Do Tattoos Get Affected With Laser Hair Removal Treatments?

"Is it okay to have hair removal through laser beam treatments even with tattoos?" A common worry of aesthetic addicts regarding the conflict of tattoos, especially makeup tattoos with laser hair treatment. Well, if you consider getting a hair removal treatment via laser and have permanent tattoos on the area to be treated, then you might as well consider reading this article for beauty's sake... and for health's sake, of course.

You see, the interaction of the laser beams to your tattoos imposes risks. It is for the fact that the laser is attracted to the black pigment in your tattoo. Colored tattoos are not excused of this, they even get affected. The attraction of the laser beam and the tattoo pigment would cause an emission of excessive heat energy blasting from the beam to the dermal layers of your skin --- excessive heat energy released, more damage produced. Your tattoos may end up becoming discolored, as colored tattoos may turn to black, plus the formation of some blisters or even scars on top of your tattoo. Painful, yes! At the same time, a perfect ruin!

Your laser hair technician usually includes in the interview questions regarding existing tattoos. There is still a remedy to simply avoid the scarring, the blistering, and the ruined tattoos. Your laser hair technician will draw a large circle and put a mark, an "X", over the tattoo site with the use of a washable marker in order to avoid hitting the tattoo. But if the case does not permit an extension of even an inch for a line to be drawn and a marker to be placed, as in the case of lip liner tattoos, it would be that the hair on the upper lip cannot be treated. Well, it would then be better to leave the hair rather than having those black lip liners lying around and creating rather a big mess.

Some cases are different. For a few, mild effects happen. Hair laser treatment over tattoos would cause fading of the tattoos, leaving the spot blank and saying goodbye not only to those unwanted hair but to your money for the purchase of those tattoos. If the effect is not blistering, then surely at a seventy-five to a hundred percent, those tattoos of yours would, abracadabra!, disappear.

So if you plan to get this kind of treatment just to get rid of those unwanted hair, better be honest about all your tattoos to your laser hair technician --- may it be eyebrow liners, eyeliners, lip liners or any makeup made permanent through tattoos --- or else you'd end up looking like a clown in your ruined tattoos!

As long as you're informed, well-oriented with the expected and possible effects, then we'll have no problems at all. Just make sure you take all sides before you sign up for such procedures.

Or better if you're still planning for both procedures, getting a hair removal through laser treatment and a permanent tattoo, it would be safer to undergo the hair removal procedure first, get some recovery from the procedure then you can get yourself those tattoos that you've been dying for!