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“These particle of ink are kind of being pushed into the skin and they all live in the dermis together, so optically they intermingle [with the old tattoo pigments] and then we blend them with our eyes”
Jake Meeks
We’ve talked about cover-ups a couple of times on the show, but the information bears repeating. Cover-ups are a little bit tricky because the term implies one thing, but what’s actually happening is something slightly different.
All tattoo pigments are held in the dermis, new and old. Some of the older tattoo pigments have been removed by the body so something that looks like fading has occurred, but the pigments that remain are still in the dermis of the skin. When you add new pigment into the skin, some of it sits in the top layer (epidermis) and some of it will get deposited into the dermis and mingle with the old pigments.
The Pigments in the epidermis will look very bold and pronounced, but that’s really a deception. Eventually as the tattoo heals the pigments in the epidermis will slough off, and the healed skin underneath will be what the tattoo really looks like, which will be a blend of old and new tattoo ink.
So you’re really never covering up the old tattoo, it’s more or less trying to push and pull with what’s there to make the eye perceive something else.
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