 How do
you Remove a Tattoo?
So you coughed up your hard earned cash,
bit the bullet and got yourself a tattoo. Problem is, a
month later you start thinking that it actually isn’t your
bag. Perhaps you thought that your girlfriend was “the one”
and had her pet name aptly scratched onto your back, only to
find you misjudged her and now need to remove SNUFFLES in
capitals from your spine. This is more common than you would
think and tattoo removal appears to be a growing industry
with more and more methods and products becoming available
to you. But how do you remove a tattoo ?
We will discuss a few methods of tattoo
removal in this article starting with perhaps the most
popular method in laser surgery but first let’s examine
exactly why it’s so dam hard to remove a tattoo. When you
get a tattoo, they inject the ink into a very low layer of
the skin known as the dermis and in effect, the tattoo
becomes almost buried making it extremely difficult for
removal.
With laser treatment, the tattoo will be
removed by heating the pigments of ink up enough for them to
break down and be removed naturally by the body. The fact
that the process involves heating the tattoo up (which is
located in the dermis) obviously means that this treatment
is no picnic. In fact, there`s no point beating about the
bush, it will hurt and depending on your own pain threshold
it may hurt a lot (also may depend on the quality and size
of the tattoo). Well what do you expect? It`s a blummin
laser for hells sake!
The laser tattoo removal treatment is not
guaranteed to work but there is a high success rate. It
doesn’t work all the time because not all tattoos are the
same, they are all made of different inks and people also
react differently to the treatment.
It is highly unlikely you will be in
and out in one session either, again depending on the tattoo
you may be required to return up to 15 times for it to
completely disappear. Another thing to bear in mind is that
with most lasers, there is a risk of scarring in the region
of the tattoo, again, this is probably due to the fact that
they are burning through your skin, so this is to be
expected. That said, scarring in most cases does not occur
it simply depends on the laser being used, the type of
tattoo and the individual. There is much discussion around
the health risks of laser tattoo removal as some believe
that it can contribute to skin cancer and other skin
disorders. Some direct their concerns to the dangers of the
actual laser itself, claiming that it could do permanent
retinal damage if used incorrectly. Let`s face it, if you
use a blow torch incorrectly that could do some permanent
retinal damage too, as long as Frank Spencers not removing
your tattoo I think the laser is pretty
safe.
How do you remove a tattoo ? well, you
have it burnt off by a laser! Good luck, as you now know,
its not as bad as it sounds.
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