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3 Major Risks In Getting A Tattoo

Thereis always a risk involved with everything. Even with medicines and medicalprocedures, there is always a certain percentage that something wrong willhappen or have a side effect tolerable or not. That is why people takecalculated risks. In the same manner, getting a tattoo entails some risk

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Tattoo Inks May Present A Greater Risk Than You Think

I have so much information on body art inks that it would take several posts to include it all. First and foremost I will say that from a chemistry perspective body art inks are not inks at all, they are pigments inside a carrier solution. Huh?

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The Risk Is In The Ink!

tattoo inks are not inks at all, they are pigments in a carrier solution. Huh?Simply put it is kind of like adding water to finger paints. However in this case the pigments are typically metal, plastic, or vegatable based while the carrier portions is more than likely some alchohol solution.

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