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What you need to know about your tattoo, your body and your tattoo removal.

How Does Tattoo Ink Stay “Permanent”? Ever thought how does tattoo ink stay in your skin so permanently? For the record, humans shed around 1,000,000 skin cells every day, so it’s pretty difficult for anything to stay on the surface of the skin – anything drawn onto it would gradually flake or get washed off. When getting a tattoo, the ink is inserted into a deeper skin layer, called dermis, that doesn’t flake off – and to reach it, tattoo [...]

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The Kirby-Desai Scale: How Laser Techs Measure Tattoo Removal Success

Laser tattoo removal is a pretty straightforward process, but the experience of each individual tattoo being treated can differ greatly. Removing a tattoo takes time. It needs repeated treatments, spaced out at 8-week intervals to allow the body’s lymphatic system to properly expel the ink particles. Many of the most common questions we are asked boil down to a central theme: how many laser tattoo removal sessions are needed for full removal? That is why the Kirby-Desai Scale was [...]

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How Skin Tone Affects Laser Tattoo Removal

In the same way that every tattoo is unique to the individual, so too is removal of that tattoo. A number of factors can influence the removal process and properly assessing them all is critical to a positive experience. The tattoo removal process begins with a complimentary consultation where we assess the size and location of your tattoo, skin tone, as well as the color and depth of the ink. We will then determine the number of treatments needed [...]

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