Why does eyebrow removal take more than one session?

Have you ever tried to remove pen ink from paper with an eraser? You know it takes more than one pass, and you have to be careful not to break the paper. The tattoo artist drew your eyebrows implanting ink to make them last for years, and your skin is as delicate as paper; we don't want to damage or scar it, so it's best to do removal through sessions; look at this way it's like taking breaks, so we can let the skin heal. We'll get that ugly tattoo of your lovely face; we just need a little patience.

When you ask your removal expert, “How many sessions do you think it will take?” You can expect the same answer, “It depends.”, which leaves you asking yourself: “Depends on what?”. This blog will focus on explaining why the number of sessions can vary from person to person.

It can depend basically on five things:

1. Skin age

a. Young skin will heal easier than mature skin. On more youthful skin, it´s possible to do several applications of saline solution in one session, minimizing the total number of sessions. On mature skin, the number of applications is limited, increasing the total number of sessions not to damage the skin.

2. Tattoo method

a. Working on hair stroke tattoos like microblading or nano strokes (as long as they are not *blown out) can produce less trauma to the skin because we will only apply the saline solution to each stroke. Tattoos like powder brows or ombre, Pixeled brows take longer because the ink is spread out through the entire brow and may have up to three layers—the less the trauma to the skin, the better.

3. Ink

a. There are several types of ink: Inorganic, Organic and a Hybrid mix of inorganic and organic. It´s easier to take out inorganic ink than organic ink. Tattoos made for over ten years might contain heavy metals, so they are the toughest tattoos to lighten out through saline solution.

4. Tattoo Depth

a. An experienced artist will know how deep to go with your tattoo, but an unskilled artist might go too deep. The deeper the tattoo, the longer it can take the ink to pull up to the surface; therefore, you might need more sessions if your tattoo was done too deep.

* A blow out is when the ink spreads out of the stroke, this normally happens through poor technic or on oily skin.