Tuesday, November 25, 2008

An Overview Of Tattoo Removal Techniques

After coming to the decision that you want to remove your tattoo you have to decide how you plan to do it. There are a few different ways for you to choose from and you have to figure out which way is right for you.

One of the most common techniques to remove a tattoo is by using a laser. The laser will help break up the ink that is imbedded in your skin so that it can be absorbed by your body. It can take a few treatments to fully get the tattoo to disappear and even then you can be left with a scar.

Another method uses a substance known as glycolic acid to help remove the tattoo. This acid, unlike the laser, is used to help bring the ink to the surface of the skin. After the ink has reached the surface it can be removed without leaving as big of a scar as the laser treatment.

Both of these methods can be expensive and can cause scarring to the tissue in and around where your tattoo was. These methods can also cost a good bit of money depending on the size of your tattoo.

This last method isn’t the actual removal of your tattoo but a cover up of your old one. Some tattoo artists are able to transform your old tattoo into something different depending on what you want your new design to look like and what your old tattoo is.

When it comes down to removing a tattoo it is very much possible in today’s world. What was once a permanent mark on your body can be taken off with special techniques used for tattoo removal. However, there is still a chance that you will carry the scar with you for the rest of your life.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Tech In Tattoo

Many people may not realize that you can design a tattoo online by going to a web site and inputting an image or choosing one that the site has available. The chosen image can then be modified or altered by the web site artist and submitted to you several times until the final design is ready.

There are many web sites that offer this service and it has become very popular with those people who value uniqueness and originality in the tattoos they have on their body. There are a lot of talented tattoo shop artists that work through the web sites offering their services to modify customer’s requests for tattoo images.

Sometimes it may be that the customer has sent in a photograph of a loved one or a favorite pet and wants a personalized tattoo image created of the photo. This is a very common request from online clients and is very easy to do by sending along a digital picture for the tattoo shop artist to work from. The tattoo image can be slowly created and modified if the client wants something in the image altered. When the tattoo image is approved by the customer it can then be sent along to the customer (if the customer is far away) or the customer can simply drop into the tattoo shop and have the tattoo image inked onto their body. This is a very common process with the aid of computers and the Internet and almost all tattoo shops use this process to create their more personalized tattoo images for clients.

By creating a tattoo online the customer is free to drop in and have the tattoo image inked on at any convenient time. Many people have started doing this as a way of saving time and making the decision of an image an easy one for them.

If there’s an image at the tattoo shop that you like you can have the tattoo artist modify it in some way for you to make it unique. Any image that you find online can be made into a tattoo by a tattoo shop artist properly skilled in this work. Some tattoo artists can only trace and tattoo from a catalog of images while others have an extreme amount of talent and can draw practically anything from scratch or from a customer’s description or request. The artists that can take a blank piece of paper and draw out exactly what a customer sees in his or her mind is the artist that will go far in any tattoo shop. This artist will be able to get work anywhere in the world with this sort of talent. It really pays to practice your art.