In order to answer the question, “How Much Does Laser Tattoo Removal Cost?”, you have to look at a number of different factors. There is no one size fits all answer. The reason for this is that the cost of laser tattoo removal is dependent on how much treatments are involved, and to a certain extent, the amount of needle pulses per treatment. But to get to this magical number of how many treatments it will take to a remove a tattoo – there is where you have to get into the specifics of the tattoo question.

Since that’s impossible to do so, we’ll take a look in the other direction. How would a laser tattoo removal clinic explain their pricing structure? Probably something like this.

The total cost of tattoo removal depends on the number of laser treatments used to remove the tattoo.

The number of laser treatments used to remove the tattoo depends on these factors:

1. The size of the tattoo.
2. The age of the tatoo.
3. The depth of the tattoo ink into the skin.
4. The amount of color in the tattoo.

Let’s work backwards here and address these points one by one.

More color in a tattoo translates to more laser treatments. Even the colors themselves react different to the lasers, with some being more “stubborn” than others. Additionally, huge solid black tattoos versus a thin outline logically translates to more laser treatments.

Now this next one relates to how deep the ink is in the skin. If your tattoo was done professionally, this is going to be a uniform depth. But if it was done amateurly or otherwise by a bad tattoo artist, it could be deeper into the skin that it should be. This makes it harder for the laser tattoo removal specialist to their job. obviously this effects the price.

The age of the tattoo is a tricky one. You might think newer tattoos are harder to remove than an old faded tattoo. Actually, older tattoos tend to be harder to remove because the ink has had more time to “settle” into the body.

Lastly, let’s look at the size of the tattoo and how this relates to the price. Obviously, the bigger a tattoo, the more it’s going to cost to have it removed. How this breaks down into actual dollars depends on the laser remvoal clinic. Some clinics may take the tattoo and divide the laser treatments into sections, each one targeting X amount of inches of the tattoo. The bill may then be structured in the same way, with fees according to X amount of inches being treated.

As you can see, it’s very hard to estimate with any certainty how much it will cost to have your tattoo removed without consulting with a clinic and having someone take into consideration your specific tattoo. The only general pricing rule of thumb is that individual laser treatments treatments usually cost a couple hundred dollars, and most tattoos are removed within 5-10 treatments. This reflects the fact that “most tattoos” are only a couple inches in size.