How Long Does It Take to Remove a Tattoo?

Tattoo removal is a complicated procedure. There are several factors that will determine how many treatments you will need. These factors include: color, location on body, layering, scarring and ethnicity. Colors that are easier to remove are blacks, dark blues and reds. All other colors are harder to remove and are typically more expensive to treat as well. The location of the tattoo on your body also will help or hinder the treatments needed. Tattoos closer to your heart, such as chest and  neck, will require less treatments. If a tattoo was layered over another tattoo, that also will increase your treatment numbers tremendously, simply because there is a lot more ink that needs to be dissolved. Scarring will create a rough thick layer that will hinder the laser’s penetration depth making it trickier to treat a tattoo. Because all tattoo removal lasers target pigment, a darker skinned person may need more treatments at lower levels to prevent the laser from targeting their natural skin tone and causing hypopigmentation. Treatments typically are scheduled about a month apart.

There different lasers available for tattoo removal such as the YAG or RUBY Laser.  It usually requires 8-10 treatments for significant fading. The treatments are given one month apart.