When you look at a person's tattoo, you're seeing the ink through the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. The ink is actually in the dermis, which is the second layer of the skin. The cells of the dermis are far more stable than the cells of the epidermis, so the tattoo's ink will stay in place, with minor fading and dispersion, for a person's entire life.
The pigment is injected into the dermis by way of the tattoo machine.
The ink in tattoos is typically injected into the dermis layer of the skin, which is the deeper layer below the epithelial layer. This helps ensure that the tattoo remains permanent because the dermis is more stable and less likely to regenerate and push out the ink over time.
A tattoo is series of ink-injections into the dermis, which is your middle layer of skin (the outer layer is the epidermis). It stays on because it is injected so deep- but it will fade in time and with exposure to the sun, or with laser tattoo removal.
Tattoos stay in the skin because the ink is deposited into the dermis layer, which is more stable and permanent than the outermost layer of skin. Even though skin cells are constantly being replaced, the ink particles are large enough to be retained in the dermis.
The ink must penetrate the 3rd layer of the skin.Well, I heard it like this! There are three layers of skin, the epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous,or the Fatty layer. The top two must be penetrated for the tattoo to stay...Whether the third layer is touched doesn't matter unless you flood it with two much ink which will cause staining on the surface of the skin in and around the tattoo. Hope this helps.....
Its the 3rd layer of the skin: Epidermis - on the top, renews constantly Dermis - middle layer, doesnt really renew, this is what is damaged when you get scars, and what tattoo ink is injected into Hypodermis (not hyperdermis) - is the subcutenous layer of fat under both of these. There is no hyperdermis in the integumentary system.
A tattoo is permanent because the ink is injected into the deeper layers of the skin where it remains, whereas a suntan fades as the skin sheds and renews itself over time. The cells that produce the pigment in a suntan are located in the upper layers of the skin and are eventually replaced with new cells.
Ink is injected into your skin. Many people get hepatytis 3 from tatoos.
If you don't go that deep, the customer's skin will eventually shed the tattoo.
The same number as there was before the tattoo was done. The tattoo is in the sub dermal layer just under the top layer of skin, the sub dermal layer doesn't change the top lay sluffs off daily and is always regenerated.
The needle of a tattoo gun injects ink about a millimeter down into the skin, which reaches the second layer, or the dermis.
It should go all the way to the dermis! Which is the second layer of skin.