u/tattoo_regret

Image 1 — plateauing - advice?
Image 2 — plateauing - advice?

plateauing - advice?

for context:

- I’ve had probably 16+ treatments

- picoway for most of them, but I tried a q-switched laser twice at a new clinic. recently went to another clinic and had test patches on the saturated red parts which reacted strongly

- was a dense coverup, and quite scarred (I believe there was scarring before, but I blistered pretty bad in the beginning, esp the red so I think this caused more scarring)

- been at this since like 2019; had around 5-6 treatments in 2019, took a break during Covid, and since then have been spacing sessions out 4-6+ months apart

- would like to look into fractional laser but having a hard time finding a place that offers both. I believe the scarring is making it so the laser can’t penetrate/the ink can’t escape but idk

any advice + insight very appreciated!!

to be fair, it was extremely dense and black before so this is definitely progress, but I feel like i stopped seeing progress around the session 12. the last couple particularly look as if nothing happened.

u/tattoo_regret — 8 hours ago