Twenty-eight-year-old office worker Lim recently had an eye-line tattoo. “I would rather call it semi-permanent make up. It’s nothing too scary just injecting brown pigment along the eye-line. You don’t even notice it’s a tattoo,” she said.
“Since the treatment, I do not have to spend extra time putting on eye liner in the morning and still people think I look great,” she explained as to why she underwent the procedure.
However, Lim admitted that she was lucky. She has seen some people with results that weren’t as successful. “I have seen some get swelling around the eyes or the pigment leaving green marks making their face look odd,” she said.
Tattoos are not only for those inking illustrations on their bodies to portray a certain image, or part of a religious or ceremonial rite as in some countries. Tattoos are gaining popularity among women here as a way of adding permanent makeup.
Being tattooed by a tattoo artist is illegal here as it is considered to be a semi-medical treatment and therefore restricted to doctors only. Since the pigment is injected into the skin, it could cause an infection if contaminated needles are used, the procedure is strictly limited to those in the medical profession, however, doctors seldom do so.
Still, people manage to get tattoos from tattoo artists, makeup artists and face masseuses, who illegally perform the procedure.
The Green Consumers Network’s (GCN) national council warned Thursday that more consumers were reporting side effects from undergoing the procedure from unauthorized practitioners. According to its research, among 88 cases of negative reactions to semi-medical treatment between January and September this year, 58 percent were from “beauty tattoos.”
According to the report, women suffering side effects said they could not open their eyes because they were sore from having had eye-line tattoos several times; some suffered from deteriorating eyesight, while others had swollen eyelids due to eyebrow tattooing. Also women experienced inflammation of the lips after applying an ointment to complete a lip line tattoo.
The group said the “victims” of such semi-medical treatment should be aware that the procedures they were undergoing were illegal.
According to a survey of 814 people between 10 and 60, 349 had tattoos, and 27 percent underwent the procedure more than twice, however, they were ignorant of its legal implications.
Some 71 percent, mostly teenagers, were not aware that the treatment was illegal. While 151 said tattooing was safe, 34 out of the 349 said they experienced negative side effects ranging from pain and scarring, and others that needed professional medical treatment.
The GCN council held a debate Thursday to talk about the safety and future direction of tattooing here.
Prof. Cho Hyong-won of Sangji University said the government needs to expand the qualification spectrum for those allowed to perform tattooing, but must put in tighter regulation and management. “There are no proper education courses for the so-called tattoo artists or beauticians who are actually performing the tattooing. The government needs to set up guidelines to regulate them,” he said.
Hann Seung-kyung, spokesman for the Korean Medical Association, said it was mostly teenagers affected by the tattoo boom, citing a medical report released in 1989, and called for a campaign to inform people of the risks involved.
Artilce from www.koreatimes.co.kr
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