Saturday 7 June 2014

The Tattoo Problem

From the Daily Mail

But after 18 years of wedded unity, Melanie Griffith has filed for divorce from 53-year-old Antonio Banderas, according to a Friday report from TMZ.



If I knew how to invest in it, I'd be buying shares in the tattoo removal industry.A decade from now, all those people with celtic knots and barbed wire are going to want them removing.

4 comments:

Macheath said...

Bloomberg are way ahead of you:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-01/no-pain-no-gain-as-tattoo-regret-fueling-laser-removals.html

According to one expert, it's “a brilliant business model because it creates its own demand".

Rich Tee said...

That Blooberg article is an eye-opener. $150 for a tattoo, and then 10 operations costing $1,850 to get rid of it.

Maybe this sentence offers an investment opportunity: "Revenue from sales of aesthetic equipment by publicly traded companies expanded 20 percent annually from 2009 to 2012"

I have units in a healthcare tracker fund...

Bayard said...

Is it just my eyesight, or does that tattoo look like it says “Antonia”?

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, it is not a very well designed letter "o".

If you look at a close up, you could read it as "Antania".