Tatts

One of my coworkers showed up for work with a different look. Her face was tattooed. Black arched eyebrows swooped across her face in a dramatic, permanent look of surprise. Black rings surrounded her eyes and the finishing touch was a black dot on her cheek, a beauty mark. For a blonde, especially, I'm not sure about the wisdom in choosing black, permanent make-up.

Her look is both theatrical and clown-like, in my opinion. She seems happy with it, though. And all of that work only cost one hundred dollars. She was especially proud of the bargain basement price. I hope that someday when she is old and the black lines are sagging, she is still happy about her bargain tattoos. Her next project is lip liner. In my humble opinion, that will be another big mistake. Unless she always wears lipstick, there will be an odd red line circling her lips. It is not a flattering look.

Also on the subject of tattoos, one of our patients has an unusual tattoo. It is in her rectum. I don't mean around her bottom, I mean that the tattoo is inside the first three inches of her rectum. I have no idea why. Except for that, she seems perfectly normal. I really don't understand it.