A lot of progress has been made in tattoo removal. It isn’t perfect, but it’s 90%.
There’s a guy at the gym who is probably in his 40’s. One of his arms is pretty well sleeved. The other one has very faded ink, probably what’s left over from tat removal. That must have been the anti-social arm when he was younger. The only thing remarkable is that they were once there.
Maybe this guy should check it out.
BTW, it works by using lasers tuned to colors which are destructive to particular pigments, breaking them up. Then the body cleans up most of the resulting debris.
One of the really good thing some Evangelical churches do in their prison outreach is finance tattoo removal for inmates who are in line to be released. This guy’s experience shows how important such removal is, and he’s not even an ex-con.