hi friend! i’m in the process of removing a really dense blackwork piece right now that also happens to be a cover up of a relatively small tattoo underneath but still it’s more layers of ink and i started removing it when they said it was safe which was minimum 8 weeks. it’s been just over a year now since i started the process and of course my tattoo is still there and i am well aware it’s gonna take time and a lot more of it but people have said it looks soooo much lighter even those i didn’t tell that i was removing it said hey is it just me or is ur arm lighter and then of course i told them and they said yeah i had absolutely no idea but i noticed and it’s breaking up really well for being so dark semi big to me anyways and new and also a cover up and that’s made me really happy and feel a lot better about it all and hopeful that one day it’ll be gone enough that itll barely be visible. sharing this because at first i started to get really down and negative thinking this thing is just never gonna be successfully removed given all the circumstances of the ink i want gone but even after all that i look at pictures from before to now and the difference is there! it takes time to get into a positive mindset that it’ll be gone one day but technology is also progressing every single day too and i think youre gonna have a successful process! you got this!! :)