People who get tattoos may be putting poisonous chemicals
into their skin because they don't know what ingredients are
in the dyes. But tattoos and body piercing will soon be passe
anyway?the newest fad will be creating new body parts and
grafting them onto your body.
The European Commission says most of the inks used in
tattoos were originally developed for other purposes, such as
automobile paints or printing, and warns, "Would you inject
car paint into your skin?" Laws that force tattoo artists to
use gloves and sterile needles do not include rules about
dyes, meaning they could be impure or dirty without breaking
the law.
So stop tattooing and forget piercing, which can cause
infections. Lakshmi Sandhana writes in bbcnews.com that the
Australian artist Stelarc is taking body decoration to a new
level by having a third ear grown from his skin and cartilage
and implanted on his arm. He first wanted to put it in front of
his current right ear, but was told this would be unsafe, so he
settled for his forearm. It won't be able to hear, but with a
sensor and implanted sound chip, the ear will automatically
speak to anyone who gets close to it.
You know nothing about piercing until you've met up with
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