The whole reason tattoos are so cool is that they literally become a part of you after you get one. They can’t be erased – at least not without some expensive laser surgery. There’s a certain cool factor in being confident enough in your feelings about Professor Farnsworth or the Triforce to get them permanently etched into your skin.
On the flip-side, though, it’s all too common for people to get a tattoo that they later very much regret. Whether it’s the name of a college girlfriend you’ve long since broken up with, the name of that emo band you thought was cool in the early 2000s, or a veritable collage of anime characters from the 80s and 90s, some tattoo choices can come back to haunt you.
That may be a thing of the past, though, now that Japanese companies are offering removable tattoo sleeves!
Behold!
Following hot on the heels of the tattoo stockings that were all the rage among Japanese women last year (but have, as you might expect, since fallen out of favor), at least one manufacturer decided that dudes shouldn’t have to miss out on the cool fashion phenomenon, and has recently started pumping out tattoo sleeves to be worn on the arm.
I can attest that the tattoo stockings that took Tokyo by storm last year really did look like actual tattoos, even up close, but when you take a look at promotional images for the tattoo sleeves, something immediately looks… off:
My guess is that since the tattoo stockings ended around the waist – an area typically concealed by clothing – there was no telltale line immediately visible, but unless you’re planning on wearing leather gloves around all day, the tattoo sleeves have an obvious line around the wrist where the material begins.
Still, it’s a cool idea and they look realistic enough as long as you’re wearing appropriate attire, so they could be the perfect way to take a tattoo idea out for a test drive before deciding to actually get inked.
https://twitter.com/Watanabe69M/status/417331238735597568Source: Naver Matome
Photos: DeNA, AliExpress
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