For years, getting a tattoo meant accepting it was there to stay.
But when Mike Anderson decided he no longer wanted his ink, he discovered just how difficult it was to undo the permanence.
Unable to find a laser tattoo-removal clinic in Sydney’s inner-west, he and his wife decided to open one themselves.
“We grew out of it pretty quickly,” Anderson tells SBS News.
Twelve years later, what began as a personal solution has grown into a business spanning 12 locations across NSW, Queensland and the United States — part of a booming industry built around a simple idea: what goes on the skin doesn’t necessarily have to stay there.
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We are trending heavily towards women. Year on year, it’s growing exponentially.
With more than a decade in the industry, Anderson…
