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Asking a Tattoo Removal Expert Our Burning Questions

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0:00 there were times where I'd be lasering someone's down there and even I'm like I can't see the clip like I don't know where it is the H the ████ is the guy going to find it thank [Music] you so it's not every day that we have a guest with us that is an expert at tattoo removal Nick take it off you I've been uh under apprenticeship for a couple years now really is it laser what's it like what what's your device that you use um it's like it's kind of like a pencil uh it's hooked up to a a big old machine it's a laser and and what's the name what's the model name of that like pencil what what do you call that I you know what I don't know it's I think it's like the brand name is like action stylist or something like that action sty what is it P P away yeah but now to

0:51 start off I'm mostly doing like but holes and oh but holes how many clients you get per day on average I'm still under study so about like two to three two to three and what's the cost of a removal standard like 75 75 bucks that's it okay for 30 minute session yeah does it smell the burning hair yeah it smells how close is he on any of these answers people say the butle people say the but hole doesn't hurt none all these are way off pretty much what's the name of the thing P away okay that's one and then uh no help at all by the way how many clients per day do you normally have uh depending on the size of the tattoos um could range from like five to up to like 15 damn that's a lot higher than I thought that's a lot of people with regret huh the Clin I work at is like the second busiest in Australia wow how long does it take to remove a tattoo now

1:41 completely yeah does it take multiple years 2 years years can I guess what the common thing is okay names yeah names of their partner ex ex's names ex's names are number one I dated a girl who had a big ████ stamp of her ex's name and I really like doing style but I didn't like doing ████ style cuz I like to I the name is showing so I see sha see Sean every time well is there a sea that you like that you could think of like sha Mendes yeah but it was just this say Shan Sean conry yeah you could think it's Shan Shan pen oh Sean Pen's good Shan bean I get a blanket and I cover that part yeah but the blanket says Sean on it

2:31 embroidered in yeah it's embroidered so what's the average cost per like Bill of each person that's like how off was he 75 bucks that is that sounds pretty cheap huh hundreds of thousands thousands yeah we do more hundreds true oh okay so 75 is a hookup have you ever had a parent that that got a strange to his child cuz then they're like I don't like this kid no more ████ laser it off oh yeah that kid name is anyone getting their kids name off or children oh okay like I have and am removing kids names because the mom then had another kid which she didn't think she was going to so then doesn't fit into like what she's got already mhm of her so she's removing it to get like to put three kids on or something yeah elsewhere wow

3:22 has there ever been a moment where you couldn't help but visibly laugh at how bad someone's tattoo was no you're that professional it doesn't even make you smile I would laugh I would have taken a picture and laugh you can read the client some clients already laughing about it then I laugh with them to make them feel comfortable cuz if they're laughing and I'm dead face and that's weird but a lot of them will come in or they could be like they could be crying depress whatever may be then yeah oh you have to be a little sensitive to that yeah cuz we get tattoos from um cancer patients so you have to get a radiation dot so we can laser that um to yeah like people drunk just tatting each other to ex names to accidents to some of them could be um yeah some of them just didn't even want to tattoo like an ex partner abuse

4:12 like force them to get their names there's a lot of there is a there's a whole branch of like reasons and some are really really sad that's Sean dude ████ Sean so after doing youring you brand someone you're now the person that trains other people to do this right so you travel around and you train yes have you ever had someone that you train that you're just like I don't think she's ever I've definitely not pass a lot of people so it's over their dream is done yeah done done so bad how Al so you're a laser instructor yes you can say that how what what would be a failure like how are they performing that you're like knowing it's just the understanding of the skin so you have to have like a beauty background and understand the skin and how the tattoo ink actually works some people just can't wrap their head around it is it because they're too stupid and because it is a medical device yeah they

5:04 just can't connect the dots no matter what even on the skin they can't connect the do yeah they just pretty much they just can't and there's like settings as well they end up with more tattoo on them what the I moved it from here to there I do what you told me you can blister people and you can permanently scar people you don't have the correct settings oh wow wow wow and the energy of the laser so the laser that we use has no heat oh so it's the old school Las does it hurt then or still HT still hurts but it doesn't burn you so what exactly is it doing still cause damage so it uses a sound wave it pressurizes and actually shatters the ink so now the ink particles can be eaten Away by your body through your liver so your liver is already detoxing toxins on a daily basis so it's going to read those little broken particles as toxins so just get rid of it so the healthier you are the

5:55 quicker it's going to fade it goes like this and or it sucks it in and you might not see the difference right now but maybe in 3 days it really fad yeah like in a few weeks time it will suddenly start getting F like lighter and lighter some areas that and then your liver blasted it's got to sleep in Old English damn this whole time I thought it just ████ went and it burned it and then the skin Las like 20 years ago yes so this new way of doing it is the cleanest possible best way yeah and then what's your failure rate for like out of the many times that you've tried to get people to pass this thing what's the percentage of people that don't make it through you is it about like half like half of them are F less than half less than half well did they go she's a hard teacher I'll go to a easy teacher and then there's always that one teacher that's like yeah you got it is there is there

6:45 is that it's hard to do that because we're the biggest company in the world oh there's no other like Standalone T removal right so if they don't pass with you then they know that they didn't pass with the company yes cuz your company companies pretty much like there's like one or two small standon only ones here and there like very small but like we're the biggest right now does your company own that procedure where other places can't do it the exact same way no other people can as well but the machine like we've got yeah the newest machine and it's ████ expensive how much how much it cost how much cost I think it's be than a qu mil a qu mil for the are expensive how did you how did you get how did you get into the game of removing tattoos it was just the next new thing cuz I was doing laser hair removal so I've seen butth holes DX

7:35 vaginas for like seven years of my life I've seen everything I'm face that's why I don't care if I see anything on my face is just whatever at this point um and the next thing um and guess you have a dick in there I probably haven't seen as much vinas as Anthony I mean come on oh well that's true no gynecologist on this Earth true most true statement I've ever heard you know for some reason when she says it like that it's such a nice compliment it actually sounds I say the same thing to you but you get mad at me compliment it's just different for some reason I'm that's all I'm saying cuz when Steve calls you a ████ H ████ never heard that I don't think I don't think he ever said that ████ owner so he has one he's a ████ I have a p or he helps himself to them it's a ████ gobler just get back

8:26 to gobler way not nice reeling it back in again reeling it back in sorry you take the floor go ahead help help dissipate that I just wanted more questions um when you said that it can take 2 years like is that just because of either like the amount of ink or the size of the tattoo and then when it does finish after T is it like completely completely gone or is there like some sort of fade it can be completely gone we don't know until we get to that point unfortunately um if the tattoo artist went really heavy like I've definitely got some spots on my tattoos where you can feel it it's very scarred I can see the scarring then if the scarring is there the scarring is there we're not doing anything with the scarring we're just removing the ink particles the color that you can see the black so usually yeah usually get some really

9:16 thick areas where they'll be scarring so like when it's all gone you probably will see something but other people won't be like oh my God you had a tat there got it yeah now back to the laser hair removal what did you see most was it vaginas was vagin vaginas the most okay you didn't see any ████ gobling or anything like that what is that thought seen some weird ████ yeah like what do you mean some weird ████ yeah oh like like where the shape was just so foreign to yeah like I already knew I mean obviously being a girl I know there's different shapes and sizes whatever but I there were times where I'd be lasering someone's down there and even I'm like I can't see the clip like I don't know where it is the how the ████ is the guy going to find it thank you no I'm just kidding God somebody said it like I'm not crazy even I'm like where is like

10:08 where is it where have you ever seen a ████ chart there's like that's true 30 different kinds of ████ 30 and they're in and out of different ways one is just a line and then the other one looks like a turkey neck it's like so opposite it's a broad some I've seen some that has more than one layer of ham each side ham I've like three layers on each side a layer of ham I was going to say beef curtains but yeah no but some alone like a wizard sleeve no like very very long wizard sleeve a wizard sleeve high things in there what do you say when the client is like you ever seen one like that I have had people ask me like oh is mine really weird and I'm like why they see your reaction and you're like oh what if she what if she's

10:58 like can I see yours just make make sure all right that's go that's pretty cool I mean all penises look different too no some are ug some are ugly some are so ████ ugly you think so what's it looks like a mole baby what's your what's your ideal yeah what's the one you like the best usually well one clean shaven I don't care about colors cuz color is a color but like just the shape of it is just in the skin is just just nice and smooth yeah smooth I don't how explain it like it just looks nice I've seen some weird ass wonky ones to the point where you're like hello where the head is like really big and then the stem yeah the mushroom head yeah that's

11:48 the that's not an ideal one like a mushroom head or like I call them Chopsticks it's like a chopstick would you call them chop dicks chop dicks wait so the mushroom the head is huge and the dick itself is like a chopstick yeah or like they're shaped like this or just you just laughing or just ones like the whole way it's just thin but long but really thin oh thin but long like what's that mushroom that looks like that so you got like oyster mushroom and noi and like it's a bundle so you never had a client that you were doing like hair removal on his like literally on his dick and he starts to get a boner and he's like heyy take a look at that walk out of the room oh wow so it does happen it can happen because attached to the laser machine there's a cold air that blows out oh to make sure that hair

12:39 REM is hot oh hair remover is actually really hot it need to burn the hair so there's a cold air blowing we're not allow to touch them for guys so we we leave a we leave a towel in there to let them get that extend claw that kids no I just don't touch them and I have to tell them to move it to the left to the right make sure the hairs yeah you're like if you're working with old Asian ladies though they won't care they'll just ████ move your dick aside teamwork in this procedure huh there's been guys that gets hard but you can tell they're really nervous and I'm like no worries I'll just step outside for a moment I'll come back in you've never been like creeped on there has been one or true creepy on how did that how did that go is that flattering though I'm just very professional no not really really girls don't like that huh that's a no no I think yeah um I just do my like I in a way don't care

13:30 because I don't give them two cents for it yeah they try I'm like cool I'm just doing the job all right you need to get dressed and get out whereas other girls are younger girls that haven't been in the industry for long they'll they'll freak out oh cuz they don't know what to do they get really really nervous and guys and you know when a girl's nervous you can tell too but for me I'm like all right you're done get dressed meet you outside Dam and I'm just like very mon you can clearly tell I don't care what if a guy what if you're doing a guy and he just starts ████ pinching his nipples would that be weird he goes oh like that you do would you be like I'm going go outside yeah I'm go I'm it hasn't happened but for me cuz I was men can you put the cold air over here for a sec I I'll just stop I would just stop IM mean we teach the girls this too if they do that stop the machine put it down tell them they need to leave they need to get out a c security I get fired cuz I'll be like for 200 extra I can

14:21 finish that I'll do that job no that's what you need the laser is painful to you need a guy like him to bring in when that happen all right Jo like Allan your turn I guess it's time for me it's Joey time I'm like What's Up and you've never been creeped on as a in any tattoo removal situations before U maybe youve had to have like a dude never like tried to hit on you while you were removing his tattoos there has been yes there's been a few um there's one that found me on dating app as well and then kept liking me and I was like you know I'm your laser tech like don't don't go there don't so they'll like kind of say things while they're getting their tattoo they got to shoot their shot though right yeah but they go misses what do you do after this the Fe that have done itute ja Cafe

15:13 downtown and the pond is like waiting outside the waiting room and I'm like this is just ████ weird oh wow yeah you don't feel like ooh he likes me more than his wife no there's a lot of creeps in you're not an insecure woman that's why no I really don't care guys yeah well that's great thanks for telling us what it's like to be a expert tattoo removal person thank you is there a proper title for that that's not four words long that I just did yeah what's the science word is there like a laser technician laser text and then it's ter that makes you sound futuristic too ████ it it sounds like you fix lasers laser tech it's like I could be I'm Asian so I'm could be smart that way too all Asians fix yeah I know how to do it [Music]

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