How Tattoo Ink Enters the Body When you get a tattoo, the ink is injected into the dermis, the second layer of your skin. Unlike makeup or temporary tattoos, this ink stays in your skin permanently.

That is the motto of Ephemeral, a cosmetic company that developed a made-to-fade, semi-permanent tattoo ink in 2014. But some customers who were told their tattoos would disappear within 9-15 ...

Western University chemist Yolanda Hedberg's 2021 study analyzed more than 70 tattoo ink samples, finding traces of potentially harmful metals like nickel and chromium in almost all of the samples ...

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.

New tattoo and permanent makeup shop Ink Social opened in Waite Park in early March. Owner Lexus Latzka Illies specializes in permanent makeup and fine line tattoos and plans to expand the shop's ...