Tattoo Disaster - Want It Removed!! - Paris, France

Hi everybody, I'm Louise from Paris, France, and thanks to Frenchmilitary, I got to know this website. I'm 23 and already around 15 tattoos that I love. But the last one I got was a huge mistake! It was done exactly one year ago (january the 4th 2014) and I tried to cover up some parts of it last summer, in July 2014. The tattooist I went to see seemed not very interested in doing my tattoo (like some tattooist just need money so they do stuff they don't like and it's a real mess...). I should have canceled my second appointment (filling my outline with colors).. The thing is I had no idea which colors the tattooist had planed to use, and as you see on the pics I've posted, she changed some colors while she was tattooing me, and I think the turquoise blue has nothing to do with what's on the previous design: according to me, it just doesn't look right on my thigh..
Very soon after I got my second session with this tattooist, I just couldn't see myself with it, and even before it got healed I went to another tattooist and tried to change some parts of it. But it got worse! I had the snake colored in black, some flowers got some other black outline added, and the dagger some more colors added. I had two sessions to get the whole thing "retouched". Ho and btw, I was so embarrassed and sad about the whole story that I did not take a pictures of my final "cover up attempt", so you can only see that the snake is all black on the pic I took after my first 2 treatments.

So, talking about laser treatments, I had a first one in september 2014 with Q Switch NYag laser, which showed very encouraging results only on the black and red inks. After some research, I contacted another center where they use Picosure laser. So I had a second session with Pico on the 19th of December. I've been reading many reviews on this website, and many people seem to respond very well to the Pico treatments on colors, except from the black and red ink. If I saw a lot of fading on the black and red ink after my first Q Switch session, I saw none with the Pico because the doctor treated almost only the black and red ink... So I think I'm gonna have a talk with this doctor!
Forgot to say I'm always using a numbing cream, otherwise the pain is absolutely unbearable..

So today, what's happening? Well, I think I will probably undergo Q Switch for black and red and Pico for the other colors. I tried to book and appointment for a 3rd session with Pico before the end of january (I am traveling abroad for 3 months on january 30 until april 30) but they had no availability, so I booked up with Q Switch for the 23th of january and I will probably keep you updated a few days after I got this 3rd session done!

Finally, I would like to shout out a special thanks to Frenchmilitary and EvaG --> even if I don't know you Eva, I've been reading your review and you gave me SO MUCH HOPE! I know my tattoo is huge, and the colors are bright and the black ink is intense, and I'm not expecting a miracle. But if I manage to get this tattoo faded enough, then I'll get a great cover up.

That's all for today guys, thank you for your support :)

Guys!!

I haven't post anything for almost 3 months, and that's because juste as I told everyone in my first post, I had to go to Mexico to do some work on the field for my Master's degree.
Well, I only have good news so far!
I'll be back home (Paris) on the 29th of April, and I already booked at the laser center for my 3rd Pico treatment on May the 22nd. I couldn't book any earlier because my doctor only works on fridays and 1st and 8th of may are holidays in France and they had no space on the 15th.
Let me first say that this journey to Mexico cheered me up like crazy, I did not even think one second about my tattoo, even if I would have loved to go to the beach but as I already had 2 treatments it started to fade away and looks weird and even though I don't feel depressed at all because of it I still don't feel like I can show it off on the beach, but still, I am feeling great for the moment and I do hope nothing will get me down as I get back to France.
Maybe the only thing that worries me a bit is that summer is coming, temperatures are gonna rise and it's gonna be hard for me not to wear shorts or skirts and I'll have to find something to say to my family in order to avoid going to the coast and that's probably gonna be the worst part of this whole summer but anyway!

Also, I don't have much time to spend on crying for this tattoo since I have a thesis to write and finish for the 12th of June, and there's no way I'm doing/thinking about something else for the moment!

I forgot to add that I found an awesome tattooist downtown Mexico, and I am starting to get kind of a full traditional and colorful sleeve on my right arm and I am absolutely loving it. That's probably also helping on the tattoo removal process. You know when I started to get very depressed about my thigh tattoo, I also started to tell myself 'ho, maybe all the choices you've made so far according to tattoos are also crap and you screwed yourself', but actually I think that's my story, and I can't change it. I am starting to accept myself again and being proud of who I am, I know I'm not a fool person, and most important of all, I am starting to see my body as a great canvas, that can be modified in order to create something really beautiful and even greater each time.
Tattoos are said to be for ever, but with this removal process I am kind of understanding that even tattoos can be modified, just as an incredible painting. And that's my idea: getting pieces of art all over my body and all the tattoos that I did when I was too young are probably not a fatality and can certainly be enhanced.

That's all for the moment folks!!

I'll post something new as soon as I get my 3rd Pico treatment. Moreover, I can definitely say that I am starting to strongly believe in laser treatments as I could definitely see it fading away even 3 months after my second treatment I and feel it's really encouraging!!

Thank ya all for the support, WE CAN DO THIS!

PD: have you heard about this soon to be on the market tattoo removal pomade inventend by a Canadian or something like this? Does anybody knows if it's a hoax?? That would make many of us save a huuuuuge amount of money.. But who knows if that's true or not..

So, since some of you asked me to post some pictures of my new arm tattoos, I am going to please you guys :) I have this fan tattoo as a memory of my love for Mexico (I know this country since I am 9, and go there almost every year, and speak an almost perfect Mexican Spanish that makes me feel very proud haha), with a pyramid and a cactus (thos two symbols where chosen by my tattooist and I think it's very original and funny!). Then you have this biiiiiig traditional and colorful rose on my shoulder, which has no meaning to me, I just really liked the roses my tattooist does, and thought it would perfectly match my other projects. Then you have the small pink, red, black and yellow Mexican heart, which I love!! And finally you have my perfume bottle (done for one of my grandmothers), I think it's the prettiest, it's even prettier than I imagined before getting it on my skin!

That's all for the moment guys, I will get my 3rd Pico treatment on the 22nd of May, and will keep you updated for sure. I have many tattoo ideas in mind, and probably a good idea to get my thigh covered up nicely when I am done with the removal process... But for now I am waiting, I have a thesis to write :)

Tell me what you think about my new tattoos!

See you!

Louise