The ink, lifted out.
Calibrated to every Fitzpatrick type and planned in stages. A plan, not a promise.
Removing it, or fading it for a cover-up?
The tattoo stayed the same. You didn't.
People evolve. Relationships end, beliefs shift, careers turn, and the reason a tattoo made sense can quietly pass while the ink stays exactly where it is.
Removing it does not erase who you were. It is the next considered step. We read your tattoo and your skin honestly, and build the plan from there.
Fading has a shape. It moves through three stages.
A count of sessions is not a plan. This is the actual shape of removal: what each stage does, and what you see while it happens.
Fragmentation
The laser breaks the ink into particles small enough for your body to carry away. This is the stage you see most: the early sessions take the largest steps, and the change is dramatic and fast. It is the easiest part of the plan to believe in.
Clearance
Your body keeps clearing the fragmented ink between sessions, but from one visit to the next the eye sees less than it did at the start. The progress has not stopped; it has gone quiet. This is the long middle, the stage that asks for patience, and the one we prepare you for from the start.
Refinement
What remains by now is faint, often a ghost of the original tattoo. We treat it as far down as it will go, then give you an honest reading of where it has settled: the result on your skin, told straight.
The gold standard for tattoo removal, taken further.
What sets Pink's removal apart is not a single claim. It is three things, working together: the platform, the procedure it can run, and the clinician calibrating both.
The Fotona StarWalker MaQX
Q-Switched Nd:YAG is the architecture the clinical literature settles on as the gold standard for tattoo removal. The StarWalker MaQX is that, and a step past it: a hybrid pulse that carries picosecond-fast peak power inside a nanosecond of energy, as much as ten joules in a single pulse. Picosecond physics on the proven Q-Switched foundation, not in place of it.
FracTAT®
Pink runs two Fotona platforms side by side, and that pairing is what makes FracTAT® possible. The first drills a fine array of channels into the skin; the StarWalker then passes through them, lifting more ink in one visit than a single pass can. It is a clinically chosen acceleration. Who it suits, and what it adds to the plan, comes next.
The clinician's calibration
A laser is only as good as the judgement directing it. At Pink the settings are not fixed in advance: wavelength, intensity and pace are chosen for your skin and your ink, then adjusted by your clinician after reading how the last session answered. That judgement is the part no specification sheet can carry.
When removal should move faster.
FracTAT® is the most advanced method of laser tattoo removal, and the part of Pink's system built for speed. For the right tattoo it means noticeably fewer sessions. For others, the StarWalker clears the tattoo just as well on its own. That is why FracTAT® is a choice, never a default. Here is how to tell whether it is right for your tattoo.
Considered for
- A previous course, elsewhere, that stalled or moved slowly.
- A real deadline: a wedding, a career change, a date the tattoo needs to be clear of.
- Some textural concern in the tattoo or the skin.
- A tattoo that is hard to live with: a name, a memory, something tied to a person or a time you need behind you. Here, sooner is its own reason.
Not needed for
- A small, simple, black-only tattoo the StarWalker clears well on its own.
- Particular skin or healing histories better suited to the standard path.
Q-Switched Nd:YAG is the architecture the clinical literature holds as the gold standard for tattoo removal, and FracTAT® takes that gold standard further. The peer-reviewed study of FracTAT® recorded an average of 97% clearance in a median of under five sessions, roughly 40% fewer than a standard course. That is published evidence behind the speed FracTAT® is built for. Your own number is not read from a study: it is set by your tattoo and your skin, and confirmed at your consultation. The study shows what FracTAT® can do; your plan is calibrated to do it for you.
FracTAT® is the premium path, and it is priced as one. Per session it costs more than the standard course; because it reaches the result in fewer sessions, the difference over a full plan is far smaller than the per-session figure suggests. What that difference buys is time: fewer visits, and the tattoo behind you sooner. Your free consultation confirms whether FracTAT® is the right call for your skin and your ink.
Six skin tones, one standard.
An all-skin-types claim is only as good as the mechanics behind it. Here are ours. Darker skin is not a harder case handled at the edges of what we do. It is a design constraint the calibration is built around from the first session.
Laser removal works because tattoo ink absorbs the laser's energy. Skin absorbs it too, through melanin, the pigment that gives skin its tone. The more melanin a skin carries, the more it competes with the ink for that energy, and the more precisely the treatment has to be set.
Two things answer that. Wavelength first: at 1064 nm, the laser's longer wavelength passes through melanin with little absorption, reaching the ink while leaving the skin's own pigment largely undisturbed. It is recognised in the clinical literature as the safest wavelength for darker skin. Then calibration: the right wavelength still has to be matched to the skin in front of it, set low and unhurried for higher Fitzpatrick types, and adjusted by the clinician as the skin shows how it responds.
The record behind that is the largest published safety series in tattoo removal: 1,041 patients treated on the Q-Switched Nd:YAG architecture the MaQX is built on. Hypertrophic scarring occurred in 0.28% of cases, and no keloids formed. Thirty-eight of those patients had Fitzpatrick V or VI skin, the tones where scarring risk runs highest, and none of them scarred.
The StarWalker MaQX is FDA-cleared for tattoo removal across all skin types, Fitzpatrick I through VI, at 1064 nm in PICO mode.
None of this is a setting dialled in once. It is the Pink Clinical Team's judgement, read and adjusted at every session.
Meet the Pink Clinical Team →A cover-up starts with a canvas.
Some tattoos here are not being removed. They are being faded, on purpose and partway, to give a new tattoo room to work. A covering artist needs a lighter canvas than the one you have now. That is the whole goal: enough fading to get there, and not a session more.
It is the same laser and the same calibration as a full removal, stopped at a different point. Because a cover-up needs the old ink lightened, not gone, it is usually a short plan: often two to four sessions, sometimes a little more, depending on the tattoo. The early, dramatic fading carries most of it.
Pink fades; your artist covers. Bring the design you are planning, or what your artist has told you they need, into the consultation, and the plan is built backward from that: the right amount of fading, for the cover-up you actually want.
Priced by the size of the tattoo.
The number you see is for the plan, not the session. Each bracket below is sized by the area of the tattoo and carries the program built for that size. A single session is always available as a way in, and any tattoo larger or more layered than the brackets is costed with your clinician at consultation.
Larger than this, a full sleeve, or layered and complex? Your plan is costed with your clinician at consultation.
Every price here is set for a typical tattoo in its bracket, the realistic place a plan starts. Your free consultation confirms the bracket and calibrates the plan to your tattoo and your skin.
“This helped with my tattoo removal to get rid of the darker spots of my tattoo, the treatment was not painful and the staff took care of me”
FracTAT® since 2021
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Doncaster
Where to find us.
Doncaster. Shop 3, 642 Doncaster Road.
Address
Pink Laser Clinics, Doncaster
Shop 3, 642 Doncaster Road
Doncaster VIC 3108
Contact
clientcare@pinklaserclinics.com.au
Clinic Hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10am – 7pm
- Wednesday
- 10am – 7pm
- Thursday
- 10am – 8pm
- Friday
- 10am – 7pm
- Saturday
- 10am – 3pm
- Sunday
- Closed
Reviews
4.9 from 413+ Google & Yotpo reviews