If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Finally pulling the trigger on that new tattoo feels ...

So you have a tattoo that you’re looking to remove—preferably at home, without the pain of professional laser treatments. I get it. Which means you’ve probably also seen some of the “magical” DIY ...

It doesn’t look so good permanently etched on your body anymore. That’s where Canadian graduate student Alec Falkenham enters the picture. Falkenham, a Ph.D. student in pathology at Dalhousie ...

PITTSBURGH — If you’re tired of a tattoo, a simple cream may be able to erase it for good. A Canadian researcher is testing a cream that encourages white blood cells to dispose of excess pigment ...

Some people wear their intricate tattoos as a badge of pride, while others bitterly regret their inkings. Now a pain-free treatment to erase unwanted designs may be on the horizon in the form of a ...

Falkenham came up with the idea three years ago—while working on his Ph.D. proposal and thinking about getting his first tattoo. He did some research, and he realized that the immune system cells he ...

Not-so-proud tattoo owners could soon find themselves freed of their dodgy inks for as little as £3. All thanks to 27-year-old inventor and PhD student, Alec Falkenham. Falkenham is in the process of ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Remember when having tattoos was such a scandalous thing, and ...