| Now, let's see what are newest pain free | | | | lighten the tattoo, but unlike the other methods |
| methods for tattoo removal nowadays. | | | | the creams have no risk of damaging the skin. |
| Laser surgery is the most common method of | | | | Saline tattooing is method of "tattooing" (not |
| tattoo removal widely used today. It works by | | | | injecting) saline solution over your unwanted |
| targeting the tattooed area with pulses of highly | | | | tattoo to fade it. Saline tattooing works best with |
| concentrated laser light that causes the tattoo | | | | older tattoos and generally just causes fading (if |
| pigment to fragment into smaller particles which | | | | anything), and is not a reliable method for tattoo |
| are then removed by your immune system. But | | | | removal. Fortunately, the procedure is harmless |
| this method in some cases can damage your skin | | | | and relatively inexpensive. Although it may be |
| in form of blisters, scabs, and light scars, | | | | hard to find a tattoo artist willing to do this for |
| depending on number of treatments you have. | | | | you, it is a good way to make covering up a |
| Pulsed light therapy is less damaging to the skin, | | | | tattoo easier. |
| less painful than a laser treatment, and also more | | | | Cover-up tattoo is much less painful and less |
| effective. It works similarly to the laser treatment | | | | expensive way, than any of the removal options |
| in a form of gel that is rubbed over the tattoo | | | | and won't take months of your time. A cover-up |
| and then pulsed with light over the skin that is | | | | method is simply having an old tattoo covered up |
| being treated. However this is the most | | | | with a new tattoo. Some tattoo artists even |
| expensive method of removing tattoos. | | | | specialize in cover-ups. You are limited, however, |
| Tattoo removal creams are the most painless | | | | in what you can do with a cover-up tattoo. You |
| method available today. These creams are applied | | | | can only cover dark inks with dark inks, and any |
| to the outer layer of skin and tattooed area, and | | | | part of your skin already tattooed will still be |
| over time fade an unwanted tattoo until it's | | | | tattooed. Also, cover-up tattoos can really only be |
| completely gone. Some of these creams really | | | | done once. |
| work, and sometimes they may just help fade or | | | | |