Sometimes the easiest solution isn’t the best solution.
Sometimes an artist will black out an unwanted tattoo with a very heavy, solid black coverup, because their coverup options are limited by what’s already inked on your skin. At the moment, you didn’t care. You just wanted whatever it was gone. But as time passes, you become less enamored of that black coverup blob, internally debating if, in fact, it’s better or worse than if you’d left the original tattoo there. Darkening or blacking out an old tattoo may be the quickest and easiest way to hide it, but in the long run you’ve severely limited your options once you tire of that quick fix.
Additionally, the human eye is very good at recognizing patterns. A trained tattoo artist knows what to look for and can often see the original tattoo beneath a coverup, not even looking hard to spot it. Over time, very faint lines underneath the black tattoo will show through and be easy to see. Now you not only have a black blob, you have your original, unwanted tattoo showing up again.
Perhaps laser is the solution? Not likely. A tattoo like this is likely to ghost heavily. What laser removal locations don’t tell you is that laser is color -centric. In other words, one color per wavelength. If the laser location doesn’t have the wavelength for your color, it won’t clear. No matter how many times they go over it.
Assuming the black ink isn’t blue-based and thus does clear fairly well, at best the underlying colors will be revealed. At worst, depending on what’s in the pigment of your tattoo ink, they’ll behave unpredictably, leaving you worse than when you simply wanted to coverup your unwanted tattoo.
To the average person, getting rid of a tattoo is easy. In reality, it’s far more complex. What you have determines your coverup. While you believe it’s merely a matter of putting one design over another, any artist will tell you there are multiple factors they take into account to execute a coverup. And the worse the tattoo, the fewer options you have.
If you didn’t think when you got your ink, don’t repeat the same mistake for your coverup. A better option is to remove – not lighten with laser – the old tattoo, in whole or in part, depending on if you want empty skin or a clear, clean new design with no limitations.
Tatt2Away® is a non-laser, all-natural tattoo removal system that’s not color centric, and so unlike laser, it’s effective on all ink colors and pigments. Also unlike laser, Tatt2Away fully removes the ink from the body rather than leaving it lingering in the lymph nodes and liver. Not only that, it takes fewer treatments than laser. Where laser, for a four by three inch tattoo, requires multiple treatments for each color in the tattoo, Tatt2Away needs only two or three treatments for selective removal, and no more than five for complete removal.
If your tattoo is from a home party or a second-rate shop, chances are there are toxins in your ink. Whether the laser causes an external problem in the removal or not, those toxins linger in your body, an issue laser removal centers tend to gloss over.
What would you prefer? Laser removal: non-regulated pigment ink remains in your body for an indefinite period of time, ten to fifteen or more treatments, $500 to $3,000 or more, orTatt2Away: full removal of the ink in two to five treatments, and therefore substantially less cost?
Find the Tatt2Away Center nearest you and schedule your consultation now. More centers coming on board every month.
Tatt2Away is a specific patented method for non-laser, all-natural tattoo removal. The patent and registered trademark cover unique elements – including the template – that contribute to its success. If you visit a location claiming to be a certified Tatt2Away center and they fail to use the template in your procedure, leave (and please let us know).