Made a painful mistake? Here's how to remove your tattoo

It's an embarrassing story: when I was 18, it seemed like a fantastic plan to get a tattoo. At that moment, I was completely behind the design of the tattoo artist, I was over the moon and couldn't stop looking at the image that I would carry with me permanently. Now, 15 years later, I think differently about it.

Fortunately, there are various solutions available nowadays. For example, you can have a new tattoo placed over the old one to mask it, but I chose a different option: laser removal.

During the first appointment, it is explained in detail what aftercare and pre-care you need to consider. Based on the characteristics of your tattoo, an indication is given of how many treatments will be necessary. This is influenced by the color, size, and thickness of the lines. Strangely enough, it turns out to be more difficult to laser away the (now super popular) minimalist tattoos with thin lines than a piece that consists of thick black lines.

On average, a treatment lasts ten minutes and seven to ten treatments are needed for your tattoo to be completely gone. After three treatments, you can already see the lines becoming noticeably lighter. Unfortunately, that is also the moment when the treatments start to hurt even more. Because as fantastic as all this sounds, lasering a tattoo hurts about ten times more than getting one.

Besides the pain, the price tag is also a significant disappointment. For treating a small tattoo, you already pay €110 per session. You don't have to be a math genius to realize that it's cheaper to think a few more times before getting a tattoo...