Lightening your unwanted tattoo prior to having a cover up will give you and your artist a lot more flexibility to create a perfect new tattoo. This will allow you to have want you want and love your new tattoo forever with out compromising on the design. In fact most tattoo artists encourage clients to lighten their existing tattoos prior to covering with a new one; this dramatically reduces the chance of your old tattoo appearing through your new work. In most cases, 2-6 treatments is required to lighten an existing tattoo, which leaves you with a much broader range of cover-up options!