What are the dangers involved with recieving a tattoo?
Well, in almost all cases there is no danger. Most problems that occur with tattoos done by an educated professional tattooist come from an outside variable such as coming in contact with some form of staph while the tattoo is healing, letting the tattoo scab, or applying too much ointment. There are however some very rare instances of people having allergic reactions to the pigments. Since all of our systems are different there is always a possibility of allergic reaction to anything. There are typically two types of allergic reactions to tattoos if they do happen at all, contact dermatitis and photoallergic dermatitis. “Dermatitis (eczema) is inflammation of the upper layers of the skin, causing itching, blisters, redness, swelling, and often oozing, scabbing, and scaling.” says Merck. Contact dermatitis is simply from coming in contact with an allergen, while photoallergic dermatitis is a chemical reaction occuring between the pigment, your body chemistry, and the sun. Ray (who’s be
