Tattoo Removal & Fading

Calgary’s Tattoo Removal Specialists

Tribal Expression has now been doing Tattoo Removal and Tattoo Fading since 2013. The main reason we got into tattoo removal is to allow clients to have great quality cover-ups done.

A lot of medical tattoo removal clinics are excellent at their craft, however, few medical centers have worked closely with tattoo artists, enthusiasts and the medical community. We have seen so many tattoos and completed so many successful tattoo removals, we can decipher the inks and methods used, to tailor a removal process to you, offering the best ink fade for your skin type.

If you look at it this way, the only thing that can cover a black tattoo (or darker) is a black tattoo, so if you have a larger black or darker piece, you will need to get a larger darker piece to cover it up, as well as your old tattoo will determine the shape of your new tattoo.

Well, not anymore, our high-quality Q switching laser YAG can fade that dark tattoo and allow for an easy cover-up.

Tribal Expression also offers a program to remove gang or hate tattoos at no cost. We know this can be such a huge barrier, especially when seeking out employment or during recovery. Please reach out to our team to get more information.

We feel that one of our greatest tattoo removal assets is our knowledge of the application of tattoos. We have been in the piercing/tattooing business for 19+yrs. In this time, we have gained vast expertise in the application of tattoos. We have observed the tools changing and the inks changing; this has allowed us to give a better quote and properly adjust our lasers for the exact skin condition and tattoo. By knowing the era of when the tattoo was done, allows us to know what tattoo pigment was available in the tattooing industry at that time. The tattooing and industry experience we have would be unmatched by any laser clinic.

In most laser clinics, the staff get 2-3 days of training on the cosmetic laser, many of these days are spent on doing laser photo facials. In this time frame, how can they gain 19+yrs of experience?? They can’t, of course. Here at Tribal, we do not do any other laser services, nor do our lasers do anything but remove and fade tattoos.

Since this is not our primary source of business, so we can offer this service to our clients at a considerably lesser price than our competitors.

At Tribal, we always offer free, NO obligation quotes. Please call the studio to book a free consultation.

Age of the tattoo? (this can tell us the type of tattoo pigment used in that era, allowing us to make a better quote)

Professionally done or amateur? (depth and pro ink or amateur)

Colour of the tattoo: Black and dark tattoos generally will fade in less time, whereas sky blue and light greens, etc. are more time-consuming to remove.

Location of the tattoo: The area and the type of skin type can factor in the removal process.

Tattoos consist of thousands of particles of tattoo pigment suspended in the skin. While average human growth and healing processes will remove small foreign particles from the skin, tattoo pigment particles are permanent because they are too big to be removed. Laser treatment causes tattoo pigment particles to fragment into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces are then removed by normal body processes.

Destruction of tattoo pigments depends a few factors:

The colour of the light must penetrate sufficiently deep into the skin to reach the tattoo pigment.

The colour of the laser light must be more highly absorbed by the tattoo pigment than the surrounding skin. Different tattoo pigments, therefore, require different laser colours. For example, red light is highly absorbed by green tattoo pigments.

For more information please book an appointment.

Tattoo removal is priced by the session, and every quote can be different. Our minimum charge is $60.00, and the average removal is around $160.00 – $300.00 per session.

We do offer packages, and they cost less, give us a call to find out more.

This is also not our primary source of business, and we provide this service for our clients at a considerably lower price than our competitors.

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of meeting a ton of fantastic people. Each person has their own story, and a majority of those people come to see us when trying to change a part of their lives. I have become friends with a few of these people, and not receiving help has caused some to pass away before their time. Often due to our major drug pandemic. This has caused me to alter my way of thinking…

  • If you are trying to change your life and getting the tattoos off your face is part of it, we want to help. 
  • Most individuals that have facial tattoos can have trouble finding a job, so how do you afford to get a facial tattoo removal? Let alone earning enough money to get multiple treatments and fulfill your everyday needs?
  • If you still have the tattoos and want to change, even if you manage to get out of that lifestyle, the tattoos say, “you’re not.”.
  • If you want to change your life, why would I not help you? Of course, we will! We have personally seen the benefits of the program for people coming out of jail, treatment centers, and the streets.

If you or someone you know qualify, please call the shop for an appointment; all that we ask is for your story when we are done.

Tribal’s Q-switched 532nm lasers.

This laser creates a green light which is highly absorbed by red and orange targets. Useful primarily for red and orange tattoo pigments, this wavelength is also highly absorbed by melanin (the chemical which gives skin colour or tan), which makes the laser wavelength effective for age spot or sun spot removal.

Tribal’s Q-switched Nd:YAG: 1064 nm.

This laser creates a near-infrared light (invisible to humans), which is poorly absorbed by melanin, making this the only laser suitable for darker skin. This laser wavelength is also absorbed by all dark tattoo pigments. It is the safest wavelength to use on the tissue, due to the low melanin absorption and low hemoglobin absorption. This is the wavelength of choice for tattoo removal in darker skin types.

Once you have a dark coloured tattoo, the only thing that will cover it is a darker tattoo and a larger tattoo.

We’re a lot of the problem lies with tattoo removal is a lot of tattoos are either already black or are large & the client does not want to tattoo darker and larger.

The alternative to this can be tattoo fading, this allows us to treat the tattoo only two or three times. This will not remove the tattoo or necessarily make the existing tattoo look good, go it will fade the tattoo to a light gray colour to allow the tattoo artist to tattoo over top of it like it didn’t exist.

Getting laser fading done and getting a cover-up tattoo can sometimes be a cheaper option than getting a full tattoo removal, depending on the size of peace.