When you engulf yourself in a world that is beyond your character it's easy to become another version of yourself. This version may be a prototype that many people don't understand or worse...don't approve of. A year or so ago I surrounded myself within the tattoo industry and may have made some skin deep permanent decisions that unfortunately I can't take back....until now.
I came across an advertisement in a Cosmopolitan magazine offering this new merchandise that I had been kept in the dark about. The product is called Wrecking Balm, it's a way to try to remove the permanent inked skin without the use of laser surgery. It is relatively inexpensive ranging around $50 dollars for their 9 week product and you can typically find it in the pharmacy area of your local drug store/Wal Mart.
Naturally I'm immediately interested because i have one tattoo mainly that I would like to see disappear for good without having to torture myself with 12+ sessions of laser treatment. The product promises to be effective and offers a 60 day money back guarantee. Unfortunately the logics behind it is that it takes longer than 60 days to see any real improvement or results of the tattoo disappearing act.
I've only been using the product for a week and I must say, it's difficult already. My tattoo is a little larger than the palm of my hand and lies beneath my neck and around my upper back. What it is basically is the opposite of the way tattoo aftercare is when you first get your tattoo. It's a very abrasive technique that involves slowly buffing away the layers of skin until you reach the layer the tattoo is lying on. Then once you reach that layer of skin the product buffs out what's left of the tattoo while at the same time your body regenerates to create new layers of skin as it heals itself.
It's a lubricated sand-buffer that so far is without a doubt slowly taking away layers of skin off my back. What I've been trying to keep in mind too is that everyone has different elasticity with their skin and different skin toughness, therefore it could take 9 weeks for the product to "fade" my tattoo or it could take longer.
With the support of my family and friends I will be taking this product with me till the end or until I run out of the abrasive cream... I'm hoping for some sort of result, if it doesn't fade it all the way I'd be satisfied with it fading my tattoo enough so that laser surgery will be more tolerable. I'm not taking laser surgery completely out of the picture but I am hoping the product will fade the tattoo enough so that it is either A. no longer visible or B. easier for the laser surgery to handle.
Wish me luck everyone, I'll gradually keep you updated as well!
I have a tattoo in the same exact spot. When I was 17, I went to a tattoo party at my sister's house, and since she got a free tattoo if a certain number of other people paid for theirs, she nagged me to get one. I'm sad to say that I succumbed to peer pressure for the first and only time in my life, and I got a tattoo. I was pretty into the solar system at the time and so I picked my favorite painting of the solar system and asked the tattoo "artist" to tattoo that on my back. Since you can't really see that area of your body without straining your neck to look at it in a mirror, I was really unaware of how BAD it turned out. People would see it and ask: "What is ?" or "Is that a connect the dot drawing?" So when I was 23, my boyfriend at the time paid for me to have it covered up. I picked a really colorful, girly arrangement of gladiolas (my fav) with a humming bird (my late gram's favorite bird) buzzing around. I guess it's pretty, and it covered the crappy tattoo well enough, but all in all, I wish I didn't have a tattoo at all.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could try a product like that, but I do not believe that a cream would even half-way remove it. And I guess because of the size of it and location of it, I'd rather have a colorful something there rather than a scarred patch of skin.
Stick with it, though, and don't forget to let us know how it turns out!
Good luck with getting rid of your tattoo! That product sounds kind of interesting, is it uncomfortable to use? I don't have any tattoos, but I know people who do, and this is something they might want to look into if they decide to remove any. Laser surgery just seems like it would be too painful.
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