Dangers of Decorating Your Body

Dangers of Decorating Your Body

Dangers of Decorating Your Body
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ointment, salve, halfway, professional, dare, design, huge, painful, eyebrow, ankle, appointment, parlor, reaction, pale, remember, cause

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Dangers of Decorating Your Body
By Patti Hutchison

¹     Do you want a tattoo? How about piercing your eyebrow, nose, or tongue? Tattoos and piercings might look cool, but are they safe?

²     Sue wanted a tattoo. All her friends were getting one. She decided to go along.

³     All she wanted was a small ladybug on the top of her foot. But when she got to the tattoo parlor, there were no ladybug designs.

⁴     "I should have stopped, then and there," she says now. "But I wanted a tattoo so badly. All my friends were there with me. I was afraid they'd make fun of me if I backed out."

⁵     So, she picked another design. When it was over, Sue had a large butterfly on her ankle.

⁶     "At first, I hated it. But I finally decided I'd better get used to it. It is going to be there for the rest of my life," she says.

⁷     Sue was lucky. Even though she was disappointed with the design and the location of her tattoo, things could have been much worse.

⁸     Tattoo artists use needles to prick your skin thousands of times a minute. The needles inject dye into your skin. That's what makes the picture.

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