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My tattoo removal experience - Costa Rica

UPDATED FROM Nati24k
1 year post

4 month old healed tattoos update!

WORTH IT$900
Hey, I think i should made an update, because all who has tattoos knows that is not the same a freshly made tattoo than an old one. Im still happy! The other day a girl in Chili's told me: Hey! I really like the typography on your tattoos! Really love it!" And I also get told things like: "Hey who do you love?" and I just smile and say a lot of things and people.

It's fun, because the main reason I remove them was bc nobody could read what it said, and everybody was like: "is that Chinese? what does that says?" But now its soooo cool that people didn't have to ask me, because they already know what it says!

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Nicely done-looks great! Great message that's hard to argue with:)!
Awesome, so happy for you!! Looks great, love the font. Interesting about the white ink, glad you were able to share that with the community, never seen the results of that before. 
UPDATED FROM Nati24k
1 year post

THIS IS THE END!

So, I guess this is the end!

Thanks to all of you who have been there since the beginning, and those who came before. I really hope this site will help people to take decisions about tattoos and tattoo removal, you can tell by the pics it wasn’t fun at all. It was painful, and long, and expensive and tedious. Of course I would’ve preferred to spend those $900 in new ink! or other stuff!

Brief:

• 5 laser session - $500

• 3 white ink sessions - $240

• 1 final tattoo session - $160

No, tattoos are not permanent, but when you get one, it’s a pain in the ass to get it removed, so THINK, think about everything that involves getting a tattoo. Think about your life, think about your job, think about your skin (oh god I sound like an old lady, but hey is true!)

• Would I go through this process again? Not in a million years

• Was it worth it? Yes! there where some days that I was like, what in hell am I doing? but the results are amazing, and I am more than happy now.

• Would you recommend this? Yeah why not, anyways I think that the white ink, removed more than the laser did.

• How am I feeling right now? I’m in pain. But happy that this has come to an end.

 Feel free to ask whatever you want!

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hey, awesome. congratulations. I remember following you on tumblr before I even started my journey last December. good to see youre closing this chapter of your life now.
Hey! thanks a lot :)
UPDATED FROM Nati24k
1 year post

11 months later

Hey, so i don't update here as much as i update the tumblr site, but I can still make a short story here. In the end I had 5 laser treatments, and until now I have had 3 white ink sessions. White ink really works if you are planning on covering it. So here is where I am. This Sunday I have another white ink session, and then the real deal comes. My wedding is in less than two months so the clock is ticking on me, bcause i want the new ink for my wedding!

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Hi...Your results look good after the 3 white ink sessions, but what exactly is a white ink session?
Hi, thanks a lot! They look good, I'm very happy. Basically it's a white ink tattoo. The tattoo artist uses white ink to paint the old tattoos, actually the last session wasn't white, it was like a skin tone ink he made.
Oh ok...yea i have heard about that bf....is it like a regular tattoo artist or one who specializes in dermatology/permanent makeup? I see you are getting another white ink session...and then are you done?..or what is yr plan? Also read that you are getting new letters tattooed over. Sorry for all the questions, I just never saw actual results of white ink treatments.
It's actually a regular tattoo artists, just a good one, who knows how to apply the white ink. If someone who doesn't knows how to do it it will fall off and it will give no results. Actually it was fun, I was supposed to have another white ink session yesterday, and when I arrived my tattoo artist said we had two options, have another white session or go with the final ink! I had a lot of months to think the words, the font, the colors, everything! so yeah I was ready! So we talked about 1 hour, put on the stencils several times on my fingers to see if I liked them, and yes! It was complicated, because of the scars, but I’m so happy, they look sooo gooood, you can hardly see the old tattoos.
Hey Nati, thanks for all of your feedback!...and btw, your script looks awesome, very clean lines :) CONGRATULATIONS!! you made it through the long haul...
Yes! I'm happy, now we just have to wait and see how it looks when healed. I really hope this helps a lot of people on making decisions about tattoos and it's removal
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