Using lasers to remove tattoos comes with some risks. Skin that bore the tattoo can be left lighter than surrounding skin.

Tattoos are skin and ink, but they’re a glimpse of your soul, a bare declaration of who you were or who you became at the turning of your life. For a man, a tattoo is usually a highly personal ...

Long a subspecialty of cosmetic dermatologists, laser tattoo removal has entered a more commercial era. As tattoos have become decidedly mainstream — a third of Americans now have them, according to ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Imagine having a rubber band snapped on your skin repeatedly. That’s what people say it feels like having a tattoo removed. According to the latest research, one-third of ...

From full sleeve to clean slate: Brazil’s onetime most-tattooed man is erasing his past, one laser pulse at a time. Leandro de Souza, a 36-year-old photographer from Bagé in Brazil’s southernmost ...

The photographer, 36, was once known as the most tattooed man in Brazil, having got his first inking at age 13 "It hurts a lot, no matter how much anesthesia they use, the pain is horrible," Souza ...