Your Tattoo Might Have Printer Ink or Car Paint in It
- The FDA isn’t sure of the long-term effects on the human body
- ‘You don’t see a lot of tattoos on lawyers and engineers’
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Emily Pratt wasn’t impressed when she heard about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe into the potentially deleterious effects of tattoo ink. She would have shrugged to show how little she cared, but she was a bit sore from the tattoo machine that had just been smacking away at her left forearm.
This was her seventh inking, after all: a wrap-around bouquet of six roses in shades of yellow and red rendered at Embassy Tattoos in Washington. “The fact that I’m here,” the 22-year-old said, recovering in the waiting room near a stuffed mongoose, “says I’m not worried about the side effects.”