{"id":3470,"date":"2006-12-27T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/27\/3470"},"modified":"2006-12-27T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T05:45:36","slug":"removable-tatoo-ink-will-be-available-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/removable-tatoo-ink-will-be-available-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Removable tatoo ink will be available soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/living\/2003491359_removetattoo24.html\" rel=\"external\">I&#8217;m pretty excited about this:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York-based Freedom-2 LLC says their ink &#8220;will create an expanded market for body art \u00e2\u20ac\u201d since consumers can be now assured that the tattoo will come off easily and without exorbitant cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will open a floodgate for people who want tattoos,&#8221; says Dr. Bruce Saal, a Los Gatos, Calif., dermatologist who specializes in laser tattoo removal and has invested in the company. &#8220;People will say, &#8216;I want to do something a little wild. Now that I know it&#8217;s not a lifelong commitment, I&#8217;ll do it.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does it work?<\/strong> This revolutionary ink &#8212; only available in black for now &#8212; is encapsulated in microscopic polymethylmethacrylate beads (the same synthetic material used to make surgical glue) that fall apart when exposed to laser energy, after which the body&#8217;s natural ability to expel foreign particles kicks in and does the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much will it cost?<\/strong> Freedom-2&#8217;s CEO predicts the ink should only add about $50 to the cost of an average tattoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty excited about this: New York-based Freedom-2 LLC says their ink &#8220;will create an expanded market for body art \u00e2\u20ac\u201d since consumers can be now assured that the tattoo will come off easily and without exorbitant cost.&#8221; &#8220;I think it will open a floodgate for people who want tattoos,&#8221; says Dr. Bruce Saal, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}