Your tattoos are inside your immune system, literally.
With each very tasteful piece of art, you kick start a drama with millions of deaths, grand sacrifices and your immune system stepping in to protect you from yourself.
Let's give you a tattoo and zoom in to see what happens inside your skin.
The Conveyor Belt of Death Your skin has to solve a huge problem – it's your largest organ and has the most direct contact with the world around you.
Trillions of microbes, dirt, insects and vermin can't be allowed to get inside you – but your skin is also constantly damaged by you moving through the world.
Your body solved this by making your skin a conveyor belt of death.
All the skin you see is actually dead stuff.
The alive part of your skin cells begins around one millimeter deep, in the skin industrial complex.
Stem cells constantly clone themselves producing new skin cells that begin a journey from the inside to the outside.
Each new generation pushes the older ones further up.
