Poisoning and filth... almost as bad as the broken feet of Chinese women. What people do to comply with the trends of the time. Nothing has changed. Lots of women still use poisonous cosmetics. While working in a lab I threw out all my cosmetics, reading the safety sheets of most products!
It is going to be horrific. Seeing the young (and now not so young) with tattoos all over their body, I shiver. Why would someone want to do that to their body.........? just don't get it - but it is the "chic" of a generation or so. Maybe those of my age - rapidly approaching my 9th decade........it was something else for us. Maybe it was the "Age of Aquarius" when marijuana and drugs became "chic".........¿quien sabe?
Yes, the so called Hippie generation was persuaded to take "recreational drugs." I watched it, listened to the stories & songs extolling it. Some things never change.
Tattoos have been around for very long. I remember a Chinese film from many years ago, playing hundreds of years back, where a woman got a very large tattoo covering her whole back, and another, where a woman had a tattoo from her neck all the way to her foot. I have a small one myself (due to a bet with my then-boyfriend).
So forever, your "then" boyfriend will be with you. I do hope you "won" the bet. For me, my Dad was in the Navy and spent a fair amount of time in China during the 1930s. He had two (2) tattoos on each arm. Always told me he regret getting them. So that stuck with me.
Well, same here. I should have not accepted the bet. Thankfully it is very small and covered by even a small cap sleeve. No one knows that a marriage will go broken do they.
Tattoo ink contains pigments (organic azo dyes, carbon black, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, chromium, nickel, lead, cobalt) and carriers/additives (water, glycerin, propylene glycol, alcohol, sometimes formaldehyde or PAHs).
Long-term adverse effects include allergic reactions, chronic inflammation, granulomas, fibrosis, pigment migration to lymph nodes, potential carcinogenicity (from PAHs, aromatic amines, metals), and rare links to lymphoma or other cancers.
Heavy metals may cause systemic toxicity.
Effects vary by ink quality and individual sensitivity; research is ongoing.
Thank you, Big E. What I "get" from this is maybe some dyes are maybe better than others? But in the long run, none of it is a good choice. This makes sense, anyway, because the body has enough to do to cleanse itself without something permanently in the skin, presumably sloughing off into internal pathways.
Yep. I have four tattos, all after age 30 when I got my first one. Being from a psychological bent, I know that people get tattoos if they feel a lack of identity. But if I knew that before I got them I wouldn't have gotten them and found a better way to have a sense of identity.
OK, but what is the dye made of? I really have no idea about this. Some people really are "blue" all over with the amount of "art" on their bodies. Has anyone done any investigation as to the health effects?
Tattoo ink contains pigments (organic azo dyes, carbon black, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, chromium, nickel, lead, cobalt) and carriers/additives (water, glycerin, propylene glycol, alcohol, sometimes formaldehyde or PAHs).
Long-term adverse effects include allergic reactions, chronic inflammation, granulomas, fibrosis, pigment migration to lymph nodes, potential carcinogenicity (from PAHs, aromatic amines, metals), and rare links to lymphoma or other cancers.
Heavy metals may cause systemic toxicity.
Effects vary by ink quality and individual sensitivity; research is ongoing.
Yes, Dutch Dermatologists released a study - maybe ten years ago? - the dye contains oxides, black and red specifically can contain lead particles that deposit into the lymph. Over time and with sun exposure, it breaks down into the blood stream. Results in autoimmune conditions and cancer. I wonder if all these autoimmune conditions are connected to tattoos.
At least some certainly would be. Any time you inject any foreign substance into the body (whether tattoo ink or vaccine juice), you should expect such things as anaphylaxis, autoimmune conditions, and cancer.
There are lots of "causes" for auto immune diseases but this surely could be one, I suppose. We won't know until someone does some research. I wonder why we haven't heard of such research yet?
You’re so right about sunscreen. A relative is addicted to it and applies a screen regardless of the weather in a futile effort to keep her skin white and smooth in old age.
It is pretty shocking. I think a lot of actresses have now ruined their faces because they did it. Who knows what happens ten years from now after a weird procedure like that?
I'm curious as to who develops and promotes the fashions which everyone is suppose to admire and copy and are there purposes that we are missing. Recall the tight pants craze in the 70s. Could the lead based face paint used by the aristocracy have been intentionally designed to assist in their overthrow or reduce their fertility or assist in their beliefs in and susceptibility to cults and secret societies which they all belonged to?
WOW! That's one of the best, NEW ideas I've seen in a while.... The lead-based face paint could have been used that way, also, to lessen their fertility rate. Your idea bears thinking about more! THANKS!
Absolutely fascinating article! It does remind one of how utterly stupid we humans often are. Glorifying the path to death and suffering all for the sake of “fashion” and the appearance of wealth and leisure is definitely one of the dumber moments in history.
interesting how many - or most - of the current tech elite also exhibit very pale skin, since they spend most of their time indoors in front of a blue-lit screen and many consider toxic sunscreen an essential to protect against "dangerous" sunlight when they venture outdoors. in fact, in addition to other poisonous compounds sunscreens commonly contain, consumer labs just posted "Lead has been found in nearly 95% of sunscreens tested" (!)
also, makeup was not only toxic in previous times; it is still filled with miscellaneous heavy metals and other unhealthy substances. last time i looked at labels of lipsticks, eye makeup or foundations, nearly all contain quite a list of toxins including even lead, titanium, etc.
Unbekoming, excellent info, thank you. Just a consideration: you maybe should lead with the six year old version. It nailed your point home with a grand slam in four short paragraphs.
Alas, your art is lovingly long but our time is fastly fleeting.
Hmmm....TriTorch.....my view is taking time to ponder thoughts as these is the essences of why he writes and give us time to see how these apply to our current life. Most people want to be "chic" and "fit in" so to speak. When I was in high school - Madras shirts and Keds sneakers with the fashion of the day. And, if you were "chic" you had a Duncan yo-yo.
Hmmmm.....you do mean "Wham-o" yo-yo. And, you must have not lived in a posh neighborhood. Duncan Imperials were for the upcrust - and there weren't many in the hood I grew up in. But, on occasion, someone would have one. Much easier to "sleep" than the Wham-o.
....or was it "Wham-O"?.....btw, does "LSO" mean "landing signal officer", like on a Navy aircraft carrier?.... As for yo-yos, I liked Slinky better!, lol
I don’t think it ever ended. Try watching a Victoria’s Secret fashion show or any fashion show out of Europe. Unfortunately I just have to look at my sister. SMH.
The Twiggy phase. Around the late 70's or so. It did receive a lot of criticism, but it really stuck, anyhow, with young women starving themselves to be "tiny & thin."
I once found a case of scrofula, cutaneous Mycobacterium avium, on a woman living in the same sort of conditions- a mouldy crowded house on a Canadian Indian Reservation. The observable dietary habits of the tribe included highly processed low quality foods, although I didn't know enough at the time to connect the food choices with the infection.
A highly educational article from beginning to end. I didn't know a thing about how much the rich women poisoned themselves to look sickly or the connection between corset wearing and lung disease.
Somewhat related: In the Poldark series (books and 2 TV series) there is a rich man named George Warleggen (a handsome, cruel, greedy man who pretended he was of upper crust heredity) .
He was married to Elizabeth, who had a true aristocratic background. They live in a magnificent house on an estate.
OK. They have this baby named Valentine. Valentine has symptoms and their trusty regular doctor, name Dr. Choake (pronounced "Choke"), prescribed: keeping the windows closed, the child kept indoors always, the baby's linens to not be changed, the child to be allowed to cry and not picked up, etc. You get the drift. George was absolutely mortified that any child of his would have a disease/condition which he believed only the poor suffered from.
With the above treatment, Valentine was getting worse and worse and his mother decided to consult with a young upstart "progressive" doctor named Dwight Enys even though her husband George (described above) did not approve. Well. Dr. Enys prescribed: opening the windows; plenty of fresh air and sunshine, lots of fresh milk and so on and so forth - everything a growing baby needs.
Yes, Valentine got cured. Thought you might find this story interesting for those of you who have never seen Poldark on television or read the books.
I didn't read this whole article but I think I got the gist. The more I'm on this planet the more programs I see that I see my mom and dad just swallowed. And then passed on down to me. And related to this article my mom used to say, after I would complain about her tugging on my snarls as she brushed my hair, "You have to suffer to be beautiful". I remember thinking, but not saying out loud to this authority in my life, "Well then why bother?"
So often heard, “That’s what’s in style.” — “That’s not — MY — style,” I reply. I care not what ‘everyone else is doing’… classically unique, timeless individuality becomes me; as it so does us all. Marching through life in lockstep, removes our uniqueness, in Christ, and who we are to become.
Our uniqueness is ours alone. In that, there are times when ‘disarray pays a visit’… expressing such, often heard is encouragement through the disparagement of others. “Never should that even be considered,” I reply. “It pays no mind, to the judgment of others.” “It’s not egoism, in the least. It’s my ‘day of disarray,’ off-centered, unsettled… we all have them.”
This too, shall pass, moving through it, settling into the teachings of what’s befallen us in this day… Uncomfortable as it may be — tomorrow brings resilience to — the ‘visit.’
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the thing which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — 2nd Corinthians 4:17-18
May God’s Wisdom be upon us all — in all that we are meant to be… not misled by the lies. For “as He is, so am I” — 1 John 4:17 — There is no other — ‘Perfect Love,’ therein… lies our perfection.
Identity. What if we all saw ourselves as made in the image of our creator, and made in great care, with our very own DNA? Would we stoop to such lows???
Corsets are back in a BIG way with the 20something crowd. We can thank Kim Kardashian for that. All the girls with naturally wide hips and large rear ends are aiming to get unnaturally small waists. They don't realize Kim's look is largely AI and surgically enhanced.
More importantly... They do not realize the health repercussions that await them. Just as our youth have been misled into believing they can choose to be male or female — the sheer ignorance of Kim Kardashian is leading them into physical alterations that will, indeed, affect the future of their health & wellness… With all the many lies surrounding humanity, begs the question — Was this INTENTIONAL? The depopulation agenda is clearly upon us. The extremely negative health effects on pregnancy, exerting excessive pressure on the abdomen, compressing internal organs, restricting blood flow, diminishing breathing capabilities, digestive complications — all risking severe internal injuries to the mother and child… what could possibly go wrong?
Poisoning and filth... almost as bad as the broken feet of Chinese women. What people do to comply with the trends of the time. Nothing has changed. Lots of women still use poisonous cosmetics. While working in a lab I threw out all my cosmetics, reading the safety sheets of most products!
It will be interesting to see what the rampant injection of tattoo dyes does to the affected generation.
It is going to be horrific. Seeing the young (and now not so young) with tattoos all over their body, I shiver. Why would someone want to do that to their body.........? just don't get it - but it is the "chic" of a generation or so. Maybe those of my age - rapidly approaching my 9th decade........it was something else for us. Maybe it was the "Age of Aquarius" when marijuana and drugs became "chic".........¿quien sabe?
Yes, the so called Hippie generation was persuaded to take "recreational drugs." I watched it, listened to the stories & songs extolling it. Some things never change.
Tattoos have been around for very long. I remember a Chinese film from many years ago, playing hundreds of years back, where a woman got a very large tattoo covering her whole back, and another, where a woman had a tattoo from her neck all the way to her foot. I have a small one myself (due to a bet with my then-boyfriend).
So forever, your "then" boyfriend will be with you. I do hope you "won" the bet. For me, my Dad was in the Navy and spent a fair amount of time in China during the 1930s. He had two (2) tattoos on each arm. Always told me he regret getting them. So that stuck with me.
Well, same here. I should have not accepted the bet. Thankfully it is very small and covered by even a small cap sleeve. No one knows that a marriage will go broken do they.
We asked ChatGPT: What substances are in tattoo ink? What are the possible long-term adverse effects of these substances?
The answers were thorough and shocking (unfortunately, too much to share here and our computer does have SHARE feature enabled).
Here’s a short answer to the same questions using Grok.com
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_9591e3ac-1bbc-4003-9089-cecd8e3cb783
Tattoo ink contains pigments (organic azo dyes, carbon black, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, chromium, nickel, lead, cobalt) and carriers/additives (water, glycerin, propylene glycol, alcohol, sometimes formaldehyde or PAHs).
Long-term adverse effects include allergic reactions, chronic inflammation, granulomas, fibrosis, pigment migration to lymph nodes, potential carcinogenicity (from PAHs, aromatic amines, metals), and rare links to lymphoma or other cancers.
Heavy metals may cause systemic toxicity.
Effects vary by ink quality and individual sensitivity; research is ongoing.
In short: Stay away from tattoos!
Thank you, Big E. What I "get" from this is maybe some dyes are maybe better than others? But in the long run, none of it is a good choice. This makes sense, anyway, because the body has enough to do to cleanse itself without something permanently in the skin, presumably sloughing off into internal pathways.
Yep. I have four tattos, all after age 30 when I got my first one. Being from a psychological bent, I know that people get tattoos if they feel a lack of identity. But if I knew that before I got them I wouldn't have gotten them and found a better way to have a sense of identity.
That dye bleeds into the bloodstream and lymph nodes. Bad news for those with “Tramp Stamps”
Sounds like the Tattoo topic could be a good essay to write up about
Then I can send it to almost everyone young and Old I know
Seems all ages jumped on this fad.
No thanks!
No jabs, No tats
My favourite: "Madam, did that pterodactyl on your ass start out as a hummingbird?"
OK, but what is the dye made of? I really have no idea about this. Some people really are "blue" all over with the amount of "art" on their bodies. Has anyone done any investigation as to the health effects?
Plastics/azo dye, metals. good stuff like that that you want floating around in your bloodstream
From a poster above: "We asked ChatGPT: What substances are in tattoo ink? What are the possible long-term adverse effects of these substances?
The answers were thorough and shocking (unfortunately, too much to share here and our computer does have SHARE feature enabled).
Here’s a short answer to the same questions using Grok.com
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_9591e3ac-1bbc-4003-9089-cecd8e3cb783
Tattoo ink contains pigments (organic azo dyes, carbon black, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, chromium, nickel, lead, cobalt) and carriers/additives (water, glycerin, propylene glycol, alcohol, sometimes formaldehyde or PAHs).
Long-term adverse effects include allergic reactions, chronic inflammation, granulomas, fibrosis, pigment migration to lymph nodes, potential carcinogenicity (from PAHs, aromatic amines, metals), and rare links to lymphoma or other cancers.
Heavy metals may cause systemic toxicity.
Effects vary by ink quality and individual sensitivity; research is ongoing.
In short: Stay away from tattoos!"
Yes, Dutch Dermatologists released a study - maybe ten years ago? - the dye contains oxides, black and red specifically can contain lead particles that deposit into the lymph. Over time and with sun exposure, it breaks down into the blood stream. Results in autoimmune conditions and cancer. I wonder if all these autoimmune conditions are connected to tattoos.
At least some certainly would be. Any time you inject any foreign substance into the body (whether tattoo ink or vaccine juice), you should expect such things as anaphylaxis, autoimmune conditions, and cancer.
There are lots of "causes" for auto immune diseases but this surely could be one, I suppose. We won't know until someone does some research. I wonder why we haven't heard of such research yet?
Exactly
I hope someone does and real soon
Tattoos look horrible too. I don't like them on men but so many women have them too.
Yes. Don't forget the suncreams too.
You’re so right about sunscreen. A relative is addicted to it and applies a screen regardless of the weather in a futile effort to keep her skin white and smooth in old age.
It seems humans never learn. The fashion nowadays is also to look like death by glp-1 injections. I'm glad I've never been fashionable. 😅
I too thought of Ozempic-face. Seems to be the height of fashion these days, while wasting away muscle mass, strength, health.
Also buccal fat removal.
Wow. I had to look that up as I've never heard the term before. Holy moly!
It is pretty shocking. I think a lot of actresses have now ruined their faces because they did it. Who knows what happens ten years from now after a weird procedure like that?
Fashionable death. . .
Yeah , looking like Frankenstein’s Monster is very sexy!
LOL! No truer words...
Then there is the other side of the coin, the gluttonous era in which being plump was fashionable. Maybe you’ll write about that next.
I'm curious as to who develops and promotes the fashions which everyone is suppose to admire and copy and are there purposes that we are missing. Recall the tight pants craze in the 70s. Could the lead based face paint used by the aristocracy have been intentionally designed to assist in their overthrow or reduce their fertility or assist in their beliefs in and susceptibility to cults and secret societies which they all belonged to?
Good question, who dreams up these great fashionable fads?
WOW! That's one of the best, NEW ideas I've seen in a while.... The lead-based face paint could have been used that way, also, to lessen their fertility rate. Your idea bears thinking about more! THANKS!
Absolutely fascinating article! It does remind one of how utterly stupid we humans often are. Glorifying the path to death and suffering all for the sake of “fashion” and the appearance of wealth and leisure is definitely one of the dumber moments in history.
interesting how many - or most - of the current tech elite also exhibit very pale skin, since they spend most of their time indoors in front of a blue-lit screen and many consider toxic sunscreen an essential to protect against "dangerous" sunlight when they venture outdoors. in fact, in addition to other poisonous compounds sunscreens commonly contain, consumer labs just posted "Lead has been found in nearly 95% of sunscreens tested" (!)
also, makeup was not only toxic in previous times; it is still filled with miscellaneous heavy metals and other unhealthy substances. last time i looked at labels of lipsticks, eye makeup or foundations, nearly all contain quite a list of toxins including even lead, titanium, etc.
Unbekoming, excellent info, thank you. Just a consideration: you maybe should lead with the six year old version. It nailed your point home with a grand slam in four short paragraphs.
Alas, your art is lovingly long but our time is fastly fleeting.
Hmmm....TriTorch.....my view is taking time to ponder thoughts as these is the essences of why he writes and give us time to see how these apply to our current life. Most people want to be "chic" and "fit in" so to speak. When I was in high school - Madras shirts and Keds sneakers with the fashion of the day. And, if you were "chic" you had a Duncan yo-yo.
Yes, but this was for us commoners. The wannabe wealthy were doing something else.
Nope. We ONLY used Whammo yo-yos in my school.....
Hmmmm.....you do mean "Wham-o" yo-yo. And, you must have not lived in a posh neighborhood. Duncan Imperials were for the upcrust - and there weren't many in the hood I grew up in. But, on occasion, someone would have one. Much easier to "sleep" than the Wham-o.
....or was it "Wham-O"?.....btw, does "LSO" mean "landing signal officer", like on a Navy aircraft carrier?.... As for yo-yos, I liked Slinky better!, lol
There was a time there when fashion models looked like heroin addicts. I don't know if that is still going on.
I don’t think it ever ended. Try watching a Victoria’s Secret fashion show or any fashion show out of Europe. Unfortunately I just have to look at my sister. SMH.
The Twiggy phase. Around the late 70's or so. It did receive a lot of criticism, but it really stuck, anyhow, with young women starving themselves to be "tiny & thin."
I look a lot at a person's complexion and it they have any color in their face.
I once found a case of scrofula, cutaneous Mycobacterium avium, on a woman living in the same sort of conditions- a mouldy crowded house on a Canadian Indian Reservation. The observable dietary habits of the tribe included highly processed low quality foods, although I didn't know enough at the time to connect the food choices with the infection.
A highly educational article from beginning to end. I didn't know a thing about how much the rich women poisoned themselves to look sickly or the connection between corset wearing and lung disease.
Somewhat related: In the Poldark series (books and 2 TV series) there is a rich man named George Warleggen (a handsome, cruel, greedy man who pretended he was of upper crust heredity) .
He was married to Elizabeth, who had a true aristocratic background. They live in a magnificent house on an estate.
OK. They have this baby named Valentine. Valentine has symptoms and their trusty regular doctor, name Dr. Choake (pronounced "Choke"), prescribed: keeping the windows closed, the child kept indoors always, the baby's linens to not be changed, the child to be allowed to cry and not picked up, etc. You get the drift. George was absolutely mortified that any child of his would have a disease/condition which he believed only the poor suffered from.
With the above treatment, Valentine was getting worse and worse and his mother decided to consult with a young upstart "progressive" doctor named Dwight Enys even though her husband George (described above) did not approve. Well. Dr. Enys prescribed: opening the windows; plenty of fresh air and sunshine, lots of fresh milk and so on and so forth - everything a growing baby needs.
Yes, Valentine got cured. Thought you might find this story interesting for those of you who have never seen Poldark on television or read the books.
P.S. The condition Valentine had was called "rickets" in those days.
I didn't read this whole article but I think I got the gist. The more I'm on this planet the more programs I see that I see my mom and dad just swallowed. And then passed on down to me. And related to this article my mom used to say, after I would complain about her tugging on my snarls as she brushed my hair, "You have to suffer to be beautiful". I remember thinking, but not saying out loud to this authority in my life, "Well then why bother?"
So often heard, “That’s what’s in style.” — “That’s not — MY — style,” I reply. I care not what ‘everyone else is doing’… classically unique, timeless individuality becomes me; as it so does us all. Marching through life in lockstep, removes our uniqueness, in Christ, and who we are to become.
Our uniqueness is ours alone. In that, there are times when ‘disarray pays a visit’… expressing such, often heard is encouragement through the disparagement of others. “Never should that even be considered,” I reply. “It pays no mind, to the judgment of others.” “It’s not egoism, in the least. It’s my ‘day of disarray,’ off-centered, unsettled… we all have them.”
This too, shall pass, moving through it, settling into the teachings of what’s befallen us in this day… Uncomfortable as it may be — tomorrow brings resilience to — the ‘visit.’
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the thing which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — 2nd Corinthians 4:17-18
May God’s Wisdom be upon us all — in all that we are meant to be… not misled by the lies. For “as He is, so am I” — 1 John 4:17 — There is no other — ‘Perfect Love,’ therein… lies our perfection.
Godspeed ✞🕊
Integrated thinking as always. Thank you for the insights. "Clicks" in my mind immediately as true.
Identity. What if we all saw ourselves as made in the image of our creator, and made in great care, with our very own DNA? Would we stoop to such lows???
Corsets are back in a BIG way with the 20something crowd. We can thank Kim Kardashian for that. All the girls with naturally wide hips and large rear ends are aiming to get unnaturally small waists. They don't realize Kim's look is largely AI and surgically enhanced.
More importantly... They do not realize the health repercussions that await them. Just as our youth have been misled into believing they can choose to be male or female — the sheer ignorance of Kim Kardashian is leading them into physical alterations that will, indeed, affect the future of their health & wellness… With all the many lies surrounding humanity, begs the question — Was this INTENTIONAL? The depopulation agenda is clearly upon us. The extremely negative health effects on pregnancy, exerting excessive pressure on the abdomen, compressing internal organs, restricting blood flow, diminishing breathing capabilities, digestive complications — all risking severe internal injuries to the mother and child… what could possibly go wrong?
Some get ribs removed.
I wonder what could damage the top of the lungs of so many people. Could it be super heated air from smoking something. Then it progresses?