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Tattooing Site Archive

  • Choosing Your Tattoo Parlor
  • About Laser Tattoo Removal
  • Tattoos The Good The Bad and The Ugly
  • Picking Your Tattoo Design
  • Tattoos The Application Techniques
  • The Costs Of Tattoos
  • What To Known Before Getting A Tattoo
  • Caring For A New Tattoo
  • Tattoo Removal Options
  • About Celtic Tattoos
  • Free Tattoo Designs
  • Ways to Reduce The Pain Of Tattoos
  • The History Of Tattoos
  • The Risks Of Getting Tattoos
  • About Lower Back Tattoos

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    Tattooing Definitions and Factoids

     

    Tattoo Definitions and Facts 3

     

    Tattooing involves the placement of pigment into the skin's dermis, the layer of connective tissue underlying the epidermis. After initial injection, pigment is dispersed throughout a homogenized damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis, in both of which the presence of foreign material activates the immune system's phagocytes to engulf the pigment particles.

     

    As healing proceeds, the damaged epidermis flakes away (eliminating surface pigment) while deeper in the skin granulation tissue forms, which is later converted to connective tissue by collagen growth. This mends the upper dermis, where pigment remains trapped within fibroblasts, ultimately concentrating in a layer just below the dermis/epidermis boundary. Its presence there is very stable, but in the long term (decades) the pigment tends to migrate deeper into the dermis, accounting for the degraded detail of old tattoos.

     

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