“The best questions to ask a laser or non-laser tattoo removal technician
should be about the effectiveness of the procedure (how many treatments,
what colors of ink can be removed), pain, scarring, and expense......Pam Neighbors
How to Get Rid of that Ugly Tattoo!
Watching the Real Housewives of Orange County YouTube video of Tamra Barney’s laser
tattoo removal is like watching a root canal and expecting to be thrilled about going to the dentist. After screaming in pain
and noticing the “horrible” smell (“like flesh burning”), she tells the audience that laser tattoo removal is “pure pain.”
Yet, with a tattoo-sporting generation arriving at new phases in their lives, many people feel forced to submit to the
multiple painful, expensive treatments that laser tattoo removal requires.
Until now, laser has been the only answer for how to remove a tattoo.
The recent development of a breakthrough non-laser tattoo removal procedure, Tattoo Vanish™ , may be replacing laser techniques and making painful, expensive procedures obsolete. Using a salt-based product along with a specialized “needling” technique, the new technique alleviates fear of pain and costs far less than laser removal. It also avoids the scarring that can occur in some laser tattoo removal situations.
The recent development of a breakthrough non-laser tattoo removal procedure, Tattoo Vanish™ , may be replacing laser techniques and making painful, expensive procedures obsolete. Using a salt-based product along with a specialized “needling” technique, the new technique alleviates fear of pain and costs far less than laser removal. It also avoids the scarring that can occur in some laser tattoo removal situations.
So how do you know if you are ready for tattoo removal, and which procedure is right for you?
Tattoo removal expert Pam Neighbors encourages her clients to answer four simple questions: |
Does your tattoo express who you are now?
The tattoo you were so proud of when you were in your teens, twenties, or denotes a love from the past, may remain a
kinesthetic ghost of who you used to be rather than who you are now. Tattoo Removal expert, Pam Neighbors, claims that the
majority of her non-laser tattoo removals symbolize former lives or are names of old boyfriends or spouses. “People need to
grow as life changes. Yet, what amazes me most is that people still love tattoos as they move forward---they just don’t want
“that” tattoo,” says Neighbors.
We change our hair, clothes, and even our cars to express who we want the world to see. A tattoo is a symbol that lives in our skin, the most personal expression of what we want people to know about us. An old tattoo can become a haunting from the past, and for many people, removing it celebrates who they have become. |
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Jade’s Story: When Removing a Tattoo Means Celebrating a New Life
Professional model Jade de Synadinos had the word “dangeous” (spelled wrong) tattooed into her shoulder with a homemade
tattoo gun when she was 15. “I was a bit wild because I lived with a single mom.
My dad had left when I was 13 and was struggling with drug use, so I couldn’t see him due to a restraining order.
He would sneak into my basketball games, but between that tension and hanging out
in a rural town where meth was the social thing to do, it was easy to get into drugs myself.
Even though I loved my mom, she couldn’t control me.”After Jade “ran-off” for some time, her mother remembered that she loved posing for pictures when she was a little girl. She offered Jade a second chance: Come back home, get clean, and she would pay for Jade to enter an upcoming national competition for a modeling contract. <read the rest of Jade's story> |
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Is your tattoo preventing you from a career change or promotion?
In most people’s opinion, having a tattoo shouldn’t influence a job or military recruiter,
but the reality is that many companies---
and even the Armed Services—have tattoo policies or at least “perceptions,” that might prevent you from applying or enlisting.
Even if you are hired or already enlisted, you might find a promotion denied due to an existing tattoo. For stressed job hunters on already tight budgets, non-laser tattoo removal now makes getting rid of a tattoo much more affordable and far less painful. |
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Amanda’s Story:
Amanda Porta had a ring tattooed on her finger during a Spring Fling break, never guessing that removing it years later
would be one of the worst experiences of her life. “I was working in the beauty industry,
and I wanted to move into management. I was going on job interviews with this ring tattoo,
and it just didn’t look professional. I knew that other methods of tattoo removal (fading creams) weren’t very effective, so I felt I had no other choice than laser removal.” Yet after four “intensely painful” laser treatments, Amanda was left with a faded but very noticeable ring tattoo still intact. Tommy’s Story: Removing a Tattoo for the Armed Services
When 19-year-old Tommy Smith (not his real name) announced to his parents
that he wanted to join the Armed Forces, they didn’t expect anything to stop
him. “We are a military family,” explained his mother, Susan, “and though
we never pressured him to serve, Tommy so looked up to the role models in
his life.” Always 100 percent behind their son, the Smiths hired a tutor
to help him pass the ASVAB test, paid for a small cataract to be removed
from Tommy’s eye, and helped him train for the physical demands of boot camp.“After everything we went through, we weren’t ready for a tattoo to prevent him from enlisting! We just freaked out,” said Susan. <read the rest of Tommy's story> |
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Do you have a poorly done tattoo?
“So many people come to me with tattoos that were so far from what they asked for,” explains Pam,
“Sometimes, it was obviously an inexperienced artist who did the work. Sometimes,
it is was a huge misinterpretation of what they wanted.
It just kills me when something that should have been a great experience for someone goes so wrong.” The tattoo removal expert went on to say that some of the worst tattoos-gone-wrong are those done on the face: brows, lips, or eyeliner. These can leave a person self-conscious for many years. Fortunately, with the introduction of the new non-laser tattoo removal process, even permanent make-up tattooing can be removed and redone.  |
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Ask yourself, “What is stopping me from removing my tattoo?”
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