I Need my Tattoo Removed, I Am Severely Allergic to It - Best Procedure?

November 17, 2011
Asked By:BellaTrixter in warwick RI

I have several tattoos but never knew there was a such thing as an "allergy to a tattoo". A few weeks after my foot tattoo healed I realized something was really off about it. I've had it for like 5 months now and I am certainly allergic to one particular ink used. Its small but on two separate spots of my body, foot and wrist. I've heard laser removal is really painful and your flesh sound like "frying bacon" under the laser. Ew, the pain of getting the tattoo on my foot was bad enough.

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