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her clients would say “Hey, what’s going on with this tattoo? Can you zap that too?” They really didn’t understand the difference. They would think because it’s a laser it can remove it. What they didn’t know was that it could burn them. C: So I started to research and realized that no one was focusing on this industry. And having kids of the age where they could start getting tattoos I thought well this will be a huge industry. So I did more research then bought one laser and a Zimmer and started off very, very small in a basement here in Boston. We did a bit of marketing and the business grew quickly. After about a year in the business the Picosure was introduced. The Picosure was the first advancement in the tattoo removal industry in twenty years. It was a really bold and scary move to jump into a $270,000 machine but it has proven to set us apart from our competitors and has created an opportunity for us to be the leaders in the Pico based tattoo removal. We were the first to have it with a high volume business so we’re now the most experienced facility with Pico technology. P: Since then we’ve developed the T2 method which is using two lasers a nanosecond and a picosecond to create the fastest effects possible in 166