Tattoo Removal and Your Options
Everyone always used to say that be careful what you get as a tattoo, because it’s going to be permanent. While the moral of this maxim is true, it’s no longer true that tattoo’s are permanent. In fact, there are a variety of methods for their removal from the skin. Let’s look at a few of the most talked about techniques available today.
1. Tattoo Removal Creams.
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 Removal.
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 Removal.
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.
Finally, the last “removal option” doesn’t involve getting anything removed at all. If you are going to spend a lot of money to remove a tattoo, consider the alternative of simply getting a tattoo you do want in its place; a tattoo cover up instead of a tattoo removed!
