How to Remove Tattoos from Your Body

Tattoos are meant to be permanent body arts. Therefore when you set out to adorn your body with a tattoo you must be both physically and psychologically prepared to have it for the rest of your life. Be that as it may, it is not

impossible for you to get a point where you begin to feel that a tattoo you have been carrying for an extensive period no longer suits your persona. When that happens be rest assured that there are variety of ways to remove tattoos from the body but some are more effective than others. It suffices to also say that most of the tattoo removal options are not risk free.

First thing you need to know is that the ink used in making tattoos is specially designed to be permanent. This makes it almost impossible to remove every single trace of it to give your skin that flawless feel and appearance that it had prior to your having the tattoo.

The second thing you need to know is that tattoo removal is very expensive and the process can take weeks and months to complete. You are strongly advised for health reasons not to attempt to remove your tattoos by yourself or visit a tattoo parlour to remove your tattoo. 

The right thing to do is to visit a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon to seek professional advice before deciding on the safest and most effective way of tattoo removal.

Please find here below the different ways of removing tattoos from your body.

1. TATTOO LASER REMOVAL 

The deployment of lasers have been identified and proven to be most effective way of tattoo removal. This is a process that involves the targeting and breaking down of the ink. This use of laser is done severally in different treatment sessions spanning several months. There are different types of lasers and some work better with certain kinds of ink colours.

In the laser treatment procedure, the laser is pointed at the tattoo and bursts of light energy are sent into the skin. Each session lasts for a few minutes and the body’s immune system is left to eradicate or expel the ink or pigment that has been treated with the laser. 

The duration of time you have been carrying the tattoo, it’s size and the kind of ink used determines the level of success that can be achieved with the laser removal procedure. The risks and disadvantages of using laser include scars, change of skin pigmentation and residues of the ink remaining on the body.

2. SURGERY

Tattoos that do not get remedied through laser removal may have to be removed via surgery. Surgical removal of tattoos involve the process of cutting out the tattoos from the skin. Just like most other surgical procedures tattoo removal also comes with bleeding, scars, and possible infection. In most cases the scars are known to fade off with time if the surgery is done neatly. 

Dermatologists and skin surgeons have advised against the use of dermabrasion in tattoo removal because it is not very effective in getting rid of ink from the skin. 

Dermabrasion is more affective for handling skin resurfacing to get rid of wrinkles and acne scars.

There are a lot of claims from practitioners of herbal medicine and makers of body creams to the effect that their products can remove tattoos.

But much of such claims are largely non-proven and unreliable. People who want to attempt tattoo removal must therefore go through the right channel by working with qualified medical personnel. Tattoo removal is not something to be joked with or treated with levity.