This allows your body to break down as much of the tattoo as it can while also giving your body the opportunity to heal completely before your next session.'Īs of writing this, I've had six sessions, and I'd wager that I need about five more, despite the fact that my initial estimate was six to eight sessions. “Laser treatments should be scheduled three months apart from one another so you get the most out of each treatment.

(I wish!) “A complete tattoo removal takes a minimum of two and a half years on average,” says Bethany Cirlin, tattoo removal specialist and owner of Clean Canvas More Art. Tattoos don't just disappear after a once-over with the laser. It will take months-if not a year or more. I suggest you find your own removal expert by asking friends or influencers, or even stopping people that you see with removal in process-which, yes, I have done. Adams, MD, at the New York Dermatology Group, where everything is done under medical supervision. This time around, I got my treatments done by John F. I previously had one tattoo zapped at a spa (I was living in small-town Canada where there weren't plastic surgery offices or dermatologists), where an aesthetician used an outdated heat laser that ended up burning and scarring my skin. Consider a doctor or a tattoo removal specialist.

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