Why are tattoos permanent?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Microphases Are Not Dissolved in Solution, Right?
The size of the particles is part of why it can't be broken down gan to the fact that it's still in its solid state. The group of molecules, the way they're arranged, these pigments in a sort of crystal last form, get to stay exactly in that and it just kind of helps deliver, i guess, those pigments into our skin. But i think them not being actually dissolved in solution is part ofwhy the microphases can't, the macrophases can't break them down - right? It's a benefit. If it was solvated more thoroughly, surrounded by solvent molecules more thoroughly and totally dissolved, and we injected liquid color into skin
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