Sam

The Decision

Not every unwanted tattoo needs to disappear completely. If your plan is to cover it with new work rather than…

Choosing a Provider

Of all the decisions in tattoo removal, this is the one that matters most, and it’s the one clinics are…

Pain, Risks & Safety

If you have darker skin and are researching tattoo removal, you’ve probably run into two unhelpful extremes: pages that make…

Aftercare

The session itself is over quickly, often just a few minutes under the laser. What happens next, across the hours…

The Process

A removal session itself is quick, often just a few minutes under the laser. What comes after is where most…

The Decision

If you’d asked a few years ago who actually gets tattoos removed, you’d have gotten a lot of assumptions and…

The Science

One of the first things that surprises people about tattoo removal is how much the color matters. A solid black…

What Affects Results

Ask anyone who works in removal what people want to know first, and it’s always the same question: how many…

The Decision

It’s easy to assume tattoo removal is mostly about vanity, the thing you do because you no longer like how…

Pain, Risks & Safety

Of the things that can go differently than hoped during laser tattoo removal, changes in skin color are among the…

Costs

Most of the confusion about tattoo removal comes down to time and money: how many visits, over how long, and…

Tattoo Removal 101

Tattoo removal sounds simple: point a laser at the ink and it disappears. What actually happens is slower and stranger…

The Decision

Behind most people walking into a tattoo removal consultation is a story. Sometimes a relationship ended. Sometimes a career calls…

Pain, Risks & Safety

Two worries stop more people from looking into tattoo removal than any others: that it will be unbearably painful, and…

Pain, Risks & Safety

People who tend to form keloids, the raised, thickened scars that grow beyond the edge of the original injury, face…