A tattoo needle punctures the skin around 100 times per second, depositing the ink 1.5 millimeters to 2 millimeters below the surface. It bypasses the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin.
Source: The Tribune-Review
Body art: Meeting of the Marked tattoo convention inks three decades of skin design
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