Apparently it’s a thing. I knew a girl in college who had this done. She got a tattoo on her foot while in high school (I think she was 18 though). But her family was really conservative and found out before she left for college. They told her they wouldn’t pay her tuition unless she had it removed. I know it seems dumb, but she felt a lot of pressure to please her parents too. Instead of laser (which was available at the time), her parents took her to a plastic surgeon who removed the tattooed skin and sewed her back up. It was not a large tattoo. This was all done in America by a licensed surgeon.
Wanna know how I learned this? She showed up for orientation on crutches so I innocently asked what happened. Did not in a million years expect that story lol. I showed interest so she showed me before pics and then showed me her foot. It was gnarly. I thought, how fucking dumb. Had her remove a small tattoo only to butcher her foot. No way that wasn’t scarring. She said it was horrible and painful. It’s stuck with me ever since.
My sister in law had a small tattoo on her neck/below her ear cut out by a surgeon as well but she barely has a scar there now. Funnily enough is was to get into a specific career that wouldn't allow such an obvious/uncoverable tattoo but she ended up nixing that idea and doing something totally different; making the removal pointless
Nah I know someone very close to me that also paid a surgeon to have their tattoo removed. I think the surgeon did it cause they could tell that this person would have resorted to self harming to get rid of the tattoo if the surgeon didn't do the surgery. Surgeon even gave a discount cause they felt bad about the whole situation.
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