Why do tattoos that have been healed for years raise and swell

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Myself and many of my other tattooed friends seem to experience this especially during allergy season. Google seems to have no definitive answer.

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The ink is sitting in an “in between” layer in the dermis. It’s never fully accepted into the body, it just hangs out as bits of foreign particles. Your body is still whipping out new cells constantly, so the ink patch migrates.

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