Where does the color of your tattoo go?

With each needle during a tattoo, a small trace of precipiton color in dermis, a leather layer beneath the epiderme.

A study conducted at the German Federal Institute for Risk Rating found that color does not remain in dermis where it was injected.

Some particles of color travel through the lymphatic system and into the bloodstream, reaching the lymph nodes in just a few minutes. The authors of the study first conduct a color analysis for a tattoo collected from human lymph nodes. By the way, biopsy pathologists have begun to notice decades ago that lymph nodes in tattooed people are often expanded and pigmented.

Titanic dioxide, a common component of white pigment usually used in other colors to create a variety of shade, does not break down in such tiny particles as black carbon, but the largest particles of titanium dioxide are still found in the lymph nodes.

The author of the study, Ines Schreiver, says that these substances are not something you would like to permanently deposit in your organs.

The “Ende is not known what harmful effects they can have on the liver and the lymph node”, she said.

What is known is that tattoo color can cause lymph nodes and blood clots to form, and long - term studies are needed to determine other side effects.