How removal actually works
Everything worth knowing before you book — the process, the laser, and what happens between sessions.
Four steps
- Send a photo. One close up, one from further back. Takes a minute.
- Get a straight answer. Your exact price, a realistic number of sessions, and anything that will be difficult.
- First session. 10–20 minutes for most tattoos.
- Come back in 4–5 weeks. Your body needs that gap to clear the broken-up ink.
What you get, every session
Your result comes from the boring part — settings, cooling, the gaps. None of it gets improvised.
Skin tone, colour and how the area responds. Never a default preset.
Day one decides how the rest of the week goes.
Change gets measured, not remembered.
Leaving Bali soon? One session still counts.
The laser doesn't remove ink — it shatters it. Your body clears the fragments over the following weeks, long after you've left. Nothing is wasted, and you can finish the course anywhere.
No treatment in between — that's what the gap alone did. A strong response, not a promise.
Some tattoos show almost nothing for the first few sessions.
Normal, and not a bad sign. You'll be told upfront if yours is likely to be one of them — so you're not wondering after session four whether it's working.
Dense black work, older ink sitting deep, and tattoos on hands, feet and lower legs can look almost unchanged after three, four, even five sessions — and then start dropping away quickly. The ink is being broken up the whole time; your body just needs longer to clear it from those areas.
The laser
Q-switched Nd:YAG
Black clears best. Red usually goes well. Green and turquoise are slow, and sometimes only lighten. You'll know which one yours is before you pay anything.
The laser fires in nanosecond pulses — short enough that the ink particle absorbs the energy and shatters while the skin around it doesn't have time to heat up. Ink breaks, skin doesn't burn. That's why pulse control matters more than the badge on the machine.
Two wavelengths, two jobs:
- 1064 nm — black and dark blue ink, and the safer choice on tanned and darker skin.
- 532 nm — red, orange and warm tones.
White and skin-tone cover-ups can darken on contact, so those always get a test spot first.
Permanent makeup
Eyebrows, lips and eyeliner.
One of the most common things people come in with — and it's your face, so it's the most careful work there is. From 1,000,000 IDR per session.
Brow and lip pigments usually contain iron oxide and titanium dioxide. Under a laser these can darken instantly — a light brown brow can turn grey or black on the first pulse, and that doesn't reverse. It's how the pigment behaves, not a mistake.
So cosmetic tattoo always starts with a small test spot somewhere discreet. Ten seconds, and we both know how your pigment reacts before anything is done across the whole brow. You won't find that out halfway through.
Who does it
Tattoo removal is what we do — not a side service in a beauty salon. Six years of it, in Berawa.
Everything else
With proper gaps between sessions and normal aftercare, scarring is rare. The risks are sessions booked too close together, sun on a treated area, and scabs picked off before they're ready.
Frosting — the area goes white — right after the session, then redness and swelling for one to three days. No water on it until it's healed.
A tan is fine. Sunburn is the hard stop. Tanned and darker skin just gets adjusted settings. Burnt or peeling skin means the session is postponed — a wasted trip for both of us.
Ocean, pool and rice-field water are off limits while the area is healing, and keep it out of the sun between sessions. Exact timings are on the aftercare page.
Yes. Lightening for a cover-up usually takes 2 to 4 sessions and costs noticeably less than full removal. Tell your tattoo artist you're planning it — they'll want to know before they design the new piece.
A 500,000 IDR deposit holds your booking and comes off the price of the session. The rest is paid after. Nothing is paid upfront for a full course.
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