First Picosure Done - Mountain View, CA

How's the removal process going? How many have you had? I know EXACTLY how you feel! I am in the process of removing two tattoos. I want to cry when I look at them. I just want the ugly things gone

I hear you and i feel your pain... me too, totally messed up! made a terrible mistake.. depression.. emotions all over the place ... everything just spiralled out of control....what was i thinking ?? Add to that the tattooists didn't do what i wanted, ended up way bigger than originally planned and didn't finish in one sitting as discussed...so now half an unfinished tat covering most of my arm. Also within hours it became badly infected and i ended up very ill, total nightmare and very depressed, just want it gone!! Mine is much worse than yours if thats any consolation... but have just had first removal treatment which went very well .. hang on in there, i'm telling myself that this time next year it will all be gone ! in the meantime i just cover up...thank god its winter !

Hey there, thanks so much for taking the time to share your journey with us!! You will find an amazing amount of support here, such a wonderful community! I read in a comment you posted that you have a back piece and many other tattoos, will you be just fading this for a cover up?

I think your opportunity sounds like a great plan, it will give you a chance to gain some clarity in all this. Regret is a really hard pill to swallow but in time it gets much easier. Just stay grounded through all of this, it is what it is...right?! 

You already have such wonderful fading, there is no need to be depressed. Everytime I hate my tattoo, I tell myself that it is SUCH an insignificant problem. We have our health, we can afford things like getting tattoos removed. WE will survive some stupid ink on our body that with enough time WILL be gone....especially with all the new picosecond lasers slated to come out during 2015.

It sounds like you're having a bad emotional time at the moment. At some level you're focusing all of that on the tattoo and it's become the symbol of your emotions. Try to keep things in perspective: it's a small tattoo and you can and will remove it, it just takes time. Try to use that time to do other stuff. Getting out of bed can be hard, but if you do it, and do other things, the tattoo really won't seem that important. Also, you weren't stupid. You did something which you thought would help you - the key word there is 'thought' - and it turned out that it didn't, but there's no way you could have known that then. You weren't stupid at all, and getting it removed isn't stupid either. You can do it!