Tattoo Removal and Your Options
Tattoos are one of the permanent things you can do to your body that actually aren’t exactly permanent. There are a variety of methods widely available today for getting a tattoo off your skin. Let’s address a few of the more talked about techniques for tattoo removal and the relevant information for each technique.
1. Tattoo Removal Creams and Kits.
Tattoo removal creams are an over the counter product designed as a “do it yourself” solution for tattoo removal, which can be done in the privacy of your own home. These removal creams are often a “kit” with two or more creams which are applied topically to the skin (this means just to the surface of the skin) and over time, will expel or break down the ink in the skin, leaving either a faded together or leaving no tattoo at all. This method is suggested for older tattoos or tattoos which were done with low quality equipment and inks. High quality tattoo work will require repeated applications which could make this solution prohibitively costly as compared to other solutions below. Note that there is no pain or risk of scarring using tattoo removal creams.
2. Rejuvi Cream.
Similar in name only to the “creams” out there, rejuvi cream is an advanced technique for getting the tattoo off your flesh. Patients are treated by a trained medical professional who will use a device to push rejuvi cream into the tattoo of the patient. It then bonds with the ink. The body will see the bonded ink and rejuvi cream as a foreign entity and push it out of the body in the form of a scab. Over repeated treatments, this leaves the skin entirely tattoo free.
3. Laser Techniques.
Laser tattoo removal is one of the most well known and efficient techniques for tattoo removal. This solution requires going in for multiple treatments from a professional clinic. Over repeated treatments, a tattoo can be entirely removed from the skin. There is minimal to no risk of scarring from this technique. Most people do find the laser removal process painful, but no more painful than getting the tattoo originally.
One final note is the use of cover up tattoos. If you have a tattoo you no longer want, consider that instead of paying for its removal, you can pay to have it covered up with a better tattoo. The techniques for covering up is likely better than you imagine these days, so talk to an artist to get their thoughts before making a decision either way.