Signs of past relationships, in the form of permanent tattoos, can be troublesome.
During the past several years I’ve noticed an increase in the number of clients who declare their regret at having gotten a tattoo of a lover’s name. These range from a male client who had a girlfriend’s name – complete with roses and hearts – scrawled down his entire right arm, to a young woman who had a partner’s name inked in a large sweeping arc across her lower (no, a little lower) back .
Both had regrets, because of negative stereotypes they’d had to confront.
The young man wanted to stop explaining to everyone why the name on his arm was not that of his current girlfriend. People wondered if he had been drunk when he got tattooed, and asked endless questions about
the immortalized girl, who he now was trying to forget. It was embarrassing to his …
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