At one time, you made a tattoo, perpetuating thereby the name of your love, belonging to a certain circle of people, and, perhaps, simply paying tribute to fashion. But this trend has passed, interests have changed, work requires a solid look. Girls are upset, having no idea how to eliminate the permanent makeup of the eyelids, lips or eyebrows.
Mixing a tattoo is not an easy task. Once the fashion for wave tattoos took place across the United States: about 20 million Americans are now decorated with tattoos on different parts of the body. According to surveys at the moment, at least half of them want to deduce what they so frivolously pricked in their youth.
Similarly, this issue has become relevant in Italy. There, too, the fashion for a tattoo passed, and in return there came a wave of disappointments and the need to get rid of the results of the noisy fashionable hobby. The surgeons who are engaged in plastic surgery do not have a rebound from clients who are concerned about the question: how to reduce a tattoo? So the famous professor Bayocco from Rome says that there was no similar excitement to remove tattoos in Italy.
There are several methods to eliminate tattoos.
Coagulation method - removal of a tattoo by electric current, laser beam or plasma by burning the skin (its surface) together with a pattern. After burning, a crust forms, which will fall off after an average of 20 days.
There is also a mechanical method. It is not very different from the previous one. Here, the surgeon cuts a layer on the surface of the skin with a cutter. Droplets of paint are carefully removed. The method is quite painful, since it is difficult to reduce a tattoo.
Laser bleaching is very popular abroad, as well as the technique in which the skin is transplanted to those areas where the tattoo is located.
Let us dwell on the mechanical method in more detail, because it is the most common in our country.
The method itself is based on the fact that the coloring material penetrates the layer under the skin, but is located above the sebaceous glands and hair follicles. Thus, when removing the tattoos, the skin area can be further restored by regeneration of those parts that do not contain a coloring substance.
After the tattoo was reduced, treatment of the wound surface is necessary, the dimensions of which are directly related to the area of the picture, the depth of the dye, the thickness of the skin in the place where the procedure will be performed, the age and gender of the client.
The skin layer is due to the gender and age of the person. Children and women have thinner skin than men. Typically, the thickness is 0.5-4 mm, and mainly depends on the size of the dermis. The dermal layer is relatively less pronounced on the face, but more visible on the back and hips. The epidermis is approximately 0.07-0.12 mm.
The depth penetrated to apply a tattoo is due to the pigment. For example, the mascara lies especially deeply, and the pigment of burnt rubber penetrates less thoroughly. Paint can not often penetrate the fatty layer (under the skin), and even more rarely - into the epidermis zone. To choose a method for treating wounds after removing the tattoos, it is necessary to determine the penetration depth of the dye. Therefore, before you understand how to reduce a tattoo, you need to decide how it was done.
The age of the client is an equally important factor that affects the volume and indications of the intervention. The body of elderly patients has a lower recovery ability than, for example, the younger generation. For this reason, the first group of clients at a time remove small areas of the tattoo (up to 200 cm2).
There is another feature. When removing tattoos with this method, the master must additionally capture a slightly larger part of the skin. This is due to the following: if you exactly repeat the contour of the tattoo, then the scar that forms in its place will, in turn, recreate the drawing or inscription. If you want to learn how to get a tattoo at home, we hurry to warn you. It is very difficult and extremely unsafe. Of course, on the Internet you can find many ways and tips on this matter, starting with the use of vinegar, iodine and a solution of potassium permanganate and ending with cutting the upper layer of skin with a blade. However, it should be borne in mind that such methods can lead not only to the formation of an unaesthetic scar, but also to more serious complications, up to sepsis. Therefore, it is best to seek help from specialists.
Whatever method you use, a scar will still remain. It can be almost invisible white or coarse and colorful red. The process of removing the tattoo is a very painful procedure, which is often performed under local anesthesia. Also, the removal of tattoos is accompanied by the smell of blood, smoke and burning meat. Therefore, before you make yourself a “memory for life”, think it over carefully.