This doesn’t even qualify as a decent DIY but at least there was someone who sacrificed their skin to laser radiation just to get this thing documented at instructables.
But yes, DO NOT use lasers to make tatoos. This is a no-no unless you want to die of cancer real soon. Use your common sense, this probably was just (a horrible attempt) to bring more web traffic to instructables.

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