When you are wondering how to remove a tattoo, it depends if you are wondering how to remove it yourself.  If you are in fact, looking for ways where you and only you will be involved there are some interesting, if not absurd methods.

If you have a particularly high pain tolerance or no human DNA at all, there is the option of sanding off your tattoo with, yes, sanding paper or for the ladies, a pumice stone.  This of course will leave scarring and if the neighbors are watching, a lasting impression.   Then also for those of you who haven’t been formally introduced to your nervous system there is the Magic Wand Home Tattoo Removal System where you literally burn your tattoo off with a small iron.  For the rest of you there is a trip to the local drug store where you can buy any topical tattoo removal cream and carefully follow the pain free instruction as to how to apply.

If you are curious about how to remove a tattoo professionally, there are a few ways to go about it.  You can visit a plastic surgeon to have it cut out which is highly effective if the tattoo is small enough.  Then of course there is the trusted but expensive laser removal method where you will have to go to anywhere from 5 to 25 sessions depending on the size, color and quality of the tattoo.  The sanding option can be mentioned again but done professionally it is called dermabrasion and you at least have the luxury of a local anesthetic – still not pretty.

So if you ask yourself how to remove a tattoo, think again whether you want to do it yourself or let a professional take care of it for you.