Tattoo Removal
Eliminate unwanted ink with precision, speed, and safety.
Clear the Canvas. Restore your Natural Skin.
Tastes shift, personal styles change, and older tattoos don't always align with your current lifestyle. Whether you want a completely clear canvas, lightening for a cover-up, or the removal of a previously treated piece that stalled out, Pico Studio Skin Clinic provides targeted, non-surgical laser clearance designed around your skin.
PicoSure Pro approaches tattoo removal through ultra-short picosecond pulses that target tattoo ink with a predominantly photomechanical effect. Rather than relying on prolonged heat to break down the ink like traditional laser removal devices, our laser delivers energy in trillionths of a second, generating powerful pressure waves that fragment ink particles into much smaller pieces. These microscopic fragments can then be progressively cleared by the body’s natural immune and lymphatic processes.
Tattoo removal is inherently a gradual process rather than a single treatment. Following each session, the body continues clearing the fragmented ink over time, allowing the tattoo to progressively fade with subsequent treatments. The number of sessions required varies considerably depending on the tattoo’s colour, depth, density, location, age, and whether it was professionally or traditionally applied.
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PicoSure® Pro utilizes proprietary PressureWave™ technology. It delivers ultra-fast bursts of energy that create a photomechanical impact, shattering stubborn ink clusters into microscopic, sand-like particles that your body can easily process and eliminate.
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Health Canada approved to safely and effectively treat tattoos and pigmented lesions across skin types. Every treatment meets strict clinical safety, efficacy, and device manufacturing standards in Canada.
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Older tattoo removal lasers carry a high risk of thermal injury, hypopigmentation, and scarring, especially on deeper skin tones. PicoSure® Pro's pressure-based mechanism specifically targets the tattoo pigment without harming surrounding healthy tissue, making it a safe, reliable option across all skin types without excessive heat damage.
This process triggers a remarkable natural response. The mechanical effect of the LIOBs creates controlled micro-injury within the dermal tissue, which signals the skin to begin its natural healing and remodelling process. As part of this response, collagen and elastin production are stimulated, allowing the skin to gradually rebuild, strengthen, and restructure from within.
Before and Afters
Treatments Recommended: 3-6 sessions
Typical Session Duration: 20-30 mins
Estimated Recovery Time: 5-14 days
What to Expect During Your Appointment:
1. A personalized consultation
Every treatment plan begins with a thorough evaluation of your tattoo’s size, location on the body, ink depth, and color characteristics, alongside your skin type and lifestyle habits to customize your schedule.
2. Comfort management
The treatment area is cleansed, and topical numbing is applied. We will wait for the effect to take place before proceeding with the treatment.
3. Targeted laser delivery
Our certified laser specialist guides the PicoSure Pro handpiece across the tattoo, delivering fast, precise bursts of energy directly into the pigment. Duration depends on tattoo size, but generally 20-30 minutes.
4. Immediate response
You may notice temporary "frosting" (a light, chalky whitening on the skin) immediately after the pass, which is a normal indicator of ink fragmentation. Mild redness or swelling resembling a light sunburn may appear for 24–48 hours.
5. Gradual, natural elimination
Your body naturally clears away the fractured ink particles over the next 6 to 8 weeks before your next scheduled session.
Ready to transform your skin?