Can I remove Skin Tags myself? Skin Tags are a vascular blemish which means they have a blood supply and they can also on occasion have nerves. This means when attempting to remove yourself via the means of scissors or some other methods it can result in heavy bleeding and the potential of infection. There are many ways I have seen in which to remove a skin tag using ‘at home’ methods. Quite honestly they all horrify me, from kits you can buy online to just home attempts such as tying string around them. Believe it or not I have actually had a client visit me with string embedded into