studies, tattoo remorse is sweeping the nation as fast as the tattoo fad swept the nation in the nineties. Unless you were some sort of rogue empiricist, you might make a connection.
This tattoo remorse, a specialized form of buyer's remorse, is causing a boom in business for dermatologists. American mothers have also noted that their I-told-you-so output is up by 35%. Ex-hipsters everywhere are jumping off the tattoo ship because they grew up to be PTA members and anesthesiologists.
The process of tattoo removal is painful. According to one woman interviewed by CNN, the process felt like being continuously stung by bees. Most people say the removal hurts about ten times worse than the application. Removal is also about ten time more expensive. Bad choices equals big money.
If you've got a tribal tattoo, an anchor on your forearm or one of those hearts with the thorns all over it and you regret it, click here to find a dermatologist near you.