Editorial Standards

Short version: here is how a number gets onto this site, what we mean when we say "not medical advice," and what happens after somebody tells us we got something wrong.

Sourcing a session count or a price

Most figures on this site trace back to one place: a calculator model built in-house from clinic pricing surveys and published cost reporting on laser and dermatology practices in the US, and it is always labeled as our own estimate, not a scraped or purchased dataset. On the rare occasion a guide leans on a specific outside number, say, how many sessions a green tattoo typically needs versus a black one, that source gets named right in the sentence where the claim shows up. Laser clinics, medspas, and device makers get zero say in what a table shows; nobody buys a better number here.

The line between reporting and medicine

Naomi Foster reports on what removal actually costs; she does not practice medicine and has never claimed a license that lets her. So when a guide touches on pain, scarring odds, or how a reader's skin tone factors into results, that content is a plain-language summary of published dermatology and clinical sources, and it says so, including the parts where the research is genuinely split rather than settled. None of it substitutes for sitting across from a licensed provider who can look at your actual skin. That conversation, and the decision that follows it, stays with you and them.

What happens when a reader flags an error

Something look off, a stale number, a wrong date, a claim that does not check out? The contact page is where that goes. Before anything on the page moves, Naomi pulls the original pricing data or clinical source the sentence was built on and checks it against what was reported. A real correction updates the guide's revision date, and if it touches a cost figure or a safety-related claim specifically, a short note at the bottom of that article explains what changed and why. Nothing gets quietly scrubbed.

Where we draw the line