金融时报:纹身的“后悔药”

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纹身的“后悔药”

当年轻的你去纹身的时候，你可否想过，人是多么善变，而纹身却如此顽固。好消息是，新的技术已经让祛除纹身变得更加容易。但遗憾的是，即使是最尖端的技术也无法去掉所有纹身。对于纹身，有哪些“后悔药”可供我们选择呢？

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

remorse[rɪ'mɔːs] n懊悔，悔恨

stigma['stɪɡmə] n.耻辱，污名

linger['lɪŋɡər] vi.逗留，消磨

dermatologist[ˌdɜːrmə'tɑːlədʒɪst] n.皮肤科医生

pigment['pɪɡmənt] n.色素，颜料

practitioner[præk'tɪʃənər] n.从业者

premium['priːmiəm] n.额外费用，奖金

How to correct a taboo tattoo(672 words)

By Kathleen Baird-Murray

According to the British Association of Dermatologists, one in five British adults now has one or more tattoos. But how many of those will go on to regret them? Given that most people with tattoos get inked in their youth, at a time when no one can imagine love for a partner or a circle of barbed wire or Rebel Wilson’s Mexican Worm (as seen in Bridesmaids) ever fading, the potential for remorse is high.

The professional stigma lingers in many careers and cultures: one City of London broker tells me his colleagues get theirs done in areas that are easy to cover up, like on the wrist where the watch goes, or on “the butt cheek”.

“I’ve had people coming in to get tattoos removed because they have an interview for a Middle-Eastern airline,” says Dr Vishal Madan, president of the British Medical Laser Association, who specialises in tattoo removal using a laser, which is still widely considered the most reliable method.

The latest laser — the Picosecond — can reduce the time it takes to remove a tattoo: 15 sessions as opposed to 20, depending on size. But it’s still not 100 per cent effective. “It’s just not true to say all tattoos can be removed, as some salons will claim,” says Dr Madan.

Laser removal works by sending wavelengths of light in specific colours into the skin. The light is absorbed by coloured pigments in the tattoo, raising the temperature in the pigment to levels where the pigment breaks into particles that can be absorbed by white blood cells (macrophages). “The current lasers come in red, green — there is also one for black tattoos. But if you have orange, yellow-toned, or skin-toned pigments, you cannot remove these permanently.”

In the hands of the wrong operator, you can make your tattoo a lot worse. Critically, there is no regulation in the UK for the use of lasers in aesthetic treatments such as tattoo removal. As a practitioner, as long as you have the £120,000 or so for the machine itself, you can open a tattoo removal salon. When you consider that the side effects can include laser burns, blisters, scarring, colour change or ghosting — where the tattoo pigment has gone but you can still see the silhouette of the original — it’s all rather terrifying.

There is also the option of reworking the tattoo into something new, in the manner of Johnny Depp’s infamous “Winona Forever”, for then girlfriend Winona Ryder, which became “Wino Forever”. Or perhaps inspiration can be found in Tattoo Fixers — the reality TV show in which tattoo artists address previous mistakes. If you do try this, it’s recommended that you have one session of laser first to lighten up the offending tattoo, so that you have more options when it comes to covering it.

But perhaps the more sensible option is to ensure that your tattoo is never that big to begin with. Recent months have seen a rise in tiny tattoos, delicate inkings smaller than a thumbnail (such as actress Emilia Clarke’s bee design). Model Bella Hadid recently had a micro rose inked on the back of her left arm, her second minuscule tattoo this year by New York artist Jonathan “Jon Boy” Valena of West 4 Tattoo.

“Over the past few years there’s been a trend towards the tinier ones,” says star tattoo artist Mark Mahoney, whose Los Angeles studio, The Shamrock Social Club, has become famous for creating black-ink fine-lined elaborate-scale works of art on David Beckham and Depp, but is also responsible for Adele’s subtle initial “A”.

“Girls get three, four or five done as single ones in places like behind their ear. For a beginner, it’s the toe-in-the-water tattoo,” says Mahoney, who has a year’s waiting list, and is rumoured to be opening a pop-up at London’s new Mandrake Hotel later this year. “Not everyone can do them. The key is to keep them clean and simple — if they’re done right, they look good for ever.” Which, when you consider that a tattoo is for life, is a very long time.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1.What percentage of adults in Britain have at least one tattoo?

A. Around 10%.

B. Around 15%.

C. Around 20%.

D. Around 25%.

答案(1)

2.According to the article, why do some people get their tattoos done on the wrist?

A. Tiny tattoos on the wrist is a more sensible option for tattoo beginners.

B. Tattoos on the wrist can be removed by picosecond laser permanently.

C. Tiny tattoos on wrist are increasingly popular in recent months.

D. Tattoos on the wrist are easy to be covered up by watch.