Tattoo is a mistake of youth. How to get rid of a tattoo?

Many people in youth, paying tribute to fashion or to perpetuate the name of their love, they make a tattoo on the body. Meanwhile, a tattoo is not a simple drawing; it is almost impossible to remove it at home without leaving marks and scars on the skin.

Fashion for application tattoos came to us from America and today teenage girls consider a body indescribably charming, where a butterfly, a flower, a dragon or other original drawings flaunts. But as polls of people who have a tattoo on their bodies show, half of them regret that they agreed to apply a body tattoo in their youth and want to get rid of it, so that after that the skin at the site of the tattoo would not look terrifying.

People mature age consider a tattoo a mistake of youth, which can only be done by stupid people who do not think that getting rid of a tattoo will take much more time, effort and money than applying it. Each person changes over the years, and a tattoo that seemed beautiful and creative in his youth, after 10 years becomes a drawing that has lost its relevance and attractiveness.

To understand why it is so difficult to remove a tattoo, you need to have an idea of ​​how the procedure for applying it is carried out. Tattoo parlors have a special tattoo machine, the needle of which makes punctures in the skin and injects dye particles into it. As soon as the paint particles enter the skin, the protective bodies of the body begin to actively fight the foreign substance, forming capsules of skin cells around them, which prevent further penetration of the paint into the deeper layers of tissues. Over time, paint particles become overgrown with a large layer of protective capsules, and it becomes almost impossible to remove paint from under this layer without removing the upper epidermis of the skin.

Nowadays no one no longer dares to remove tattoos by burning the top layer of the skin with iodine, tincture of celandine, chemicals, vinegar or potassium permanganate. All these methods are designed to exfoliate the layers of the skin along with the pigments of the tattoo paint, after which, of course, ugly scars, spots and scars remain on the body. In addition, self-removal of a tattoo with the help of substances that burn the skin is fraught with the risk of tissue infection and the development of allergies to the reagent. To avoid unpleasant possible complications, it is best to remove tattoos at a tattoo parlor or beauty salon. To date, the most advanced tattoo removal methods in salons are:

1. Coagulation... This method is based on burning the skin with acid, electric shock or plasma. After these operations, a crust forms at the site of the tattoo, which disappears after about 3 weeks. After removal of a tattoo by coagulation, scars and scars may remain on the skin, and therefore the advantage of this method is only the affordability of the price of the procedure.

2. Mechanical method... This method is the most popular among the population of our country. It differs from the coagulation method in that during the operation the surgeon uses a special diamond cutter to cut off the top layer of the skin along with the tattoo. This procedure is painful and is performed under local anesthesia. Whether scars remain after wound healing depends on the professionalism of the doctor and the degree to which the skin is protected from infection.

3. Laser method... Laser tattoo removal is by far the safest and most successful method. Modern ones make it possible to act not on the entire area of ​​the skin, as it was done before, but only on the coloring matter of the tattoo.

After such a selective action laser some of the paint elements evaporate, and the other part breaks down into small particles, which are eventually removed from the body without outside interference. This method of laser tattoo removal is called selective photocavitation. The disadvantage of the photocavitation method is the duration of the course of procedures. It will not be possible to completely get rid of a tattoo in one procedure, sometimes you have to visit a beauty salon for a whole year so that the drawing on the body disappears without a trace. But the laser method does not always help to completely get rid of the tattoo, its final result depends on:

On the quality of the paint. If a ballpoint or gel pen ink was used to apply the tattoo, the drawing cannot be completely removed.
- from the place of tattooing. If the drawing is located in a place where there is a lot of muscle, then the risk of scars and scars is highest.
- on the technique and depth of tattooing. The more layers of skin that are punctured, the less chance of getting rid of the tattoo completely.

Despite the fact that with selective photocavitation it is not always possible to completely remove a tattoo from the skin, today this method is the only way that makes it possible to get rid of a tattoo without leaving scars, spots and scars in its place.

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