Why don't they just disappear when skin layers disappear and new skin grows?
2007-05-24 21:54:09 · 16 answers · asked by Tufty Porcupine 5 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Tattoos
it's because the ink is injected down into a layer of skin called the Dermis, which is stable, and does not shed or peel like the Epidermis (epidermis is the outer most layer of skin)
it's nothing to do with how strong the ink is.... afterall, inmates are able to tattoo themselves and eachother using only Biro ink !!! (i used to work in a prison....)
2007-05-24 22:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Karen and Mike have it said pretty well...too bad you can't split points.
The ink is tattooed into the dermal layer of the skin. The hydrator (fluid used to make the tattoo ink into a liquid) is absorbed and the ink particles (some like to say molecules) remain, some in cells, some between cells...pretty much wherever they are injected into that layer of skin because they are not of a size that would be affected by the body's pac-man (macrophages) system to clean it all up.
So it stays put there - even if faded by the sun, the particles remain.
Any tattooing UNDER the dermis results in absorption, migration, or very cloudy, hazy, ugly messes so that answer is clearly wrong. Besides that subdural refers to beneath the dura mater which, to my knowledge, tattoo needles 1. can't get to and 2. have no place there!
2007-05-25 08:55:27 · answer #2 · answered by tatt_bratt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easy! They're iron-on!
We have 7 layers of skin and the ink is injected into the 3rd or 4th layers. They are too deep to peel off with new skin growth.
2007-05-25 07:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by allhailkirby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ink is applied subdural below the dermal layer of skin. As a result it is held in a band of the flesh that does not reproduce, imagine an iced cake the ink is injected into the sponge part of the cake below the icing.
The icing is the portion of the cake take replaces it's self over time.
As a result the ink is never replaced during normal growth and stays visible for the life of the person.
2007-05-25 05:08:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They are deeply engrave into the and not unto the surface so will be thre even if the outer layers of the skin have disappear
2007-05-25 05:28:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anthony B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it stays there because the ink is injected UNDER the topmost layer of your skin. It doesn't get shed with your outer skin layer.
You can see it because the outer layer of skin is transparent.
2007-05-25 05:37:00 · answer #6 · answered by mike p 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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n'ah i think it's because the ink goes to the base layer of skin.
2007-05-25 05:02:02 · answer #7 · answered by Icarus 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because the ink is injected to the root of your skin so your basically changing the colour of your skin.
2007-05-25 04:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
because the ink is under your skin
2007-05-25 05:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a permanent ink injected into the skin.
So its underneath new skin layers.
But i really wouldnt have a clue.
2007-05-25 05:01:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋