Geri Halliwell turned heads at the beach in St. Tropez last weekend, but the singer’s front was a bit more pleasant to look at than her back. Geri’s tiny white bikini revealed a missing panther tattoo, replaced with an ugly scar from laser surgery.
Geri got the tattoo on her lower back in 1998, but underwent laser treatment since 2004 to have the black cat removed from her body.
“From the front Geri looked absolutely incredible,” said a beach onlooker.
“She has clearly been working out exceedingly hard over the past few months and the results are really beginning to show through. She has acquired a very impressive six-pack stomach and amazingly toned legs.
“But when Geri turned around, all illusions of poise and elegance were thrown out the window with a really ugly scar which was obviously from a previous tattoo.
“Not only was the scar still quite red and painful-looking but, from a distance, it looked as though it was going mouldy. On closer inspection though, this was merely the last traces of the dark tattoo ink.
“Either way, it really didn’t do much for her otherwise toned and tanned physique.”
Ok SG tattoo enthusiast: break it down for us. I understand the scarring from laser surgery, but what’s up with the scar that looks like an insicion?
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August 7th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Good! That’s what she gets for picking lame ink.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:07 am
That actually looks like an incision scar to me, with removal scar surrounding it. I wonder if she had a surgery that cut through the tattoo and then she had the rest removed? I know someone who did that.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:51 am
It looks like she had some of the tattoo removed via scalpel and then the remaining parts that jutted out are being treated by laser removal.Sadly, this is common. People want instant results. Being her tattoo was dark pigmented, it would have all come out at the same time so there was really no need to get it cut out and then laser removed. She probably has about 5 sessions left on that thing too.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:12 am
[quote comment="117273"]That actually looks like an incision scar to me, with removal scar surrounding it. I wonder if she had a surgery that cut through the tattoo and then she had the rest removed? I know someone who did that.[/quote]
i have to agree with you fo sho.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:52 am
but she still looks hella great in that bikini.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:52 am
my assumption is that she got the tattoo to cover the incision scar.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
[quote comment="117292"]my assumption is that she got the tattoo to cover the incision scar.[/quote]
I wondered about that too, but I saw some close-ups of the tattoo before she started the removal process, and it doesn’t look like there’s a scar.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I say go with what CynicismDirect said. That girl knows her stuff!
August 8th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Yep, I agree with CynicismDirect. I am a nurse, and worked for a laser place (hair and tattoo removal) and we saw people who just couldn’t get their tats off to their liking who went to the plastic surgeon to get the excess skin removed. The scar looks like its recent, though, which is prolly why its so red. Maybe in time for the tour? Actually, Darth Paul, if she HAD used cheap ink, like in a jail tat, say, it would come out quicker and more effectively, because the particles in that ink are bigger and the laser can target them easier. All that aside, I liked the description that it looked like it was “going mouldy”.