Not sure if you have seen my thread on laser removal but I would encourage you to check it out if you feel like getting out of your head on this and maybe feeling better about your new tattoo.
just for a taste, I am going to paste a post I made covering the topic of should I shouldn't I.
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I do feel that most of the time, the second guessing, remorse or panic after immediately getting a tattoo is normal for me at least and not a good judge of how much of a mistake it was/wasn't. It often has more to do with OCD, Anxiety and cognitively distorted thinking like "catastrophizing".
The tattoo I am getting lasered wasn’t that bad although I wasn’t happy with the placement which made me decide to go through this process.
Even still I was shocked, and continue to battle with this decision, at how much it cost each session and how many sessions I will need to MAYBE remove it. The pain, depending on your pain tolerance and the location, is as bad or worse than people let on. You won't know if complete removal is even possible until you are so many sessions in that it now looks like your drunk friends scribbled something on you while you were passed out...
I'm not far enough in to this process to be very positive about it. Four sessions in and I'm not quite half way there. (have since discovered probably about a quarter of the way there)
Ultimately, I made the decision because I knew, after two years of having the tattoo, that I was trying to cover it up as often as possible, and I was never going to be happy with it. I also was naive as to the effectiveness of laser removal. I thought I'd be done in a couple sessions, and didn't realize the cost of each laser session would exceed the cost of getting the tattoo. All said and done, if I only need 10 sessions, I will have paid over 10 x's as much to remove, as to get. So the "math" to figure out on this one is, do you hate your tattoo 10 x's as much as it cost and two years worth of painful sessions and unpleasant recovery. .... I am going to add that, if you do hate it 10 x's as much, will you be ok with spending about 5 years of looking a mess where a professionally done tattoo once sat, until you decide, F*** it and just blast over it with something new to agonize over? Cause that is where I am at currently.
Finally, your tattoo really looks good. Technically speaking, it checks off all the blocks so I put this down to first tattoo, big tattoo, highly visible (for you) area and mind screw that is ensuing as a result of the things I just mentioned.
Give it several months and then see what you think. If you still consider laser after that, check out what I've posted and continue to post on this forum as my journey with laser continues.
~Best of luck
