Serious question. If a tattoo is ink that gets put into your skin, won’t your tattoo fade away because your body naturally shreds old skin?
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So the way it works is that your skin has several layers to it. In short the outer layer, the middle layer, and the inner layer. They’re all made up of the same stuff and have a ton of layers individually but it’s more helpful to think of it in those 3 bands. Tattoos are only really put into the middle layer, whereas the outer layer is the one that gets shed.
But tattoos actually do fade, at first it’s because there’s some ink in the outer layers and that gets shed in a few weeks as the skin heals because a tattoo is basically just a wound you stuck bits of ink in. After that it’s largely sun damage and your white blood cells recognising that something in your body isn’t actually supposed to be there and are slowly eating away at it.
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