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.

Getting a tattoo means piercing your skin with needles and injecting ink into the second layer of the skin, called the dermis ...

At the same time, I didn’t see anyone in the tattoo photos plastered on the walls who had brown skin like mine: skin the color of milk chocolate with tints of bronze and golds. As much as I ...

The study comes at a time when the number of people getting tattooed has significantly increased across the globe.

Getting a tattoo is a notoriously painful process but that doesn't stop all that many people from getting their skin inked. Luckily for them, tattoo machines have come a long way from the tools ...