{"id":47326,"date":"2017-07-19T01:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=47326"},"modified":"2017-07-19T01:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T01:55:54","slug":"mark-croppdevast8-teen-starts-gruelling-laser-sessions-remove-face-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=47326","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cropp,’DEVAST8′ teen starts gruelling laser sessions to remove face tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ex-prisoner who was laughed out of job interviews as a result of a face tattoo he received in prison has gone under the gun again – this time to remove it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month Mark Cropp made a desperate plea for work after he and his partner lost custody of their two-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

After being inundated with job offers, the 19-year-old has now taken the next step in his return to normality, seeing a tattoo removalist who is removing the “DEVAST8” tattoo sprawled across his jawline.<\/p>\n

With one laser session down and eleven more to go, the teenager’s makeshift prison tat is proving rather tricky to remove.<\/p>\n

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After much deliberation, Mark Cropp has gone under the laser gun to remove his infamous ‘DEVAST8’ tattoo. Source: Caters<\/span><\/p>\n

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It will take 12 long sessions to remove the teenager’s prison inking. Source: Caters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The main concern is that the ink he’s used is not your regular ink. It’s something they’ve made in prison by melting down plastic utensils,”\u009d Sacred Laser co-owner Briar Neville told the NZ Herald.<\/p>\n

“This would be the biggest [tattoo] on the face that I’ve come across.”<\/p>\n

Cropp’s brother and other inmates fashioned the tattoo gun from a pen spring attached to a cassette player before getting “carried away”.<\/p>\n

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Cropp said he had reservations about removing his infamous face tattoo. Source: Caters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cropp said the tattoo, designed to make him look “tough”, was only meant to be a small piece along the jawline.<\/p>\n

“I went to jail with four tattoos and came out with a full body suit,” Cropp added.<\/p>\n

“A week before I got out I taped a picture of my face to the inside of an envelope so my partner could see it – she was devastated – but now she likes it and can’t see me without it.”<\/p>\n

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Cropp said he had previously been laughed out of job interviews as a result of his prison ink. Source: Facebook<\/span><\/p>\n

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