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

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    Tattoos 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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