Tattoo Removal Options

Video Transcript

"Have two removal options. There are several ways to remove a tattoo the most preferred method is with a laser. It is a quite painful procedure, people describe it as kind of feeling like hot bacon grease being dripped on your skin. It goes very quickly, normally has to be done on several sessions, depending on how dark the tattoo is. Other methods people have used in the past have been derm-abrasion where you actually just kind of scrub the tattoo off, adding salt or whatever hydrogen peroxide people come up with all kinds of ways to try to get that ink to break up under the skin. It is very painful leaves a very bad scar, the laser treatment is very little scarring but it is also quite expensive. There has been cases, I saw a guy years ago when I was very new in this business take acid on a toothpick and outline a tattoo that had been done on his arm of a heart with his girlfriend's name and he just took the toothpick went around it and then just took a razor blade and scraped the whole thing right off of his arm, left a great big hole in his forearm and a a nasty wound. But if you have no other option if you cannot get away with covering it up, changing it in some way to make it more desirable, if you have to get it removed then I would certainly suggest taking the laser route. Here is a tattoo that was done a long time ago that did not heal well, and it will be a very good candidate for removal, the laser treatment on something like this would take about ten seconds and probably run between fifty and a hundred bucks depending on where you go. But this would this would be a very quick fix and not overly expensive. Scarring on something like this would be very minimal would probably take two to three times to get it completely back to where it looked like the rest of her skin."