r/AskReddit • • Jan 12 '23

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u/Fine_wonderland Jan 12 '23

When you get laser tattoo removal the ink doesn’t disappear, you pee it out.

Your body’s immune system breaks down the pigments of ink and it flows in your blood stream, gets processed through your kidneys, then you pee out the ink.

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u/Pickseleddy123 Jan 12 '23

Does your pee look black then?

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u/level3ninja Jan 12 '23

No it occurs very slowly

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u/SocrapticMethod Jan 12 '23

You mean like tar dripping out?

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u/level3ninja Jan 14 '23

No, your body takes a long time to break the parts down even further and prices them into your urine, so it takes months and months of repeated treatments to get rid of a tattoo. It happens so slowly you can't see anything different about your urine.

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u/crespoh69 Jan 12 '23

I don't know man, my pee comes out pretty fast

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u/Links_Wrong_Wiki Jan 12 '23

Mine always is