Tattoo Removal

The approximate coverage we can treat in 30mins is 40cm x 40cm . this is approximately, a forearm tattoo, or 1/3 of a back piece. A 10min session, is enough to cover an area 6cm x 6cm.

This treatment, is very painful, in fact many people say it is 2-3 times worse than getting the tattoo. However, Laser HRH happily supplies numbing cream FREE of charge to help minimise the discomfort. Please allow a minimum of 2hrs for this to take its full effect on the area. Please advise Laser HRH or your technician prior to your appointment if you wish to make use of the cream but have run out, or were not supplied it at the consult.

3-5 treatments are required to fade the tattoo and 6-10 to remove it completely. Your technician will be able to estimate the expected treatments required at the consult, but will have a much better idea when you return after your first treatment. This is because there are so many different tattoo pigments out on the market today, approximately 10,000 here in Australia. All of which have their own unique chemical composition, including heavy metals, and its these heavy metals which plays a large factor in determining how difficult a tattoo can be to remove. Other factors include, the depth at which the artist has applied the ink, the number of "touch-ups" the tattoo has had, the number of different colours, if you use the numbing cream correctly, just to name a few, but these will all influence the estimation given by your technician at the consult.

Each time the laser is fired you will here a “tick” sound as the laser’s light is absorbed by the ink in the tattoo & consequently heated. Following the treatment, the ink is then absorbed by the body, & flushed out of the body via the kidneys & then urine. Typically 3-5 sessions are required, but several variables will effect this, with approximately 45 days required between each treatment. Here at Laser HRH when we remove a tattoo with our Q-switched Nd-yag laser, which has a pulse width measured in picoseconds, it can cause clients some discomfort. We do supply numbing cream at no cost, which we suggest that all clients make use of. The cream takes approx 2hours to start to take effect so, this is why we give you the cream at the consult, so you can apply this at home, before your session.