If you've just been inked, you probably can't take your eyes off your new body art - unless it's, say, somewhere on your back. But you should also pay close attention to its aftercare, since your skin ...

Tattoo placement affects pain, ageing, and skin health. Experts explain why certain areas fade faster, distort more, and may ...

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 ...

After getting a tattoo, the outer layer of skin (the part you can see) will typically heal within 2 to 3 weeks. While it may look and feel healed, and you may be tempted to slow down on the ...

“For the first three months, it’s best to avoid harsh physical scrubs, AHAs, exfoliants, or retinols, as studies have shown tattoo ink to initially remain in the outermost skin layers ...

This method is more suitable for smaller tattoos. Dermabrasion is a technique that involves using a special tool to sand down the skin and remove layers that contain ink particles. Dermabrasion ...

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Tattooing involves repeatedly piercing your skin’s top layer with a sharp needle covered with pigment. So, getting a tattoo is generally painful, though people may experience different pain levels.

As for the process, he explained, "It's horrible. It's worse [than getting a tattoo]. They gotta burn off a layer of your skin, and then it has to heal for six to eight weeks and you can't get in ...

Tattoos are made permanent by puncturing the skin and implanting ink down into several layers of the skin dermis, Lucy Phillips, dermatology nurse and managing director of Kaizen Medical in ...

Tattoo ink sits in the dermis layer, or second layer, of the skin permanently because ink molecules are “too big for the body to break down,” Goergen explained in a phone interview.