You could be the proud owner of a new tattoo in a matter of hours — but don't let the ease of getting tattoos stop you from making a thoughtful decision about permanent body art. Before you get a tattoo, make sure you know what's involved.

How tattoos are done
A tattoo is a permanent mark or design made on your skin with pigments inserted through pricks into the skin'stop layer. Typically, the tattoo artist uses a hand-held machine that acts much like a sewing machine, with one or more needles piercing the skin repeatedly. With every puncture, the needles insert tiny ink droplets. The process— which is done without anesthetics — causes a small amount of bleeding and slight to potentially significant pain.

The Risks:
Tattoos breach the skin, which means that skin infectionsand other complications are possible. Specific risks include:
Allergic reactions. Tattoo dyes — especially red, green, yellow and blue dyes — can cause allergic skin reactions, such as an itchy rash at the tattoo site. This can occur even years after you get the tattoo.

Skin infections. A skin infection — which might cause redness, swelling, pain and a pus-like drainage — is possible after tattooing.
Other skin problems. Sometimes bumps called granulomas form around tattoo ink. Tattooing can also lead to keloids — raised areas caused by an overgrowth ofscar tissue.
Bloodborne diseases. If the equipment used to create your tattoo is contaminated with infected blood, you can contract various bloodborne diseases — including tetanus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
MRI complications. Rarely, tattoos or permanent makeup might cause swelling or burning in the affected areas during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams. Insome cases, tattoo pigments can interfere with the quality of the image — such as when a person who has permanent eyeliner has an MRI of the eye.
Are you still Considering a Tattoo?

Sanmexy: You could be the proud owner of a new tattoo in a matter of hours — but don't let the ease of getting tattoos stop you from making a thoughtful decision about permanent body art. Before you get a tattoo, make sure you know what's involved.

How tattoos are done

A tattoo is a permanent mark or design made on your skin with pigments inserted through pricks into the skin'stop layer. Typically, the tattoo artist uses a hand-held machine that acts much like a sewing machine, with one or more needles piercing the skin repeatedly. With every puncture, the needles insert tiny ink droplets. The process— which is done without anesthetics — causes a small amount of bleeding and slight to potentially significant pain.

The Risks:
Tattoos breach the skin, which means that skin infectionsand other complications are possible. Specific risks include:

Allergic reactions. Tattoo dyes — especially red, green, yellow and blue dyes — can cause allergic skin reactions, such as an itchy rash at the tattoo site. This can occur even years after you get the tattoo.


Skin infections. A skin infection — which might cause redness, swelling, pain and a pus-like drainage — is possible after tattooing.

Other skin problems. Sometimes bumps called granulomas form around tattoo ink. Tattooing can also lead to keloids — raised areas caused by an overgrowth ofscar tissue.

Bloodborne diseases. If the equipment used to create your tattoo is contaminated with infected blood, you can contract various bloodborne diseases — including tetanus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

MRI complications. Rarely, tattoos or permanent makeup might cause swelling or burning in the affected areas during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams. Insome cases, tattoo pigments can interfere with the quality of the image — such as when a person who has permanent eyeliner has an MRI of the eye.
Are you still Considering a Tattoo?

Why not? Everyone loves tattoos even if you state it its DANGEROUS people still rush at it, am pretty sure they know already what's at stake before the niddle pierces there skin.

It's not as if I'm painting in bad lite, many ppl dat go for Tattoo don't really know much about d procedures, dey just do it because Frds r doing it and regret aftaward.

No retreat,no surrender!!!

Infoseye:

Why not? Everyone loves tattoos even if you state it its DANGEROUS people still rush at it, am pretty sure they know already what's at stake before the niddle pierces there skin.

@infoseye
Dont act ignorant seeing most people just want to feel hip without knowing the repercussions which may follow their actions esp when so many screen icons sport tatoos

@ op,thanks for the info
@ Seun,how come threads like this just die in obscurity,never seeing NL's front page which is always littered with soft sell&owambe news this days?

A punctured skin most likely induced the skin to produced extra collagen which form keloid.tink twice b4 getting that tattoo.