what happens when you zap the blood vessels in tattoos?

Question: what happens when you zap the blood vessels in tattoos?
- Keywords:
  blood,
  tattoo,
  vessel,
  zap
Asked by sparkle13princess to Tom on 28 Jun 2012.
- Tom Lister answered on 28 Jun 2012:
  
  If there is a tattoo, it usually sits over the blood vessels and if we try to fire the vascular laser at it, we will burn the skin. Tattoos are just ink which has been injected into the skin.

Question: what happens when you zap the blood vessels in tattoos?