Pete Davidson’s tattoo removal journey has an end in sight — but not for another few years.
The 27-year-old “SNL” star plans to have his massive ink collection gone by the time he turns 30.
“I get my next treatment [in] like a month or so,” he told People. “They said by the time I’m 30, they should all be gone. So they got, like, two more years left of this.”
The comedian said he hasn’t had a laser treatment in the past four or five months, and that it takes about a month to heal from a session.
He previously said he decided to remove his tattoos because of the hassle of showing up to film sets almost three hours early to cover everything up.
But the removal process has not been easy.
“Burning them off is worse than getting them, because not only are they burning off your skin, but you’re wearing these big goggles, right?” Davidson said on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” in May. “So you can’t see anything, and the doctor’s in there with you,” Davidson began.
He reportedly has more than 100 tattoos of various political icons, personal tributes and pop culture references including Willy Wonka and his late father Scott Davidson, a firefighter who died on 9/11.
In a 2019 interview with Inked magazine, Davidson said he got tattooed so frequently because, “It’s just a release … When [I’m] so manic and upset, sometimes that’s the only thing that will work for me.”
In the star’s latest gig, a promotional spot for Smartwater, he shows off his newly tattoo-free hands.