: How do dermatologists treat skin tone tattoos? Please assume a case when a patient had a skin tone colored (a.k.a body colored) tattoo on a scar, to cover that scar, but that tattoo wasn't satsifcatory. If the tattoo was

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How do dermatologists treat skin tone tattoos?
Please assume a case when a patient had a skin tone colored (a.k.a body colored) tattoo on a scar, to cover that scar, but that tattoo wasn't satsifcatory.

If the tattoo was black, laser was likely a great solution for such problem but I know that laser may not be effective to colorful tattoos; from Wikipedia:

Typically, black and other darker-colored inks can be removed
completely using Q-switched lasers while lighter colors such as
yellows and greens are still very difficult to remove

and:

For example, red light is highly absorbed by green tattoo pigments,
while yellow tends not to absorb light.

But I might still have hope with this type:

Q-switched Frequency-doubled Nd:YAG: 532 nm. This laser creates a green light which is highly absorbed by red, yellow, and orange
targets. Useful primarily for red and orange tattoo pigments, this
wavelength is also highly absorbed by melanin (the chemical which
gives skin color or tan) which makes the laser wavelength effective
for age spot or sun spot removal. Nd:YAG lasers may cause hemoglobin
absorption, leading to purpura (collection of blood under tissue in
large areas), pinpoint bleeding, or whitening of the skin.[39]

The following Google search query didn't gave me any concrete result:

"skin tone tattoo" removal

The following Google search query gave me the following result:

body color tattoo removal

Link:

No single laser can remove all tattoo colors.

Different dyes respond to different light wavelengths.
Black and dark green are the easiest colors to remove; yellow, purple,
turquoise and fluorescent dyes are hardest to fade.

None of the above sources mentioned skin tone color specifically so I don't have an opinion about it.

How do dermatologists treat skin tone colored tattoos which didn't came out good?

One possible solution I found is cover up tattoo but what could be handy if a patient doesn't want a cover up, rather, mere removal?

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