14 DAY TRIAL // We, humans, discovered tattoos many millennia ago, and by the looks of it, we're nowhere near done inking our skin. In fact, tattoos are more popular than ever in this day and age.
Assuming there are tattoo lovers among you - and statistically speaking, there should be a few - here's a cool video explaining why it is that, once embedded into our skin, tattoos last forever.
To begin with, here's what you should know: the ink artists use to create everlasting tattoos on people's skin comprises just two ingredients: pigments and a liquid carrier.
Tattoo needles are designed to puncture the skin and release color pigments into the dermis, which is the thick layer of tissue just under the epidermis, i.e. the skin's outermost layer.
The immune system responds to this invasion by sending special cells to the supposedly wounded area. These cells gobble up the pigments and get so plump that they get stuck in the matrix of the skin.
True, tattoos do tend to fade away in time as the body breaks down the color pigments in the ink and bits of pieces of them are simply flushed out. Still, it takes a long while for this to happen, so, yes, it's safe to say tattoos are permanent.
