Do you know why tattoos don?t vanish from the skin like normal ink marks? It?s because of the way a tattoo is done. A normal mark on the skin is made right on the surface and peels off with the dead body cells. But the tattoo is done in a deeper layer of the skin known as the dermis, which remains unchanged throughout a man?s life. The ink is also special and does not dissolve in the body easily, making the tattoo permanent.