My Tattoo Removal Journey - London, WV

I am just starting out with my tattoo removal journey, and we'll aware it's going to be a long and painful process.

I've had a tattoo on my wrist for probably about 7 years now and have wanted it gone for pretty much the entire 7 years! I was in a long term relationship and we very stupidly decided to get matching tattoos. I wanted something small and cute on my ankle, but ended up getting a large tattoo on my wrist. We had always loved Kandinsky paintings, and so decided to get a circle tattoo...It looked lovely in a painting, but I hated it the second I had it done.

Anyway the relationship ended 5 years ago, and I am still left with this tattoo as a constant reminder; so finally am doing something about it. I'm quite lucky that it had faded already, and as it was so painful having it done, I never had it retouched.

I had my first session 6 days ago, which wasn't as initially painful as I expected. It was the hours after having it done which were the worse- I can only describe it as a deep bring sensation. My wrist swelled up for a few hours, but after that settled down.

There was a lot of pinpoint bleeding, and within a couple of hours the blister formed. The black ink around the outside was fine, but the blue ink really blistered and was painful.

After 6 days the blisters have gone, but it's still very red and sore. I am noticing small patches form already on the black, but the blue ink still needs a lot of healing.

Sorry if the pics are a little graphic, but thought it might help prepare someone who is thinking of going through this.

I've got my next session booked for 5 weeks time, so hopefully everything will be healed up by then.

So its been 2 weeks and it's starting to heal up nicely. Still a little tender, and I have a few bumps forming on the black ink...It doesn't hurt and so guess it's just part of the healing process.

The blue has faded more than I expected already, although it's not fully healed up, and so can't be sure by how much yet. This part blistered the most and so I am a little worried that I could get scar damage here....I'm probably over thinking it a bit!!
I'm also noticing a lot of small grey patches forming, they aren't very large, but everyday it seems to be getting slightly lighter...They are lots of little circles...The photos don't show these too clearly.

I've got about 4 weeks till my next session, which hopefully will give my skin enough time to heal up.

So I had my second session done yesterday, and it seems to be healing very different from the first time. I had a big falling out with the woman who performed it, so think not sure I'll be going back there...my bf wants me to report her, so thought I'd share my experience on here...

I was supposed to have my second session done about 2 weeks ago, but she cancelled the appointment and so I had to reschedule....well I say cancel, but really she just closed the clinic that day and didn't tell me, so I was left standing outside for 20 minutes before giving up and going home. Anyway she eventually emailed me back informing me her mother had passed away so the clinic was closed for 2 weeks....so I felt really bad about being angry and booked back in to have another session.

Anyway, I arrived for my treatment (after waiting on the doorstep 10 minutes to be let in) and not only did she have no idea who I was or why I was there, she had another treatment booked in...so I sat patiently and waited another 20 minutes to be seen!

First time I was there she offered my a 'lifetime deal' of 10 or more treatments for £200. I wasn't sure if that was right for me and so told her I would do the 3 treatments I had originally paid for, and take it from there...as soon as I told her I didn't want the deal I could see her mood and attitude immediately change...literally without warning she started the treatment (before I had put the protective goggles on!) Which actually made me cry out in shock. Worst thing was she hadn't even checked what setting it was on, so the bottom part of ths tattoo has a blister from high setting.

It was a lot more painful than I remember and I asked her to stop for a bit, but she didn't. So I had the whole thing done in one go without any breaks. She spend maybe 1-2 minutes doing the treatment and then told me I was ready to go...

I have 1 more treatment left, but my bf really doesn't want me to go back to her...and I'm not sure I do either.

But it's not blistered like it did last time, but instead my wrist feels a bit achy and swollen. I have little red blood spots on the blue patch, but it so far hasn't blistered like the first time...which I'm not complaining about!!!