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The Amazing Science Behind Tattoos and Tattoo Removal

Have you ever given much thought as to what makes a tattoo permanent? I really hadn’t thought about it before in great detail until I saw the cool TedTalk video below. Basically, when a tattoo artist delivers a series of little pinpricks they are embedding permanent ink deep into your skin. Once the ink is in there, under the dermis, it is deep enough to stay permanently. That seems to makes sense. But what I didn’t realize is that on [...]

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Want Tattoo Removal Success? Do this.

Our Indianapolis customers often tell us that one of the most surprising details they learn about tattoo removal is that the lasers themselves don’t actually remove the tattoos. Surprisingly, it’s our own immune system that does most of the work and there are ways to boost your tattoo removal success. It all begins when the tattoo ink absorbs the intensely focused light energy from the laser. The ink particles heat up and expand, eventually shattering into much smaller particles. At [...]

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How Tattoo Removal Works

Every tattoo is like a snowflake or a fingerprint- unique.The day you had your tattoo applied it represented a trend, memory, point of view or a spontaneous decision. At that moment it felt right, but today? Today you are pondering what it would take to undo part of that past. All that time ago, you felt the tattoo you were paying $100 or more for was an investment for a lifetime, but now you wonder what it would take to have it [...]

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How Laser Tattoo Removal Works [INFOGRAPHIC]

How Are Tattoos Removed? Every laser tattoo removal is like a snowflake or a fingerprint- unique. The science behind laser tattoo removal is fascinating. In a previous blog, we highlighted how ink settles in the skin and how the different wavelengths are used to remove those colors with laser technology. The size of ink particles is an important factor when using lasers to remove color tattoos. Tattoo removal is a craft. Every tattoo, every client and every laser is unique. When you [...]

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