| So you have been looking at a lot of cool cross | | | | designs and would like to know how exactly these |
| tattoo designs in your local tattoo shop. But have | | | | designs would remain with you for the rest of |
| you really made up your mind about getting one? | | | | your life, read on. A tattoo is permanent simply |
| Have you thoroughly done your research on | | | | because once it is done correctly, the tattoo |
| getting a tattoo? Read on for some of the few | | | | artist will pierce the ink or pigment particles below |
| things you may want to put into consideration: | | | | the epidermis and right into the part of the skin |
| First, what is a tattoo? A medical and scientific | | | | between the epidermal and dermal skin layers. |
| definition gives us something that means: "a | | | | The second layer of the skin, the dermal layer, |
| process of permanently inserting colored pigments | | | | contains a lot of blood vessels, hair follicles, nerves |
| below a person's skin with the use of a needle or | | | | as well as lymph vessels. When you get a tattoo, |
| any sharp instrument". There are other | | | | the ink or pigments get trapped in the dermis. |
| dictionaries that define a tattoo as an indelible | | | | Since ink or tattoo pigments are foreign objects |
| mark inserted underneath the skin. This gives us | | | | to your body, the lymphocytes will try to remove |
| the idea that any instrument will do the job and | | | | the ink from your body especially if the ink that |
| that it does not matter if an instrument is sharp | | | | was used is inorganic or toxic. Because the dermis |
| or not. | | | | is pierced with massive amount of organic or non |
| Actually, a sharp needle is one of the first | | | | toxic pigment, the lymphocytes would then try to |
| requirements for those cool cross tattoo designs | | | | remove what it can from the body. What it could |
| to come out looking perfect. A sharp sanitized | | | | not remove is taken care of by the macrophages |
| needle to be more precise, is needed to puncture | | | | which are another form of white blood cells. What |
| the skin so the pigment or ink can be inserted | | | | these does is to encircle the organic ink particles |
| underneath the skin. The human skin on the other | | | | and begin a process that would start the |
| hand, consists of three layers: the epidermis, the | | | | formation of scar tissues, imprisoning the organic |
| dermis and the subcutaneous layer which is also | | | | ink particles in place and there it will forever |
| known as the hypodermis that attaches your skin | | | | remain. |
| to the muscles and the bones. The top layer of | | | | Should you decide on cool cross tattoo designs or |
| the skin, basically consists of a layer of dead skin | | | | any other form of body art and you do decide to |
| cells and a person with healthy skin, replaces this | | | | get that tattoo, make sure that you do a |
| layer every single month. So if that is the case, | | | | background research on the tattoo art shop that |
| how come tattoos stay permanent? | | | | you would be going to. |
| If you really are hooked on cool cross tattoo | | | | |