a popular, yet highly condemned, body aesthetic
personal choice, which people use to show off, express their creativity, deal with traumatic events, or fix temporary whims and boredom.
basics: a needle goes into your skin repeatedly, to make a tear and get non-toxic (desired) ink inside. ideally, you do this tattoo thing once, then you move on to another patch of skin, unlike with botox (toxic) or other skin procedures (radio/high frequency, microneedling, peelings, etc.) that work on the basis of they destroy your skin and/or other cells and you need to use up some telomeres and eventually stem cells to heal yourself, procedures that you end up doing
over and over in your life. yes, to look better, and yes, you heal, and yes, right now humans don't reach the maximum
potential of their genetic lifespan anyway to feel a reduction, and miss those stem cells, so why not? better to focus on protecting your heart, and donating to research for cancer, and other bad things.
if done in truly sanitary conditions, tattoos are not that bad
for the body, unless there's something off with the ink, or you choose to remove the tattoo, breaking the ink apart into small-small toxic particles that will then all get absorbed into the bloodstream. health hazard! good luck kidneys! and not only. so choose wisely. ideally you should not have it removed.
wouldn't it be nice instead to have this ink be nutrients
for the body, so that you kinda get a vitamin boots when you wanna change things up?
