Nacho Sauce

I switched to a new lazer, its the Qx max. It is another Q switch lazer. It's 300$ per treatment. Hoping to fully remove my tattoo with no visible signs. Purple might be my problem.

Yeah I switched to picosure and it has not had the results like the AlexTrivantage. Then I did research on the picosure and realized it uses a wave length a lot lower than the Q switch lazers. Picosure operates at a 700 wavelength which targets greens and blues it hits black but does not penetrate deep enough to remove black. The Q-switch lazers operate at 1064 and go deep enough to remove black. And you can actually adjust the setting for different colors.

My tattoo has black, green, purple and a pinkish salmon color. The picosure only targeted my green and left the rest of my arm pretty hypopigmentated.

Now I'm going to a different place with a a Q-Max lazer.

No thanks!

Yeah I have an appointment tomorrow to get it checked out. Hopefully no scars and it's completely gone.

Green / Blue / Teal aren't resilient to laser treatments, you just won't start seeing the fading until the technician gets to a point in the tattoo where the joules is more intense. If the tattoo was all blue, you would set the machine up just for that, but I'm guessing you have black in it, so until the black has faded to a point where you adjust the "intensity" of the laser, you won't see a whole lot of progress in that section.

There are some facilities that have a "Ruby" laser, which operates at a different spectrum then most Q-Switched Nd:YAG lasers, but depending on the manufacture of the laser and the tech, the Q-switched one can be adjusted to treat those colors successfully.

What are you being told for total removal, treatment number wise?

Number wise is like 100.00 per treatment she saying can be up to 10-15 treatments. But I would need to come into the place so they can examine the tattoo rather then guessing over the phone.

I don't want a cover up thats another problem. The tattoo says "Alien" in graffiti style. It's really not offensive. But it looks great, I don't want to completely take a chance to turn a good tattoo into a scar or a green/purple bruise looking effect. I'm about to flip a coin. It could be removed completely or it could turn into disaster is what i'm thinking.

The problem is will it be completely gone? I have green and purple in my piece and I keep reading those are the most difficult colors.

I'm having this same dilemma. I was 18 years old and in party mode. Got a huge graffiti piece on my arm. Extremely noticeable especially while working which is annoying. I can feel people judging me to the point where It drives me insane. So I've thought about removal, but what i'm reading is that purple and green are very difficult and sometimes it will never go away. My tattoo is black outlined lettering and shaded purple. Then the background is green, i'm 22 years old and so far it's not even faded at all from sun exposure. I'm really thinking it can't be removed.

Not sure what to do.... I might be forced into keeping it forever.... Yikes I should have thought for the long run of career wise. I've been turned down at jobs because my graffiti looks gang related but really it's just art graffiti not gang related at all. Such a hard decision on what to do. I should have got it on my back or something where it's not noticeable.