Does Laser Hair Removal Fade Tattoos?

In this short, Kaitlin Knapp, a Licensed Esthetician on the Express Med Spa clinical team, explains what happens when a hair removal laser passes over a tattoo. Because tattoo ink is dense pigment, running the laser directly over the artwork can fade it and tends to feel more painful than a normal pulse. When a client wants to keep their tattoo intact, she works around the ink and keeps the laser off it entirely.

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Video Transcript

So I have a lot of clients ask about tattoos in the area of the laser. And what I have to inform them is that if they do want me to go over that tattoo, it will fade, and it will be a little bit more painful just because there is a lot of pigment in a tattoo.

Whereas if someone does not want their tattoo to fade, all we do is just work around it and make sure we just do not touch it with the laser.

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