A Better Experience

A Better Experience

A Better Experience

Built by pain doctors.
Designed for comfort.

Built by pain doctors.
Designed for comfort.

Built by pain doctors.
Designed for comfort.

Tattoo removal has a reputation for hurting. We founded Inked Away to change that, with the most advanced laser we could buy and every comfort tool a medical practice can offer.

Tattoo removal has a reputation for hurting. We founded Inked Away to change that, with the most advanced laser we could buy and every comfort tool a medical practice can offer.

Tattoo removal has a reputation for hurting. We founded Inked Away to change that, with the most advanced laser we could buy and every comfort tool a medical practice can offer.

Inked Away treatment room with the PicoWay laser and treatment chair
Inked Away treatment room

Co-Founder

Wesley Prickett, MD

Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Co-Founder

Matthew Stottle, MD

Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Two physicians. One question.

Two physicians.
One question.

Our founders have spent their careers managing pain. Dr. Wes Prickett is a board-certified anesthesiologist. Dr. Matthew Stottle is a board-certified pain management physician. Between them, they know more about keeping patients comfortable than most people in the tattoo removal industry ever will.

When they looked at how tattoo removal is usually done, the question was obvious: why does it still hurt this much? Many clinics run older lasers and offer little more than an ice pack. Patients grit their teeth, and some never come back to finish.

So they built Inked Away around a different standard. Every piece of equipment and every step of the visit was chosen for one reason: to make removal more comfortable and more effective.

Our founders have spent their careers managing pain. Dr. Wes Prickett is a board-certified anesthesiologist. Dr. Matthew Stottle is a board-certified pain management physician. Between them, they know more about keeping patients comfortable than most people in the tattoo removal industry ever will.

When they looked at how tattoo removal is usually done, the question was obvious: why does it still hurt this much? Many clinics run older lasers and offer little more than an ice pack. Patients grit their teeth, and some never come back to finish.

So they built Inked Away around a different standard. Every piece of equipment and every step of the visit was chosen for one reason: to make removal more comfortable and more effective.

Physician-owned.

Staffed by Real Docs + NPs.

Every treatment is done by a nurse practitioner or physician, with anesthetic options that most tattoo removal clinics are not licensed to offer.

Physician-owned.

Staffed by Real Docs + NPs.

Every treatment is done by a nurse practitioner or physician, with anesthetic options that most tattoo removal clinics are not licensed to offer.

How It Works

Five layers of comfort, working together.

No single tool makes tattoo removal comfortable.

The combination does.

No single tool makes tattoo removal comfortable. The combination does.

Every visit starts with a conversation, not a laser. Your provider looks at your tattoo's size, colors, and location, asks how you feel about treatment, and builds a comfort plan around your answers. A small tattoo on the forearm might only need cold air. A rib piece on a nervous first-timer might get all five.

Once treatment begins, the cooling runs the whole time, and we can pause whenever you like. When you're done, we walk you through aftercare and send you home with everything you need to help your skin recover. No surprises and no toughing it out.

Every visit starts with a conversation, not a laser. Your provider looks at your tattoo's size, colors, and location, asks how you feel about treatment, and builds a comfort plan around your answers. A small tattoo on the forearm might only need cold air. A rib piece on a nervous first-timer might get all five.

Once treatment begins, the cooling runs the whole time, and we can pause whenever you like. When you're done, we walk you through aftercare and send you home with everything you need to help your skin recover. No surprises and no toughing it out.

Picosecond Laser

Faster pulses, less heat, less discomfort.

Cryo Cooling

-30°C air numbs the skin as we treat.

Prescription-Strength Numbing

Pharmacy-compounded topical anesthetics for sensitive spots

Local Anesthetics

Ultimate comfort for sensitive areas.

Local Anesthetics

Providing the ultimate comfort for the most sensitve areas.

Environment, Your Way

Sonos sound in every room. Your playlist, your pace.

Candela PicoWay Laser System
Candela PicoWay Laser System

The Laser

PicoWay by Candela: speed is what makes it gentler.

Less heat on your skin. More power to the ink.

Every laser tattoo removal works the same basic way: light passes through the skin and breaks up ink so your body can clear it. The difference is how it breaks it up.

Many clinics still use nanosecond (Q-switched) lasers. They work largely by heating the ink, and that heat spreads into the surrounding skin. More heat means more discomfort, more irritation, and more downtime.

PicoWay, one of the newest and most advanced tattoo removal lasers available, works in picoseconds instead: pulses roughly 1,000 times shorter. The energy hits so fast that it shatters ink with a pressure wave rather than cooking it. Less heat reaches your skin, so treatments are more comfortable and your skin recovers faster between sessions. Because PicoWay needs less energy to do the job, it also reduces the risk of scarring and pigment changes.

Three handpieces, four wavelengths

to target black, blue, green, red, yellow, orange, brown, and purple inks.

Three handpieces, four wavelengths

to target black, blue, green, red, yellow, orange, brown, and purple inks.

FDA-cleared

for tattoo removal on all skin types (Fitzpatrick I to VI).

FDA-cleared

for tattoo removal on all skin types (Fitzpatrick I to VI).

Less heat

on surrounding skin than older nanosecond lasers.

Less heat

on surrounding skin than older nanosecond lasers.

Often fewer sessions

because smaller ink particles clear more easily.

Often fewer sessions

because smaller ink particles clear more easily.

Cryo Cooling

Zimmer Cryo 6:
-30°C air, right where the laser works.

A great laser is only half the answer. The other half is what your skin feels while it's working.

The Cryo 6 blows a steady stream of air as cold as -30°C (-22°F) over the exact area being treated. It numbs the skin in seconds and keeps it numb for the whole session, so the laser feels like much less than you expect. It runs throughout every session at no extra cost. Prefer to go without? Just tell us.

The cold does more than dull the sting. It helps reduce swelling and relaxes the muscles under the skin, so you leave more comfortable and the area feels calmer afterward.

It's a serious piece of medical equipment, and plenty of clinics skip it to save money. We didn't. When it comes to your comfort and your results, we don't cut corners.

"Most people are surprised by how much less it hurts than they expected." [Replace with quote from demo]

Zimmer Cryo 6 cold-air cooling system

Numbs in seconds, without touching your skin

Constant cooling from start to finish, not an ice pack that warms up halfway through

Less swelling after treatment

Nothing disposable touches you. Just clean, cold air

Topical Anesthetics
Topical Anesthetics

Only at Medical Clinics

Rx-strength numbing for sensitive locations.

Some areas are just more sensitive: ankles, feet, ribs, wrists, the inner arm. At most tattoo removal shops, your only option there is an over-the-counter numbing cream and hoping for the best.

InkedAway is different because of who runs it. Our clinic is owned and operated by two physicians, and every treatment is performed by a licensed nurse practitioner. That means we can offer pharmacy-compounded numbing creams at prescription-only strengths, far stronger than anything you can buy at a drugstore.

We use them where they make a real difference, applied in the clinic under our provider's supervision, so sensitive areas feel as manageable as everything else.

These creams are applied in-clinic. The discomfort they address happens during treatment, and that's where we focus. Afterward, any mild soreness is usually handled with over-the-counter pain relievers and the aftercare moisturizers and repair creams we send home with you.

A Real Difference

Typical Removal Shop

Over-the-counter numbing cream

vs.

Prescription Strength Topical Analgesia

Corporate-owned, technician-performed

Physician-owned, nurse practitioner-performed

One approach for every area

Tailored to the sensitivity of your tattoo's location

The Experience

Less clinic.
More getaway.

Comfort isn't only physical.
The room you're in and what you hear matter too.

That's why every Inked Away treatment room features a state-of-the-art, Sonos-powered listening experience. Stream your favorite playlist straight from your phone, or tell us what you're in the mood for. Classic rock, a podcast, total silence: your call.

It's the same thinking behind everything else here. Cutting-edge technology runs through the entire Inked Away experience, from the laser on your skin to the music in the room.

It's a small thing. But when you're relaxed, everything feels easier, and that's the whole point.

Comfort isn't only physical. The room you're in and what you hear matter too.

That's why every Inked Away treatment room features a state-of-the-art, Sonos-powered listening experience. Stream your favorite playlist straight from your phone, or tell us what you're in the mood for. Classic rock, a podcast, total silence: your call.

It's the same thinking behind everything else here. Cutting-edge technology runs through the entire Inked Away experience, from the laser on your skin to the music in the room.

It's a small thing. But when you're relaxed, everything feels easier, and that's the whole point.

Sonos-equipped treatment rooms
Sonos-equipped treatment rooms
Sonos-equipped treatment rooms

Ready when you are.

Ready when you are.

Ready when you are.

Tattoo removal doesn't have to be something you brace for.

Tattoo removal doesn't have to be something you brace for.

Tattoo removal doesn't have to be something you brace for.

Book a consultation, meet our team, and we'll build a plan around your tattoo, your skin, and your comfort.

Book a consultation, meet our team, and we'll build a plan around your tattoo, your skin, and your comfort.

Book a consultation, meet our team, and we'll build a plan around your tattoo, your skin, and your comfort.