How to Get Rid of Tattoos

Scrub it, fade it, peel it, cut it, grind it, sand it, erase it, zap it, blast it, or re-ink it… when it comes to getting rid of an unwanted tattoo, please just make it go away.

You thought getting a tattoo was a brilliant idea back then.  But that was then and this is now.  And now you wish you knew then, what you know now.  All you know is you have a tattoo and you want to make your tattoo go away.

They say you can’t change the past but you can change the future of living with tattoo regret, with tattoo removal.  And when it comes to tattoo removal methods there are choices to be made.  So which way will you choose to remove your tattoo?

Will you fade your tattoo away by erasing the appearance of ink with tattoo fading creams that lighten and exfoliate skin cells?

Perhaps you’ll use a peel away method to get rid of your tattoo.  A series of chemical peels with medical grade solutions such as TCA or Glycolic acids directly applied to the tattoo by a trained doctor to peel off the tattoo skin layer by layer eventually removing it.

You can always opt to surgically cut away your tattoo away. Surgical excision is a tattoo removal method that literally cuts the tattoo skin out and stitches the surrounding skin together leaving a scar.  This is not an option for extremely large tattoos or tattoos in areas with limited extra skin to pull together and suture.

But then there are the old sand and grind tattoos away techniques to remove tattoos.  Dermabrasion tattoo removal essentially sands a tattoo away from the surface down. The tattoo area is numbed or frozen then a instrument similar to an electric sanding device abrades the tattoo skin away. Salabrasion is also an older, technique performed to remove away tattoos using a solution of water and course salt that is rubbed and ground manually into the skin.

You can choose to blast and zap away your tattoo with lasers. Laser tattoo removal is the newest and most popular tattoo removal considered. Laser light beams target energy that penetrates the skin and is absorbed by the actual tattoo ink particles.  The laser energy builds within the ink pigment then causes it to burst into smaller fragments that the body then absorbs.  These repeated over and over makes the tattoo to go away.

Of course, if you decide not to scrub, fade, peel, cut, grind, sand, erase, zap, or blast your tattoo away you can re-ink it.

Re-working a new tattoo design over your unwanted tattoo is a way to cover up your tattoo regret and forgo the process of the other tattoo removal methods.  However, getting a cover-up tattoo is not quite as simple as getting your original tattoo.  Re-inking involves more labor on the artist part, which translates to more money coming from your end. 

The decision is yours to make on how to make your tattoo go away.

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2 Responses to “Make Tattoos Go Away”


  1. DIY Tattoo Removal - Tattoo Removal Information says:

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  2. stan says:

    i know someone who has a tattoo and has been to many laser removals and they say there is nothing that can be done. they truely want this removed . But it’s 4 and a half inches wide and 6 and a half inches high and some doctors say they can surgicaly remove it but the person dont think they can do it how would you go about this if you had to sand it off

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