Why do some tattoos (especially text) look ‘blurry’ and smudged while others looks super clean?
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Tattoos inject ink under the skin, which the immune system is not happy about. Some immune cells eat the ink and attempt to break it down, this doesn’t work because the ink isn’t alive, so the immune cell dies from the ink.
When the immune cell is found dead another immune cell comes along to clean it up for the good of the body and then dies from the ink it consumes. This repeats until they are able to finally break the ink down many many many years later. While they do this, the ink is slowly shifted out from where it was and often changes colour causing the blurring and fading to occur.
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