Your Immune system is the Key to the Process.

Ok, stay with me here!  This is real cool stuff!  Lasers used in laser tattoo removal do not eliminate the ink.  Rather, they focus their energy in a predetermined amount at the tattoo ink, causing it to, in simplified words, overheat and explode into “bite-size” chunks.   Your immune system then goes on alert and floods the area like nifty little air scrubbers cleaning up the broken-up ink particles.  The laser setting is determined by many factors, some of which are: where you are in the process, what depth of skin you are working on, and what color(s) the tattoo is.

Give it to me Straight!

In a nutshell, the goal when treating a tattoo in the laser tattoo removal process is to appropriately target the ink with the laser by “dialing in” where that energy needs to reach the heat level you want to make the ink molecules vibrate enough to break them up.  Along with that, there are different laser wavelengths that can be used.  A wavelength is chosen because it is attracted to the color in the tattoo you are wanting to remove.

One of the things that makes Vanish Skin Aesthetics & Laser Tattoo Removal different is that we have 3 different wavelengths of lasers.  This allows us to target the entire spectrum of colors unlike most laser tattoo removal facilities that only have 1 or 2 wavelengths available.

So In Summary,,,,

So there you have it!  The laser is necessary to break up the tattoo ink enough to make it “workable,” but in the end, it’s your immune system that does the heavy lifting when it comes to laser tattoo removal.  This is also one of the many reasons that different people can have different numbers of treatments to remove a similar tattoo.  Unfortunately, it’s also one of the factors that can make it difficult to determine the number of treatments an individual will need to achieve their removal goals.

So our advice here at Vanish?  Keep that immune system boosted throughout your tattoo removal process to help maximize your sessions.