TATTOOS

What are tattoos?: A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by puncturing the skin with needles and injecting ink, dyes, and pigments into the deep layer of the skin.
Tattoos are created with a small needle filled with ink. These needles penetrate both the epidermis, the outer most layer & the dermis, the inner layers of the skin. The dermis
layer contains blood vessels, hair follicles, glands, nerves & lymph vessels. When the needle penetrates your skin, it causes some damage to it. And where is damage in your
body, there is WBC. These WBC or macrophages, try to remove the foreign particle or ink by engulfing them. This process continues until their belly is full. Even after this
whole cleanup mechanism by the WBC, some of the ink is left behind. This ink gets soaked up by the dermal cells which are known as fibroblast. Both the Fibroblast &
the Microphages remain suspended in the dermis.
Are tattoos permanent?: YES, even know permanent tattoos can fade and loose sharpness, but it is more due to changes in the human body than any external factors. ... In the tattoo process, ink
is being injected into the second layer of your skin, called the dermis. Your epidermis is the top layer of the skin.

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