A tattoo can feel completely healed for years, then suddenly act like it is brand new. The lines puff up. One color gets itchy. The whole piece feels raised after a hot shower or a workout. It can be confusing, especially when nothing obvious has changed. Most of the time, a tattoo that raises or itches years later is not an emergency. Tattoos sit in living skin, and living skin reacts to heat, dryness, allergies, illness, friction, and immune changes. The ink is permanent, b

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