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Are Tattoos Art?

How Tattoo Become an Art Tattoos have a long and complicated history. In different periods and different regions of the world, tattoos have been used to identify and used to...

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Actors and Celebrities who have visible tattoos

Actors and Celebrities Visible Tattoo Doesn’t it seem as if everyone is getting inked these days? It used to be that people making their living in front of a camera...

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White Ink Tattoos

White Ink Colored Tattoos Have you been considering getting a white ink tattoo? Although white ink tattoos are far from new, they are gaining in popularity. Before you head to...

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Visible Tattoo in the Workplace

Office Visible Tattoo The statistics vary depending on the source, but researchers for the Pew Research Center have stated that approximately 40 percent of millennials have at least one tattoo....

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Therapy Tattoo

Therapeutic Tattoo People get tattoos for a variety of reasons. Some get inked to stand out from the crowd, while others get tattoos to share part of their identity with...

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Historical Design of Irish Tattoos

Irish Tattoo Design and Meaning It doesn’t matter if you have one drop of Irish blood or not, in March, everyone across the world is Irish. Perhaps to celebrate your...

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Where Tattoos Hurt the Most

Tattoo Areas That Hurts Most “Will this hurt?” This is one of the most common questions tattoo artists receive from first-time clients. Even though the question is very common, it...

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The Art of Vegan Tattoos

Vegan Tattoo Inspired Art Being vegan is more than what your great aunt describes as “not eating meat.” Being vegan is a lifestyle. You may want to share your passion...

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Will tattoos cover stretch marks?

Replacing Stretch Marks with a Tattoo Do you suffer from striae gravidarum? Although this sounds like a spell Harry Potter would perform, striae gravidarum is the medical term that describes...

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Do tattoos cover scars?

Scars Covered by Tattoo People have varied philosophies when it comes to scars. Some wear their scars with pride, even referring to them as battle wounds or seeing them as...

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What is the Process of Becoming a Tattoo Artist

How to Get Started as a Tattoo Artist Do you love tattoos? Do you find yourself designing amazing tattoos on paper, but unable to make your dreams into realities because...

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4 Tips To Lighten A Tattoo Naturally And Painlessly

Permanent tattoos aren’t easy to get rid of, but natural lightening agents like lemon juice, berries, and milk can help lighten them. An oatmeal or papaya scrub can exfoliate the top layer of skin while aloe vera can soothe the skin and help it heal. If all else fails, there’s always makeup!

Not all tattoos stand the test of time! If you are having second thoughts about some inking you’d got done but are not keen on surgery, some natural remedies can step in to help. And no, they do not involve questionable creams and devices peddled online!

However, do note that natural remedies cannot remove your tattoo entirely. When you get inked, a tattoo needle penetrates beyond the epidermis or outer skin layer and injects the ink into your dermis, the inner layer of skin. And the ink stays entrapped there. Natural remedies only help you slough off or lighten the top layer of skin but do not reach what’s beneath in lower layers of the skin.

The methods that follow can help lighten your tattoo to some extent and are inexpensive and easy to do. More importantly, they are safer than the many dubious options available online which could result in serious reactions. Of course, you should always do a patch test even for these remedies to be sure you are not allergic to these foods/natural products.

1. Use Lemon Juice To Lighten Tattoo

Thanks to the citric acid in it, lemon juice might be able to lighten your tattoo slightly. While a research study on the subject wasn’t able to prove this, there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to support this remedy – especially when it is used regularly.2

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