1. Home
  2. carpet
  3. How to erase a failed tattoo or that we no longer assume

How to erase a failed tattoo or that we no longer assume

It took you two long years before you start or you did it on a whim: your tattoo, you were doing it, but that was before.Today you can no longer bear it: good news, it is possible to erase an annoying tattoo.

Publicité

The guy who tattooed for 20 euros in a van Crados did anything, you got the first name of your now ex, a phallus, a picky joke or a sentence in a language that you do not control, and lackLuckily she makes no sense (like singer Ariana Grande, who wanted to be tattooed the name of her album 7 rings in Japanese and who returned home with the word "barbecue" engraved in the palm of the hand): you have the choice between erase your drawing or cover it.We explain to you how.

Are tank creams effective?

On the internet, sellers promise to overcome an unsightly tattoo with a cream.Their arguments: you could retake yourself at home and above all, the method would be painless and cheaper than laser treatment.

In 2015, a Canadian medical student, Alec Falkenham, announced that he had designed a very efficient and painless cream to erase permanent tattoos.It is clear that the promised revolution did not take place.

Reality is that there is no Safe cream to date to remove a tattoo.At best, the product is ineffective.At worst, the cream can burn your skin (enough to hide your tattoo under a blistering carpet).To avoid !

Remove your laser tattoo

As much to be honest immediately: to remove a tattoo is painful is long (from several months to two years) and it costs expensive (between 100 euros and 450 euros per session).Note that red and black inks are the easiest to erase.

The tank, practiced by a dermatologist or an aesthetic doctor, consists in "breaking the ink molecules" under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under the skin under.The ink is then evacuated by the body.

The laser Q Switch Nanoseconde -Yag, KTP or Alexandrite- is the most used: it is cheaper than the picosecond laser but it requires more sessions.And these are spaced at least two months (time to let the skin get rid of crusts and heal).

The picosecond laser allows you to do a session every month and remove blue, green and yellow, unlike the laser Q Switch.

Unfortunately, all tattoos cannot be faded or erased, in particular large pieces, deep tattoos and white ink tattoos which are extremely complicated to remove.Besides, dermatologists can refuse to treat you because it could be too painful for you.

Comment effacer un tatouage raté ou qu'on n'assume plus

On the other hand, laser tattooing can expose to some risks: burns, depigmentation (the YAG laser is most suitable for black skin), scars, etc..

According to Le Parisien, the global retail market, which has become a real business, weighed nearly 10 billion euros in 2016.A figure that was to increase, because in 2018, 18% of French people were tattooed, according to France Info.Among these people, 120.000 have erased at least one tattoo.

Cover your tattoo with ... another tattoo

This solution to get rid of a tattoo is more economical than tank and is suitable for resistant tattoos.The new tattoo will necessarily be larger than the previous one.

He will have to integrate into the old one, so that the latter can be covered correctly.It will therefore be necessary to discuss the possible reasons with the tattoo artist, who will necessarily be good advice, and sometimes make compromises.It may also be necessary to do one or a few laser sessions to blur your old drawing.

But you can also be self -mockery and assume your tattoo fail, like this holder of a little resembling Pikachu tattoo:

But be careful not to do like Ariana Grande (still she): by wanting to correct her error, she was wrong again.Indeed, the word "barbecue" has not really disappeared from the palm of the popstar, where we can now read "Japanese barbecue finger".Fortunately for her, the tattoos carried out on the palm of the hand are not resistant.

The opportunity to have one of his hideous tattoos removed, if you have one (we don't judge you, it's for your good, we love it so much that we have compiled the worst tattoos here.Johnny special selection here):

Make a henna tattoo disappear

The henna tattoo (or Mehndï) is ephemeral.The drawings made with this natural coloring disappear in a minimum month and it depends on the quality of the mixture, the exposure time, etc..If really, you can't wait for the tattoo to go alone: know that the henna does not support scrubs.

TO READ

• the top 7 tattoos that we get out

• The guide to male genital piercing (or the art of decorating your family jewelry)

• 15 small tattoos to decorate your body discreetly

• Original tattoos: 15 inspirations to dress your skin