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It's Not Really Ink
CONTINUED FROM ABOVE - END OF POST: Whoever my wife and I chooses to put tattoos on our body, that San Diego parlor better offer Freedom-2 ink or I'm gonna take my business elsewhere. If you're having a tough time finding a tattoo parlor in San Diego that offers Freedom-2 ink to the customer, tell the parlor that you'll only use Freedom-2 ink and if they don't stock it you'll go to a tattoo parlor that does. That's what I'm gonna do. It's all about supply and demand. The bigger the demand the sooner they'll wake up and start using Freedom-2 ink. Finally, someone should introduce the author of this article to the Internet. If he had done his research he could not have helped but run into the many Google page citations relating to Freedom-2 tattoo ink. Also, all of what I've written is old news. Freedom-2 was introduced to the media back around 2005 or 2006. Peace. informative article on freedom-2 ink from harvard university: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/10.19/13… straight from the horses mouth: http://www.freedom2ink.com/ three more related freedom-2 articles: 1) http://www.squidoo.com/freedom2tattooink 2) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/… 3) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/…— March 19, 2008 2:50 p.m.
It's Not Really Ink
And if my local parlor gives me any harsh lip because I want to use Freedom-2 ink, I'll ask him point blank if he's being paid off by the dermatologist industry. It's a lot less work (meaning less sessions) to remove a tattoo made with Freedom-2 ink and that means less money in the pockets of the dermatologists. As the article mentioned, some tattoos tend to fade. Fading will no longer be an issue with Freedom-2. All it'll take is just one session to erase it - compared to 4 or 5 sessions with regular ink - and then that person can have a new one put on. A tattoo parlor owner will diss Freedom-2 ink by whipping out the, "a tattoo is meant to stay on a persons body forever and therefore Freedom-2 sucks so I refuse to stock it on the shelf because I'm true to my art" card. Bunk. He's not telling you the truth because parlor owners make a great deal of money from doing cover ups. If you use Freedom-2 ink, cover ups will be a thing of the past. Suffice to say that both the dermatologists and the tatto parlor owners do not think highly of Freedom-2 ink because they stand to lose money from it. Harvard University, on the other hand, studied Freedom-2 and have nothing but good things to say about it. I posted the link to the Harvard University study at the bottom of this post.— March 19, 2008 2:46 p.m.
It's Not Really Ink
The tattoo industry is about ready to be set on its collective ear. But you wouldn't have known it by reading this story. As the author wrote this article he did so with his head up his you know what. His article touches upon things like old tattoos that start to fade, and the human conditions that a tattoed person might experience, and the "cover ups" that pad the wallets of tattoo parlors. Human conditions like regret and a sorry form of reflection that many people feel many years later after the tattoo is put on their body. There is a new ink that will be released any day now that is going to radically change the way we look at tattoos. The tattoo artists, shop owners, dermatologists and those who sport tattoos will all be strongly affected by this new ink. It was dumb of the author of this article not to mention this soon to be unleashed ink. This new tattoo ink is called Freedom-2. I'm 66 years old. I've always sorta wanted a tattoo but was never really sure. I read where 1 out of 5 people who get a tattoo later get it removed. That's a whole lot of regret going on. That is why I never got a tattoo. Cause I might regret it. I figured that I could be that one person out of the five. People should know that the tattoo removal industry is a big one. A huge one. Almost as big as the viagra pill industry and I'm not joking because I researched the subject online. But now that they have the Freedom-2 ink I've decided to go ahead and get a tattoo. Just as long as my local west San Diego tattoo parlor has it in stock. The Freedom-2 ink sounds just like what the doctor ordered. The wifey might get a tattoo now, too. CONTINUED BELOW— March 19, 2008 2:42 p.m.