This is below the top layer of skin–the epidermis–but above the skin’s fat. Cells in the dermis are replaced much more slowly than in the epidermis, which is why tattoos don’t fade as we ...

Until your tattoo is fully healed (i.e. when a new layer of protective skin has grown over it), it's vulnerable and prone to infection. "Water from a pool, lake, or ocean is not sterile and can ...

Tattoos larger than the palm of a hand more than double a person's risk of skin cancer and nearly triple their risk of lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, researchers found.

When a person gets tattooed, the ink is deposited via tiny punctures under the top layer of the skin, explained anthropologist Christopher Lynn. As a result, the body views a tattoo as a wound and ...

"Immediately after tattooing and before the first layer of skin heals over, you have a fresh tattoo. This is the sharpest and ...

Here's what they discovered. In order for a tattoo to be permanent, ink has to get into the dermis, the tissue just underneath the outer layer of your skin, called the epidermis. This is done by ...

Using a database that tracks the health outcomes of twins, scientists have found more evidence that getting tattoos may be linked to skin cancer. In a new paper published in the journal BMC ...

Tattoos, on the other hand, are far more longer lasting. The basic theory of tattooing is simple. Rather than putting ink on the epidermis (the upper layer of skin), it is instead inserted into ...