[Closed] Tattoo removal

shibboleth from this forum does them on the cheap i understand.

My wife is getting her arse antlers lasered off. Says it's the most painful thing she's ever experienced and way worse than the actual tattoo. She's had about half a dozen sessions and it's faded a lot. I reckon another half a dozen to go unless the fading increases over time.

No experience myself but the general opinion is to go to a proper tattoo studio that does laser rather than a 'clinic'. Black is the easiest followed by red IIRC. Where are you based?

mrsalias had one removed years ago

very very painful, no really, very very very painful

think she had 6-8sessions which removed ninetysomething percent of the black, the red remains probably 50% faded

she was very happy with the results

I've had several tattoo's lasered a couple of times so they could be recovered.
it really is quite painful.
get friendly with the tattooist, i was having 4-5 medium sized tattoo's lasered at the same time for £20 a session.
emla cream is your friend!

My tattoo is black outline with a splash of red, was told that they're easier colours to remove. I'm between Reading & Basingstoke, went to a local clinic for a first consultation, but had wondered about a tattooist.

This...

Looks like a tattoo shop in Basingstoke do removal, so I'll go down there to see what they have to say, looks a little cheaper also.

my god it is painful, 1000 times worse than the actual tattoo. It doesn't last long though. amazingly effective but it does tend to remove some of the melanin in my experience (I've got quite olive skin) so you end up with a bit of a pale shadow where the tatt used to be.

also, I was told that red is the colour they can't remove, since it's a red laser they use. might be bollocks though.

I've not had it done, but a friend has, and based on cost, pain and results, she felt it would have been easier to carve it off with a bread knife, leaving a huge scar to brag about, and the opportunity to concoct a story about bears and falling out of a helicopter whilst wrestling.

HTH.

I thought tattoos were for life. Like forever.

I've made a shit load of mistakes in my life, I'm pretty glad getting a tattoo wasn't one of them 🙂

My dad has a pretty significant scar on his forearm, from a tattoo removal. All I've ever been told is that the tattoo was done when he was young and immensely drunk, and was removed a couple of days later by slicing off a significant amount of flesh 😯

I know he's not pulling my leg, as I've seen a photo of him with the tattoo, located where there is now the scar.