Originally Posted by gymnutt
Actually you might be suprised..some artist do some amazing coverups. With that said, if your tatto is only black as you stated, you stand a good chance of having it burned off by laser quite quickly, black burns off very readily. If it's green you are scre**d. In '94 I got a large tribal back piece on my back in black. I didn't like it. In '96 I got it burned off, it took 4 sittings of about three hours each for a very large tattoo. At the end of the treatments 2 months later you could see a faint outline. Within a year you could look at my back and never know I had a tattoo there. The good news..I was a jarhead at the time and uncle sam picked up the tab in full at a military hospital. If this option isn't available I know many clinics in metropolitan areas offer free tatto removal for gang members, thus convince the clinic md that your tattoo is gang related and you might get your work done free of charge. If that fails there's always the burner on the stove. good luck.