The "repentant" tattoo are more and more numerous. "We treat at least five a day in our clinic", abounds Dr. Jean Marc Adda, aesthetic doctor.

Tattoos of sixty "eightards" whose morphology has evolved ... (when you enlarge the tattoo spreads, when you lose weight the drawing wrinkles!), Young people who realize that in their future job this tattoo would be bad, first name of an ex ... the causes are multiple.

For the body: the RevLite laser

This laser "taps" on the ink (like a tiny jackhammer) to unclog the pigments. The smaller fragments pass into the circulation and are digested by white blood cells. The biggest are weakened and will also be eliminated as and when sessions. The results are more or less fast depending on the ink: blue and green are the most resistant. The easiest to erase are the black inks and those of tattoos that date back ten years and whose pigments are gradually weakened.

"In 90% of cases we no longer see a tattoo," says Dr. Jean Marc Adda. In 10% of cases can distinguish a residual shade on the skin. The only worries to be feared are the problems of healing (possibility of keloid scars) which do not depend on the gesture of the practitioner but of each person. Dark, black or mixed skin can also benefit from RevLite laser tattoo removal.

How to use: we avoid the sun on the drawing one month before and one month after the intervention. Two hours before the session, the tattoo is covered with a thick layer of anesthetic ointment before wrapping a plastic microfilm or cellophane for a perfect occlusion of the anesthetic. It takes about 5 minutes to erase 10 centimeters of drawing. It is hardly painful, except on the bony areas (the shock wave of the laser bangs a little on the bone but it is very bearable). After the session, the treated area is coated with a good layer of Vaseline twice a day. We wait a month and a half to two months before starting a new session. It takes an average of ten to remove all traces of tattooing. And if you have just been tattooed and are dissatisfied with the result, it will take almost six months for the healing to be done and that it can be erased.

Price: about 120 € the session.

For the face: corrective pigments

"Women often complain about the color of their semi-permanent make-up ," says Maud Ravier, a pioneer of this technique she has been practicing for over 18 years, some pigments turn orange or pink on the eyebrows, brown or gray on the contour of the lips and sometimes the line of eyeliner becomes irregular.It must be known that the mineral pigments, too often used, turn over time.This is the reason why I use stable organic pigments lasting more than 18 months versus four to six months for minerals. "

How to use: To catch up with too thick or too dark eyebrows, Maud mixes pigments with a beige / blond tone and lighten them with her dermograph by drawing light hairs in the middle of the dark eyebrows that can harden the skin. face. It takes about 50% of "hair" blonde to find a natural result. For a crumbling or gloomy eyeliner, Maud uses the pixel technique by stitching small beige beige dots (such as a concealer to correct the line). If a mouth contour is too brown (it was trendy 10 years ago), or it turned gray because of bad pigments, we benefit from a clever mix of a pigment called "Papaya" and titanium oxide that covers it and at the same time gives a light shot on the mouth.

At the first session, Maud corrects the flaws. If necessary, we come back a second time to correct small imperfections.

Price: between 350 and 500 € depending on the area treated, retouching to three weeks included.