If you draw on your skin with a pen everyday on the same spot will it become permanent?

Yeah, I know it's a stupid question but I was just wondering. A girl once told me she did that for her ';beauty mark'; and then it became permanent. So does that actually work?If you draw on your skin with a pen everyday on the same spot will it become permanent?
no honey...





for years i thought i wanted a certain tattoo - and i am not kidding - i sharpied it over and over again, it looked fresh and real every day. after two years, i gave up... and eventually got my first tattoo two years after - and not of the one i was desperately trying to get inked into myself...If you draw on your skin with a pen everyday on the same spot will it become permanent?
thanks!!


but i DO suggest you do what i did - use a sharpie and keep drawing the same thing on, see if you love it enough to want that permanently... i thought i did, and in the end i didnt... Report Abuse

No that doesn't work.





when you write on yourself you are writing on your outer layer of skin -- which is already dead tissue, just waiting to fall off





so when you draw on yourself, even if you didn't ever wash it .. it would eventually come off, because that's how your skin works .. always refreshing itself





when you get a real tattoo however, the ink is ';injected'; into your middle layer of skin, which makes the lasting difference
No honey!


Here's why:


A pen marks the top layer of your skin (epidermis) with ink.


Your skin constantly flakes off and renews itself.


Sooo.. just like your hair is constantly growing and falling out and regrowing... and when people dye their hair (with permanent dye!) it still grows out.


So writing on your skin over and over to keep the mark is the same thing as coloring your hair on a regular basis to cover up the roots... it covers up the new growth.


voila!





Permanent tattoos work completely differently. The reason they use needles is because they inject a special type of ink underneath the skin, so the skin's natural removal is not flaking the drawing off.





Hope that helped :)





oh, and yeah... your friend did lie.
No, it doesnt. She's a liar.





Her ';beauty mark'; is either a real mole/dark freckle, it's tattooed, or she draws it on every day and doesnt want people thinking that she does that.


Try whiping it off with a cotton ball and some alcohol next time you see her and see if she freaks.
No, in order for ink to be permanent it has to penetrate the dermis which is under the epidermis. Even is she was to mark her face with a pen everyday and it stained her skin, it would eventually wear off from skin regeneration.
No the ink will not stay. it is only being applied to the top layers of skin Unlike a tattoo which is place several layers under the top. what your friend has done is damaged the skin. Ball point pen ink is not like tattooing ink.
She's a liar, big time.


If that were the case, why would anyone bother wasting hundreds of dollars on tattoos?





She was either born with it or it is an actual tattoo.


Or maybe she's just stupid.
Yes, then lead to an infection, and you will eventually become a memeber of the fantastic 4, your super hero name is ';Sharpie-Girl';


Have fun.
No, pen ink only covers the top most layers of skin, which wear off fairly easily. No matter how often you draw on yourself it will always slowly wear off.
No,the ink will wash off of your skin because your skin will not hold the ink unlike a tatoo which is emnedded Into your skin
no, it doesn't. maybe her beauty mark was a tattoo. and actually you could get ink poisoning from drawing on yourself, so i wouldn't try it!
Only if you don't was you're hand. And if you don't wash you're hand's thats just... eew.
NO.
Of course not.
that girl is full of ****.


dont believe her.


soo the answer is no:)


i hope i helped
No, you would get blood poisoning first, hope my answer was helpful?
haha no she was lying!
no, but you could get ink poisoning
probably not unless you use a permanent marker?
Yeah, do it.