With the number of tattooed Australians at an all-time high, removals are an increasingly common story
Peter 'Spida’ Everitt having an ankle tattoo removed at a Gold Coast clinic by laser technician Holly Carter.Peter 'Spida’ Everitt having an ankle tattoo removed at a Gold Coast clinic by laser technician Holly Carter.The year Peter “Spida” Everitt became a professional AFL player, he was a love-smitten teenager.
“Just one of those kinda surfy bands you got back in the 1990s,” Everitt says. “It was the same vintage as the barbed wire you got around the top of your arm.”The relationship, as with many teenage romances, did not last. The tattoo, however, has remained a permanent reminder. But not for much longer.
At least one in four Australians sport ink, and accompanying that trend is an increasing number of people with tattoo regret.A 2019 survey of 1,008 Australians conducted by McCrindle Research suggests 22% of those bearing tattoos regret having at least one of them. About 25% had started to – or were looking to – undergo tattoo removal.
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