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Tattoo - Chronicles of Getting Them and Removing Them
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Nothing new. Just letting the excision scar heal.
motv8May 3, 2014
WORTH IT$2,700
I haven't had anything done since march. I'm always very busy. My forearm isn't looking very good. Excision scar looks like a pink worm. It goes dark purple when exercising. I hope it isn't keloids.
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Appreciate the Wisdom we earn through the mistakes we make.
motv8March 22, 2014
I don't live in regret, embarrassment or anything reflective of negative emotion. Everything we go through makes us wiser and stronger. I now look before leaping and take the time to think things through with all aspects of my life. If I had my time again with the knowledge I now have, I wouldn't have a single tattoo and I would be happily walking around with unmarked skin (the way we are all born). Like the rest of you fellow bloggers I don't have the luxury of that so I choose to go through any pain or discomfort in removing my terrible home-job tattoo's and I can still appreciate the professional ones I did get, even if they were the choice of a young teenager, and certainly not the fully grown man I am today.
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March 22, 2014
Hey man, thank-you for bravely sharing your story, much appreciated. Do you mind me asking what make/model your machine is? Do you think you'll ever go back for professional treatments to get the job done? I've heard that the small, table-top lasers like yours can be good to get the fading started, but they often don't possess the power the complete the removal, as the leftover ink becomes a bit more stubborn. Thanks again, I look forward to following the rest of your experience.
March 22, 2014
I'm heading into that stage now it appears. If need be I'll go back to a professional place to get the final treatment or two. Hopefully that wont be the case as I have spent so much already and am now a student again. Also I no longer have that machine as it broke down. I have set a friend up with an even better machine than the one I had (you can see my one in some of the pictures). Today I am getting lasered by him in an hour from now. If he's ok with it I'll video it being done and post on here.
March 23, 2014
The machine my friend is lasering me with was purchased on ebay for $1700nzd and its make/model: VICTORY-2A. The machine I owned and originally used was a generic machine off ebay. It wasn't as powerful as this victory laser.
March 23, 2014
Ok, took a quick look at the specification. It's maximum energy, per pulse, looks to be 200mj. The majority of the expensive laser models you find in clinics (revlite, medlite, quanta q plus etc) all generally have a minimum power output, per pulse, of 1J (1000mj) at 1064nm. I'll message you a link to an article now, which discusses what sets the lasers that costs tens of thousands of dollars apart from the small ones you can purchase on eBay. I know a lot of this comes down money, but I'm wondering now, as you head towards the end stages of removal with some of your tattoos, if it could be more effective and less damaging to your skin if you were to have a couple of treatments at a clinic with a decent spec laser, to finish the job? Like a I said previously (and I'm no expert, just going off stuff I've read) those small lasers can be good at getting the ball rolling, but in order to get to the stubborn stuff there needs to be sufficient peak power generated, which unfortunately they generally aren't capable of producing. Hope that helps a little.
March 24, 2014
At the moment It seems to still be fading. But when it appears to be, not having enough effects I'll be heading in for one or two treatments with the powerful machines. Thanks for the information, much appreciated.
March 22, 2014
I have a theory that the laser struggles to get through the layers of skin to reach the deeper sitting pigment. In my case the home job tattoo ink is sitting as deep as 4mm (in the fat). I wonder if I safely removed the top layer(s) of skin eg. the epidermis and possibly even the dermis would the laser be able to reach the pigment easier or is that foolishly dangerous? I know more primitive tattoo removal procedures involved dermabrasion. But I need to know if its dangerous combining the two together. Any doctors or dermatologist opinions will be greatly appreciated!
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Just checking in to see how you are doing since your last update. Hope all is well :)