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Chances are if you've got a tattoo or tattoos there's meaning behind the ink.

"On my back it's a bat and that is for good luck," said one tattooed New Yorker. "There is a sun because I love the sun and it is always with me."

"Right here, this is 'One Love,' because I feel you have to love yourself before anybody else," said another.

But some, like Sarah Williams, 31, who got the word "beautiful" with a drawing of an angel tattooed across her arm in college, wind up wishing that ink was invisible.

"It jut bothers me. It's a little masculine. I don't care for it anymore," Williams says.

There are many different tattoo removal methods out there, from at-home, do-it-yourself methods like TatBGone and Wrecking Balm, to pulsed light therapy, which can also be used for hair removal.

But according to experts like Williams' dermatologist, Dr. Neil Sadick, results for at-home creams are mixed and can take years to see significant, if any, results. Methods like pulsed light are not as powerful, and can be more likely to cause scarring.

While costly, ranging from $350 to $1000.00 for three to 10 session depending on how large the tattoo, but Dr. Sadick says lasers are still the gold standard for removal. Sadick uses one of the latest lasers called the Q Switch.

"With newer treatments like the laser, there are almost no instances of scarring," says Sadick. "It's extremely rare, but occasionally there will be a little redness or whiteness along the area where the tattoo is, but in general, the results are excellent using these new generation Q Switch lasers."

Unlike other tattoo removal methods which target the skin, the Q Switch laser will actually target the pigment in a tattoo or the color of a tattoo. It will break it into tiny particles and those will eventually rise to the surface and flake off.

Before the procedure gets underway, the patient gets numbed up with local anesthesia to minimize any pain from the laser. Once the procedure is under way, the high-energy laser actually blasts the ink away.

Sadick says the darker the ink, and lighter the skin, the better the results. Patients with darker skin should have skin tested first before undergoing a full procedure.

Williams will probably need follow up to make sure her tattoo totally fades, but she says she cannot believe the before and after results from just her first treatment.

"Oh, wow!" she says.

Sadick advises that if you're looking to have a tattoo or tattoos removed, make sure your doctor is experienced, and has the most updated technology to treat all colors of tattoos.

For Williams, she says watching her tattoo disappear is a rare instance where "beauty" fading is actually a good thing.