Why don’t tattoos just go away? If it’s just staining your cells and the cells eventually die, wouldn’t it just disappear?

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Why don’t tattoos just go away? If it’s just staining your cells and the cells eventually die, wouldn’t it just disappear?

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Because the ink is stored in the dermis the deeper layer of skin that doesn’t replenish near as fast, that and the ink is literally passed on to the newly generated cells.

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