….what i mean is, the fade creams that you can buy over the counter, what is the difference between the specific "tattoo removal creams" and an over the counter fade cream.

I’m going to makeup school in the summer. Which do you think is a better value
Makeup I it’s 150 hours this is that it’s about
*Skin analysis and it’s characteristics
*Makeup removal techniques
*Study of different facial morphologies
*Definition of Psychofigursim
* Study of the ideal facial model
*Eyebrows 101
*Colour theory
*colour harmonies
*corrective eyes, nose, lips and contour techniques
*bridal makeup
*makeup for mature women
*day and evening makeup
*gala makeup with false lashes
*makeup for oriental woman
*makeup for woman of all skin colours

Includes:
*Uniform and pin
*products used at school (skin care and makeup)
*Personal work kit including the brushes
*manual

This is 1750$

Makeup II:
*Professional products and accessories
*Special techniques for television
*In depth makeup techniques
*glamour makeup with individual fake lashes
*cinema makeup with cream shadows
*photography makeup with cream shadows
*photography makeup
*theaterical makeup with full false eyelashes
*transforming a woman into a man
*rejuvenation
*progressive ageing
*artists makeup with pancake, aquacolor and glitters
*temp. tattoos

Included: complementary kit to basic work kit
*skin care and makeup

this is 1850$

Makeup III:
*Black eye creation
*bruises with wax
*scars, cuts, oedema and scratches
*burns in three steps

Products included: same as number 2

this one one 1850$

If you do all three it’s 4350$, and if payed in full 4100$

I’m interested in 1, and maybe 2, not too much 3, but it sounds cool.

What do you think?

This day and age, more and more people are deciding to get permanent tattoos, leaving their mark of choice on their skin. If the tattoo is applied by an experienced artist, the risk involved will be minimal. As sad as it is however, many people who get tattoos end up going to studios that use unsanitary equipment – resulting in infections or other serious problems.

Years ago, temporary tattoos were found in quarter machines, bubble gum wrappers, and even toy sections of the local store. Children loved to get these temporary tattoos, as they presented a way for children to have a tattoo – one that was completely safe and would wash off. Now days, even adults are beginning to think that this is the right idea. The temporary tattoos of today are no longer just for children, as most last a long time – making them perfect for adults.

The best thing about temporary tattoos, is the fact that they are indeed temporary. With temporary tattoos, you dont have to worry about infections or unsanitary equipment, as there is no piercing of the skin involved. Temporary tattoos are safe, and remove easily with soap and water. This is very cost friendly as well – as permanent tattoos require surgery to remove.

If you have been thinking about getting a permanent tattoo, you should first give a temporary tattoo a try. Tattoos that are temporary provide an excellent way to test out designs, and see if a tattoo is right for you. If you dont like it, all you have to do is wash it off. Then, you can purchase another one and see if you like it better. There are literally thousands of temporary tattoos out there, with designs that are sure to please everyone.

If you decide to get a permanent tattoo instead, you are pretty much stuck with it. To get rid of a permanent tattoo, youll need to have it surgically removed, which can cost you thousands of dollars. Youll also face the risk of infection, along with a permanent scar. Permanent tattoos are great though – providing you are happy with the tattoo.

In most cases, temporary tattoos look just like a permanent tattoo. To use them, simply lick the tattoo or use water and apply to your skin. When you have it where you want it, simply apply pressure for a few seconds. They are easy to apply, and last until you wash them off. If you decide to get a longer lasting temporary tattoo, it will last for a longer period of time. This way, you can decide if a permanent tattoo is going to be worth the investment.

You can find temporary tattoos in local stores or on the Internet. They are very affordable as well, even cheaper if you buy them in bulk. Tattoo artists also sell them, and normally have a large selection on hand. This way, you can look through the available selections and find the tattoo that best fits your style.

All in all, temporary tattoos are easier to apply than permanent tattoos and they pose no risk to your skin or your health. Those that are afraid of needles tend to like them as well, as they give you the chance to have a tattoo without going under the needle. Before you rush out and get a tattoo, you should instead give permanent tattoos a try. They wont cost you a lot of money – yet they will give you the chance to see how you look with a tattoo – and decide if a permanent tattoo is really something you want.

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I need a good make up/concealer for covering dark / light spots on the body. I’m not after permanent changes (like whitening creams), I need something that works _right now_ not in 5 months. The kind of stuff they probably use in movies to make people look beautiful even if they have scars/tattoos.

Many Pinay have spots on their legs, rear and back. It’s that kind of spot removal I’m after, regardless of whether the skin is tan or white.

It has to be GOOD make up. Not something that ends up looking like a spot covered by a smear of cream.

I’ve tried HBC and checked out the brands there, and I’ve been to the stores in SM, but unless I’m blind and the salespeople ignorant, they don’t have good make up to cover dark/light spots on the body. All they have is whitening cream, or weak make up with no good coverage. (the smear of cream look)

I am in northern Cavite by Imus, but I’m willing to go almost anywhere to get this stuff!

474 Things To Do When You’re Bored
- Wax the ceiling
- Rearrange political campaign signs
- Sharpen your teeth
- Play Houdini with one of your siblings
- Braid your dog’s hair
- Clean and polish your belly button
- Water your dog…see if he grows
- Wash a tree
- Knight yourself
- Name your child Edsel
- Scare Stephen King
- Give your cat a mohawk
- Purr
- Mow your carpet
- Play Pat Boone records backwards
- Vacuum your lawn
- Sleep on a bed of nails
- DON’T toss and turn
- Boil ice cream
- Run around in squares
- Think of quadruple entendres
- Speak in acronyms
- Have your pillow X-rayed
- Drink straight shots…of water
- Calmly have a nervous breakdown
- Give your goldfish a perm
- Fly a brick
- Play tag…on West 35th Street
- Exorcise a ghost
- Exercise a ghost
- Be blue
- Be red
- But don’t be orange
- Plant a shoe
- Sweat
- Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
- Turn
- Write a letter to Plato
- Mail it
- Take your sofa for a walk
- Start
- Stop
- Dial 911 and breathe heavily
- Go to a funeral…tell jokes
- Play the piano…with mittens on
- Scheme
- Sit
- Stay
- Water your family room
- Cause a power failure
- Roll over
- Play dead
- Find a witch
- Burn her
- Donate your brother’s body to science
- Ask why
- Wriggle
- Regress
- Sleepwalk without sleeping
- Try to join Hell’s Angels by mail
- Wonder
- Be a square root
- Ask stupid questions
- Weld your car doors shut
- Spew
- Vacation at Three-Mile Island
- Surf Ohio
- Teach your pet rock to play dead
- Go bowling for small game
- Be a monk…for a day
- Wear a sweatband to your wedding
- Staple
- Run away
- Intimidate a piece of chalk
- Abuse the plumbing
- Bend a florescent light
- Bend a brick
- Annoy total strangers
- Let the best man win
- Believe in Santa Claus
- Throw marshmallows against the wall
- Hold an ice cube as long as possible
- Adopt strange mannerisms
- Blow up a balloon until it pops
- Sing soft and sweet and clear
- Sing loud and sour and gravely
- Open everything
- Balance a pencil on your nose
- Pour milk in your shoes
- Write graffiti under the rug
- Embarrass yourself
- Grind your teeth
- Chew ice
- Count your belly button
- Sit in a row
- Stack crumbs
- Gesture
- Save your toenail clippings
- Make a pass at your blender
- Punt
- Make up words that start with X
- Make oatmeal in the bathtub
- Search for the Lost Chord
- Chew on a sofa cushion
- Sing a duet
- Balance a pillow on your head
- Hold your breath
- Faint
- Stretch
- Flash your mailman
- Teach your TA English
- Learn to speak Farsi
- Swear in Russian
- Use an eraser until it goes away
- Disassemble your car
- Put it together inside out
- Record your walls
- Interview your feet
- Make a list of your favorite fungi
- Sell formaldehyde
- Repeat
- Ad lib
- Fade
- File your teeth- Whine
- Rake your carpet
- Re-elect Richard Nixon
- Critique "Three’s Company"
- Listen to a painting
- Play with matches
- Buff your cat
- Race ferrets
- Paint your house…Day-Glow Orange
- Have a formal dinner at White Castle
- Read Homer in the original Greek
- Learn Greek
- Change your mind
- Change it back
- Watch the sun…see if it moves
- Build a pyramid
- Stand on your head
- Stand on someone else’s head
- Spit shine your Nikes
- See how long you can stay awake
- See how long you can sleep
- Paint your teeth
- Wear a salad
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Paint stripes on a lake
- Ski Kansas
- Sleep in freefall
- Kill a Joule
- Test thin ice…with a pogo stick
- Apply for a unicorn hunting license
- Do a good job
- Crawl
- Invite the Mansons over for dinner
- Paint your windows
- Watch a watch until it stops
- Flash your goldfish
- Paint
- Flirt with an evergreen
- Smile
- Rotate your garden…daily
- Paint a smile
- Shoot a fire hydrant
- Apologize to it
- Pretend you’re blind
- Annoy yourself
- Get mad at yourself
- Stop speaking to yourself
- Be a side effect
- Ride a bicycle…up Mt. McKinley
- Duck
- Redecorate…your garage
- Develop a complex
- Join the Army…be someone simple
- Try harder
- Hit the deck
- Put leg-warmers on your furniture
- Cut the deck
- Crumple
- Translate Shakespeare into English
- Skydive to church
- Cheer up a potato
- Do aerobic exercises…in your head
- Play cards with your swimming pool
- Pinstripe your driveway
- Play Kick the Fire Hydrant
- Harness chipmunk power
- Build a house with ice cubes
- Call London for a cab
- Mug a stop sign
- Change your name…daily
- Go for a walk in your attic
- Challenge your neighbor to a duel
- Build a house out of toothpicks
- Howl
- Wear a lampshade on your head
- Memorize the dictionary
- Stomp grapes in the bathtub
- Find a bug and chase it
- Make yourself a pair of wings
- Be immobile
- Dance ’til you drop
- Check under chairs for chewing gum
- Squish a loaf of bread
- Moo
- Bounce a potato
- Outmaneuver your shadow
- Climb the walls
- Appreciate everything
- Challenge yourself to a duel
- Make napalm
- Tattoo your dresser
- Watch a bowling ball
- Buy some diapers
- Eat everything
- Begin
- Pour milk in the sink
- Make cottage cheese
- Tie-dye your sheets
- Carpet your ceiling
- Hold your earlobes
- Fold your earlobes
- Flap
- Squawk
- Read tea leaves
- Analyze the Koran
- Be Buddha
- Award yourself a Nobel Peace Prize
- Plug in the cat
- Turn on everything
- Drop pebbles down the chimney
- Turn off your neighbor
- Kill a plant
- Buy a 1931 Almanac
- Memorize the weather section
- Think lewd thoughts about yourself
- Blow bubbles
- Send chills down your spine
- Peel grapes
- Make paper from the skins
- Bloat
- Catch them with your radiator
- Get run over by a train of thought
- Make up famous sayings
- Bite your pinkie- Get your dog braces
- Shave a shrub
- Have a proton fight
- Watch a car rust
- Quiver
- Rotate your carpet
- Learn to type…with your toes
- Set up your Christmas tree in April
- Be someone special
- Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
- Mail it to a friend
- Go back to square one
- Factor your social security number
- Take the fifth
- Memorize a series of random numbers
- Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages
- Join the Foreign Legion
- Learn Sanskrit
- Exist…existentially, of course
- Print counterfeit Confederate money
- Kick a cabbage
- Take a picture
- Put it back
- Sandpaper a mushroom
- Play solitaire…for cash
- Abuse your patio furniture
- Run for Pope
- Count to a million…fast
- Make a schematic drawing…of a rock
- Commit seppuku…with a paper knife
- Revert
- Think shallow thoughts
- Starch your shoes
- Polish your Calvin’s
- Contemplate a cockroach
- Get a dog to chase your car
- Let him catch it
- Investigate the Czar
- Form a political party
- Climb a sidewalk
- Have a political party
- Get diagonal…with a good friend
- Ride a loaf of bread
- Sharpen a carrot
- Interrogate a gerbil
- Go bow hunting for Toyotas
- Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids
- Jump back
- Play to lose
- Scalp a street light
- Have your car painted…plaid
- Read a tomato
- Sharpen your sleeping skills
- Watch a game show…take notes
- Put out a fire
- If you can’t find a fire, make one
- Interview a cloud
- Play tiddlywinks…go for blood
- Play basketball…in a minefield
- Don’t talk to things
- Draw Lewis structures on your ceiling
- Have your cat bronzed
- Have your gerbil gilded
- Write books about writing books
- Create random equations
- Mispell words
- Tell your feet a joke
- Throw a tomato into a fan
- Sing the ABC song backwards
- Pretend you’re a dog
- Dial-a-prayer and argue with it
- Grease the doorknobs
- String up a room
- Stack furniture
- Relive fond memories
- Tie your shoelaces together
- Gargle
- Count your teeth with your tongue
- Decay
- Find your half-life
- Design a better toilet seat
- Shred a newspaper
- Have a headache
- Scratch
- Sniff
- Hatch an egg
- Play air guitar
- Act profound
- Spill
- Spell
- Stare
- Truncate
- Slouch
- Develop hearing problems
- Put your feet behind your head
- Tie bows in everything
- Hold your hand
- Watch the minute hand move
- Grow your fingernails
- Pretend you’re a telephone
- Ring
- Radiate
- Skip
- Play hopscotch…with real scotch
- Clock the velocity of your REMs
- Put your shoes on the opposite feet
- Cross your toes
- Roll your tongue
- Crystallize
- Baby oil the floor
- Hide
- Attack innocent bunnies
- Declare war
- Destroy a tree
- Hide the scrabble bag
- Seduce your stick shift
- Wink
- Memorize the periodic table
- Mummify
- Pretend you’re a roadie
- Buy a Ginsu knife
- Collect electrons
- Correct typos that aren’t there
- Polish your neck…use Pledge
- Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God
- Loosen the lug nuts on your dad’s new car
- Drop your cat off the roof to see if it lands on all four feet
- Count the bags under Walter Mondale’s eyes
- Unscrew all the lightbulbs and rearrange the furniture
- Found the Jim Jones School of Bartending
- Listen for non-satanic messages (i.e. "Drink milk")
- Dress like Motley Crue…surprise your grandmother
- Dial-a-Prayer and tell them they’re wrong
- Go into a bar and ask for a Molotov Cocktail
- Learn everything there is to know about the Holy Roman Empire
- Make a drive-in window at your local bank where there wasn’t one before
- Walk on water…but don’t get caught
- Confess to a crime…that didn’t happen
- Be in the wrong place at the right time
- Plot the overthrow of your local School Board
- Request covert assistance from the CIA
- Discover the source of the Mississippi
- Search for buried treasure…in Nebraska
- Hot wax the bottom of your brother’s dress shoes
- Preach the philosophy of Marx…Groucho, that is
- Drink as much prune juice as you can
- Write a book about your previous life
- Serve ping-pong balls…as hors d’oeuvres
- Jump up and down…on your alarm clock
- Make a quilt out of used cocktail napkins
- Sterilize your stereo…with Jack Daniels
- Carve you and your girlfriend’s initials…in a marshmallow
- Drive the speed limit…in your garage
- Sing the national anthem…during your calculus final
- Wear a three-piece suit…in a sauna
- Pay off the national debt…with a bad check
- Go to a cemetary and verbally abuse dead people
- Give yourself a hernia…for Christmas
- Defend your neighborhood from roving Mongol hordes
- Recite romantic poetry…to your toaster
- See if you really can build a nuclear device in your own basement
- Go to McDonald’s and pretend you can’t speak English
- Write to your congressmen, senators, President, etc. to tell them what a good
- job they’re doing…On April 1st
- Find the heat capacity of your chemistry professor
- Take apart all your major kitchen appliances…mix and match them
- Turn your TV picture tube upside down
- Phone in a death threat on President Kennedy
- Put lighted EXIT signs on all your closets
- Carry a tune…drop it, see if it breaks
- Be planar…but don’t tell your parents
- Play hockey with your little cousin…as the puck
- Make a deal with the devil…but keep your fingers crossed
- Put instant concrete in your big brother’s waterbed
- Give a lecture on the historical significance of cream cheese
- Debate politics with a fern
- See how small you can scrunch your face- Sell firewood door to door…in Atlantis
- Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organization)
- Play nuclear chicken with a small third world nation
- Raise professional certified racing turnips
- Give your grandmother a raise and another day of paid vacation
- Lead an aerobics class…for patients of the I.C.U.
- Go to a drive-in movie in a tank
- Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank and drive in anyway
- Send President Reagan an alarm clock…wind it up first
- Found a cockroach stable and stud ranch
- Send your goldfish to obedience school
- Free the oppressed toasters of America
- Weave a tablecloth out of copper tubing
- Give your cat a suntan…in the microwave
- Park your car…with a friend
- Park your car…with a group of friends
- Frame your first statement of bankruptcy
- Place it on the wall of your office
- Solve the population problem (x^2 + y^2 = population…solve for x)
- Contribute to the population problem
- Wear a T-shirt that says "I’ll walk on you to see The Who" and a peace sign
- Practice the Aztec method of heart removal on your professor
- Find out who made the super glue commercials and give them your Ginsu knife
- Get Ronco and K-tel to merge…they sell the same stuff anyway
- Sneak into a nuclear physics lab and stay the night
- Play with anything that looks interesting
- Drop piston engines on two people and see who squishes first
- See if your goldfish can live in Coors rather than water
- Try to ignite water…the Mississippi might work
- Draw Venn diagrams…screw them up
- State fallacies as fact (like, "peanuts grow on bushes")
- Visit the Architecture building…loudly criticize its design
- Make a schematic drawing…of a rock
- Wallpaper your laundry room…with pages from books you don’t like
- See if diamonds really do cut glass…on everything in your neighbor’s house
- Tenderize your tongue…chew on it for a while
- See how long you can stare at a fluorescent light…try green
- Bronze your sister’s turtle
- See how long it takes for her to notice
- See what she does when she notices
- Bronze your sister- If you lose, stop watering it and try again.
- Increase your territorial holdings by force
- Find out how many ways there really are to skin a cat
- Boldly go where no man has gone before
- Be a threat to the American way of life
- Do research into the cause of World War III
- Be a threat to the Northwestern Tibetan way of life
- Re-establish the Roman Empire…in Pittsburgh

Hi, I am a 26 year old female who has a dream of pursuing a career in acting. I acted all through high school which I loved, but after I graduated I still wasn’t really sure of who I was yet or what I really wanted to do with my life so I had no intention of going to college right away until I figured all that out first. I have gone through a lot of changing and finding myself in the last 9 years. Right after I graduated I got side tracked on my path to discovering myself and I headed into my "party days" which I think everyone eventually goes through and during that time I made some pretty poor choices, one of them being the idea that I wanted to get a tattoo without even researching what design I wanted or anything first. Being my first tattoo I didn’t know where to go or who was good so I just picked a place and went there. I chose a generic rose design off the wall and the lady did a horrible job and ruined my first tattoo. I was so upset, but only a few months later I went in for another tattoo and then another until now i have 8 total tattoos. (They are not all from the same place.) Getting tattoos whether you have bad ones or not is extremely addicting like drugs. Plus a lot of what I did during that time in my life is a blur as to why I did them. Well now that I am older and a different person than I was back then, I regret all of them, not because I hate tattoos, but because of what I got, where I got them, and who tattooed them for me. If I had a clean slate, which I don’t, I would have 3 or 4 and I would choose more small elegant designs in more hidden places from an artist that would do them right. If that would have been the case I would probably have no problem right now because I would love them and they would be more compatible with my life. Since cover up creams don’t really cover and all methods of removal is painful and way too expensive, I made the decision to have all of mine fixed and or covered up with new ones from the recent artist that I really like and whos work is awesome. So far (still a work in progress) they all looking much better then before, but now some of them are much bigger making it even harder to conceal under clothing. Since I can’t just start all over I figured that atleast trying to make them better would give me more self confidence again. It is working because I am starting to feel pretty and sexy again. For years I wouldn’t even wear a bikini strapped tank top or bathing suit in public because I was so embarrassed of my tattoos. Well, a few weeks ago I reliezed that I am finally ready to go to college and make something of myself. As of right now I am planning on getting an RTF (radio television film) degree which I am really excited about and think I would be good at, but all of that is mostly behind the camera stuff and when in front of the camera it is broadcasting type stuff not really character acting. I am finding that I still dream of acting on tv or in theatre and I keep finding myself wanting to take more acting classes and everything to do with the drama department. I am really confused. I can’t seem to get it off my mind and I know that even though my tattoos are getting fixed, will I ever be presentble for a career in acting? What should I do? Fixing my tattoos right now is all about being able to feel good and accept myself again, but I don’t know if I am too tattooed for a career in acting or not.
My tattoos are starting to look much better than they did before, but even so, I still only "LOVE" 3 of them. All the others just look okay to me now, but they are defintely not what I would have chosen if I had a clean slate. How do I learn to accept myself again and be confident with my body and tattoos knowing that though they are not ugly anymore they are still never what I wanted them to be?
I just want my self esteem back. I remember how i was in high school and I was so confident and happy and it sometimes feels like my tattoos alone shattered that for me. I need to find that love for myself again, but I don’t know how. Please give me some advice on how to love myself again despite my very much regreted tattoos.

when they are just gonna get them removed, I heard a girl say the other day when she was getting a tattoo that she is probably going to have it removed in 5 years…stupid, is it that easy to remove tattoos? cause last time I heard the creams didnt work and laser removal just makes a scarred outline.

i got a tattoo that says the more shit you go through, the stronger you become, its dumb i know, i was young and didn’t know what i was doing,
my question is are there any tattoo removal creams you’ve tried that worked? or is my only option laser ?

I plan to get one of those creams to fade 3 tattoos. (2 small & one quite large). So when I go get the laser removal, it’s cheaper & more effective. Luckily they are all black. In the research I’ve done so far, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the best color to fade out. I’m a mother of 2 kids, no longer rebellious & plan to become a teacher in a few years, so I’m trying to fix a few regrets I have. My life has taken a major turn in the last 10 years. I appreciate all of your help & I would hope that no one leaves any rude comments. Thank you.
Thank you Justin~ I called Wrecking Balm earlier today, it’s 9.95. Still cheaper than 1 session @ the doc’s with the laser!

The process of tattooing involves needles that move at very fast speeds to penetrate the outer layers of the skin. The needles break the skin, and inject dots of ink into the third layer, creating the image of the tattoo design in the skin. Whenever you are getting a tattoo, common sense and a bit of safety are always the most important considerations.

When getting a tattoo, most people fear getting the virus known as HIV, which can lead to the dreaded AIDS virus. Although many fear HIV, it is just one of the many viruses that can result from tattoos. Staph, syphilis, tuberculosis, and hepatitis are all but a few of the other diseases that can result from tattoos. All it takes is a dirty or unsanitary needle and you could wind up contracting one of the deadly viruses listed above.

Just like other activities, tattooing can be very dangerous. Although tattooing is indeed dangerous, there are ways that you can minimize or eliminate the potential dangers. Each and everyday, tattoo artists have to adhere to a strict code of safety to ensure that the risk of contracting HIV or any other diseases is little to none.

Professional tattoo artists will sterilize their equipment after each use. They use steam pressure autoclave when disinfecting their tattoo guns and needles. Bleach and alcohol dont sterilize the equipment; they are instead used to prep the equipment. Once the bleach and alcohol have been used on the instruments, they will then be autoclaved, which will sterilize them.

When the tattoo artist does the tattoo, he should always wear rubber gloves that can easily be disposed of. The ointment spreaders and any type of rags that are used should also be disposable. When you walk into the tattoo studio, the floors should be spotless. In the rooms where the tattoos are done, the working area should always be clean and sanitary.

Before the tattooist starts the tattoo, he should always give each customer a brand new set of fresh needles. Then, he should always dip the needle in a small cap of pigment that he just took out of a large squeezable bottle. If the artist dips the needle into the big bottle, you may very well be sharing fluids with those who have had tattoos from that same big bottle.

Whenever you decide to get a tattoo you should always put safety first. Safety is very important with tattoos, as you could otherwise get a disease or a serious infection. Before you decide on a tattoo studio, you should always make sure that they are clean and sanitary. If you get a tattoo from a studio that is dirty or unsanitary, you could wind up on a never ending spiral of infections and viruses.

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So its only 4 days old and I’ve been told to try a lot of crazy thing. Like to pick at it, wash it in hot water. I really would like to stay away from laser removal, because I do want another one someday. If there’s any way like a cream that will help fade it so I can cover it up easier that would be the best. Its big and dark blue in the middle of my back and it looks like a child draw it on. So if your ever in Eugene, Or and want to know where not to go, just ask!

The removal of a tattoo is often thought of as being a very painful process. Although the process may have been very painful in the past, the technology of today offers methods of removing tattoos. Currently, there are two options to remove tattoos that are rapidly becoming more and more popular laser technology and light based technology.

Both surgeries used light energy to destroy the ink in the tattoo. The ink in the tattoo will absorb the energy of the light, breaking it up. Once the ink starts to break up, it can easily be passed through and out of your body through filtering. In most cases this is extremely safe, as the ink is broken down into micro size to where it can easily pass through the body with no complications.

The process is actually similar to the surgery in which hair is removed. The surgeon or doctor who performs the surgery will hold a wand to the skin that is being treated. As he does this, the pulses of light are aimed at the tattoo, breaking up the ink. The wand is normally held right up against the tattoo, as this makes the pulses of light much more effective.

Normally, the feeling that youll experience is best described as an elastic or rubber band flicking constantly against your skin. If the tattoo is big, the pain could certainly be a bit more intense. The area where the tattoo is at is also important, as sensitive areas may cause you quite a bit of pain and discomfort. If the area in which you have the tattoo doesnt have a lot of muscle or tissue, youll more than likely want to be numbed as much as possible before starting the procedure.

Both laser and light based treatments are somewhat similar. With both tattoo removal procedures, the doctor that is doing the procedure will always apply a cooling gel to the tattoo area that is being treated to cool the skin and conduct the energy of the light. This cooling gel helps to draw the light, and at the same time protect your skin. The gel will feel cool to the touch, although it will help your skin when the light pulses start to break the ink apart.

If youve been thinking about having a tattoo removed you should consider both light and laser based procedures. Keep in mind that they are both expensive, and both impose risks. Depending on how big your tattoo is and what the procedure involves, you may need to spend a night or two in the hospital. Even though both procedures do offer ways to have your tattoo removed, youll need to think long and hard before you make a final decision.

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No one is willing to help me remove this so I need some safe alternatives. I look like I am painted up for Halloween. This was a huge mistake I made, but I need to know what creams or methods would help it to fade and to remove the pigmentation. I don’t want to become a recluse. Thanks.

I called laser centers (no luck) said it would turn grey, plastic surgeons and a tattoo removal place (they don’t do facial makeup). No one would help.

I had this done yesterday so I thought I might have a chance to remove the ink before it completely heals.

inked area is 1/2" x 6"
ROCK…I’m not a man at all.

I have a black 2×7 inch tribal tattoo on my shoulder blade that is only a few months old, and because it’s so new and because my pale skin absorbs ink so well (my other black tattoos are 8-10 years old and are still quite dark), I didn’t know if laser would even be worth it, since it might be too "fresh" and take 20 or more sessions.

Has anyone had success removing a tattoo that was only a year or two old when you started the process? (and if so, what color was yours and how many sessions did it take?)

*And before anyone judges me, my most recent tattoo was not a spur of the moment thing, or a drunk thing, or a naive thing. I’m well aware that tattoos are meant to be permanent. I’m in my thirties and spent a year designing my most recent tattoo, but (without going into detail) I had a very traumatic personal tragedy happen the day after the tattoo, and now my negative association has really added to the trauma and is psychologically throwing me into a depression, and I just want this tattoo OFF of me so that I don’t have the constant reminder. ALSO: a cover up is NOT an option.

Thanks!
NOTE: I’m in the L.A. area, and I’d also love it if anyone has any recommendations on good places (not Dr. Tattoff or scammers who will charge me more than other places just because they’re featured on reality shows!). And to Sum1Special, yes, the ink has already set in, since it was done a couple months ago now and was done healing after the first few weeks.