About 25 years ago I walked into a crappy tattoo shop while we were on vacation down at the Jersey Shore and got my very first tattoo. At the time, I was pretty stoked about that tattoo until I got my second one a year later.
What I realized that second time was that my first tattoo was pretty crappy. The tattoo artist (if you can call him an artist), did a really horrible job on my tattoo. I asked him for a very detailed leopard paw print and had him ink it on my left calf. It was supposed to be about 4″ in diameter but ended up only being 2 1/2″ in size.
Over the years, that crappy tattoo got even uglier. It has faded and lost a lot of it’s color and I just hate it! I try to cover it up with Derma Blend when I wear shorts and skirts as I don’t like other people seeing it. I do have 4 other tattoos that I absolutely love…but that first one, well…it totally stinks!
My aunt lives in Texas, so I have been thinking about tattoo removal in Austin, since she knows a really good tattoo laser clinic there. She told me that several of her friends had some of their tattoos removed via the laser procedure and got good results with it. Have any of you ever had a tattoo removed via the laser? If so, what kind of results did you get?
I think I am definitely going to try it and if it works, I will be extremely happy to have that crappy tattoo gone. Once I get that taken care of, I want to get a new tattoo across my upper back with my little grand daughters name on it. I am thinking about a tinker bell or a princess fairy for that since Gia loves those two things.
So ladies, if you have tried the laser tattoo removal procedure, I would love to hear all about it. Please leave me your comments and feedback below. Thanks!!!
I think you should just get a cover up tat. You wont even know the first tat was ever there. Its amazing what a good artist can do.
Thanks ladies! Perhaps that is what I will do. It would probably hurt less and cost less to just get a new tattoo over it. I can’t believe that artist even calls himself an artist as that ink job is just terrible and I have lived with it for 23 years now! ugh
I hear it hurts really bad. I watched it on tv one time and they say it can take multiple times to get rid of them.
Have you thought about going to someone and getting a new tatoo to put over that one to hide it. I watched on LA ink they just drew a new tatoo over the old one and you can barely if at all see it once they are done.
Either way I wish you luck! I don’t have any tatoo’s my sister does though. They look so painful lol so I am scared to get one!
you should do it but i hear it hurts a lot more than getting a tattoo. i happen to also live in austin & know a lot of dermatologists here who do laser stuff. i have never had any laser but am considering it for some age spots. good luck!