Luckily, her doctors realized the color was caused by broken-down tattoo ink building up in the nodes. Their analysis showed the discoloration wasn’t dangerous. Pigment breakdown also happens wh ...

Half the inks tested in a study contained polyethylene glycol, which can cause organ damage with repeated exposure. Some ...

Last year, the FDA issued guidance to tattoo ink makers urging them to step up precautions across the industry. Since 2003, the agency says tattoo makers have conducted 18 recalls over inks found ...

Sealed bottles of tattoo and permanent makeup ink, including some marked as sterile, contained millions of potentially dangerous bacteria, according to new research by the US Food and Drug ...

A laser is used on the skin to break up the tattoo ink into small particles that the body’s immune system dissolves over time. Sessions typically last 30 minutes and cost several hundred dollars ...