People often ask me why I started this business and whether my background is in any way related to lasers?

Funnily enough, no, I spent 30 years in finance in one way or another (corporate banking/accounts) with intermittent dalliances into various other work avenues. I’m actually a fully trained reflexologist with qualifications in Anatomy and Physiology and have also dipped my toe into mobile spray tanning, make-up artistry, social media/PR, proof-reading/editing and once upon a time even child-minding.

Quite an eclectic mix.

So how did laser treatments come about?

I actually never really liked tattoos especially on women but a nasty illness landed me a week in hospital during which time my beloved little dog Alfie died. When finally out of hospital I decided I wanted a memorial tattoo of the little fella on my leg. This was also a time for a couple of epiphanies, one of which was that I was wasting my life waiting for ‘something’ to happen and that I needed to get up, dust myself down and do it for myself….but what?

Part of this (let’s call it a mid life crisis) propelled me into also wanting an oriental ¾ sleeve tattoo…I envisioned a real ‘kick arse’ phoenix rising from the flames of disaster all fierce and determined…

To cut a rather convoluted part of the story out here the tattoo I finally got was not what I’d envisioned. The whys and wherefores of how my idea and what the tattooist actually inked on me ended up being so different I shan’t go over. Although only at the outline stage I knew this was no angry phoenix…this one was peaceful, benign and gentle amongst some beautiful cherry blossoms.

It dawned on me within a week that I was going to have this on me forever and despite the artist being very talented and the tattoo looking good already, she wasn’t what I’d planned… panic

So I began the long process of researching how tattoos can be removed. And research I did. It went from days to weeks to months of on-line Googling. I learned so much and along the way realised that I was actually now so interested that I’d like to train and go into business doing it myself. It’s funny how life/fate has a way of leading you down a path that you would never have thought of but that suddenly feels ‘right’. I’d been looking for something to do with my life and had been lead to this, initially it seemed by accident or via a ‘mistake’, yet now it seemed to have been purposeful and deliberate.

This is why my beautiful phoenix will now be brought to life. The tattooist had accidentally given me exactly what I wanted. I don’t want an angry tattoo, I want a beautiful, calm, peaceful piece of art….she is indeed benign and gentle…. and she brought me to my business.