Can you estimate my session count from a photograph?
We give a provisional range from photographs and firm it up in person. Send the piece in natural light with a coin or a ruler beside it for scale, say roughly when it was done and whether anything has been covered up, and add your travel dates. Depth and density are read far more reliably with the area uncovered in front of us.
What is the estimation scale clinicians use?
A published scoring system that rates a tattoo on features such as its colours, the amount of ink, the site on the body, the patient's skin type and whether there is existing scarring, then converts the score into an expected number of treatments. A retrospective clinical evaluation revisiting that scale is listed in the references below.
Which parts of my tattoo will lag behind the rest?
Usually the greens, bright blues, yellows and some reds, along with any area that was retouched or covered over. Dense black outlines often move first, which is why a piece can look stripped down to its colour fills partway through a course. Your director names the likely stragglers at the consultation so the patchy phase is expected.
Does lightening for a cover-up take fewer visits?
Generally yes, because a new design only needs the old one faded enough to sit over it. That target is agreed at the start, ideally with the replacement design available, since a tattooist can tell us how much fading the new piece actually needs. Switching from clearing to lightening halfway through is possible, and it changes the remaining count.
Can I have sessions closer together to finish faster?
No. The interval exists because fragmented pigment is carried away by your immune system over the weeks between visits, so returning early asks skin that is still recovering to absorb more energy for less gain. That trade produces blisters and lasting colour change, and it is the single most common way an ink course goes wrong.
How many sessions fit into a two-week trip to Seoul?
One, sometimes two if your dates straddle the interval awkwardly and the first session falls on arrival. A course is measured in months, so a single trip is a start on it. We would rather tell you that before you book flights than after the first visit, and we plan the rest around your next trip.
Do eyebrow and eyeliner tattoos need the same number of visits?
They run on their own schedule, priced by region at ₩150,000 (≈ $105) a visit. Cosmetic pigments can shift colour under energy, which is why a first session on a brow is deliberately cautious and the count is not fixed early. The lash line is the most delicate area treated here and is paced accordingly, with eye protection in place throughout.
What does a session cost while I work out the total?
Body ink is ₩90,000 (≈ $65) for each five centimetres of tattoo per visit, and cosmetic tattoo is ₩150,000 (≈ $105) per visit. Multiply the relevant line by the range you were given and you have the realistic span. Nothing is taken in advance, so the total follows what your ink actually needs.
Will a darker skin tone mean more sessions?
Often, because settings are kept conservative to reduce the risk of pigment change in the skin surrounding the ink, and intervals may be lengthened as well. The trade is a longer course against a lower chance of a lasting patch of altered colour. Your baseline is read at the scan and the pacing is set from it.
What happens if the fading stops before the tattoo is gone?
You are told at the review. Certain colours reach a plateau where additional visits stop adding much, and photographs compared side by side make that visible. At that point the options are stopping, switching the goal to a cover-up, or spacing visits further apart, and the decision is handed back to you before another booking is taken.
Which laser is used for the sessions here?
The device configuration for your session is explained at the consultation. The studies listed below describe the specific systems used in those trials, including picosecond and Q-switched platforms, and they are provided as background on the field. They are not a description of the equipment your own course will run on.
Do visitors pay a different rate per session?
No. Both lines are published and apply to everyone, settled in KRW with the USD figure alongside shown as a reference that moves with the exchange rate. We reply to the consultation form in English as soon as possible, give you a session range in that reply, and hold an appointment without taking a deposit.
