TATTOOS may be the skin art of choice for many young women now, but there is definitely a down side.

Actress Angelina Jolie demonstrated this, in London this week. The original tattoo high on her left arm originally proclaimed her love for husband Billy Bob Thornton.

Bear in mind this was during the phase when they wore matching phials of each other's blood, like you do.

He left her, and their adopted child, and is now with someone else. She appears to have had his name taken off her arm and the scar covered with make-up.

As many a sailor already knows well, public declarations of love like this look wonderful -- until you change partners. Then they, and all they involve, need to be swiftly and publicly erased.