Studio Kiku Saskatoon

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Tattoo removal in Saskatoon

Saskatoon has a median age of 36.8, which makes it one of the youngest cities of its size in Canada, and it has grown steadily for two decades. The University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Polytechnic put close to 38,000 students in a metro of 317,000. The region around it holds nearly two-thirds of the world's recoverable potash, and both Nutrien and Cameco are headquartered here.

The city is also the province's medical centre by default. The University of Saskatchewan runs the only medical school in Saskatchewan, and the Canadian Light Source, the country's only synchrotron, sits on the same campus. Northern and central Saskatchewan travel here for anything a general practice cannot handle, from as far as 650 kilometres north.

Broadway and Riversdale carry the independent shops and the tattoo studios, and the Saskatoon Tattoo Expo runs annually at Prairieland Park. Removal here has generally meant a room that also does hair removal or skin resurfacing, on a machine chosen to do several jobs adequately. Studio Kiku brings a picosecond laser built for pigment and does nothing else with it.