If our body is constantly shedding skin cells, why are tattoos there for years and years of the original skin cells are not?
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Your “skin” looks like a tiramisu, it’s got layers. There’s your epidermis (top layer), dermis and hypodermis (fatty layer). A tattoo that is too shallow and in your epidermis will sluff off. When you see a tattoo that’s “blown out” that means the artist went to deep and got it in your hypodermis. The fatty layer doesn’t have the same structural integrity as the dermis, so the ink will run and look all fuzzy.
There’s some immune reaction to the ink particles that are another reason the ink stays. I don’t really understand it so I won’t try and explain it. But regarding your question, it’s simply below the layer that sluffs off regularly. It’s not “much deeper” as others are saying, just a little deeper. It’s about the depth of a cat-scratch.
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