Soot tattoo
Soot tattoos are carbon stains made by inserting soot into the dermis layer of the skin via a drug injection. A drug user may try to sterilize the tip of a needle with a flame, leaving a small amount of soot on the outside of the needle.[1] An injection can carry this residual carbon into the skin, leaving a mark known as a soot tattoo.[2]
Soot tattoos are an accidental
cutaneous condition. This is distinct from the intentional practice of a tattoo artist creating a tattoo with a design in the skin using soot as a pigment in tattoo ink
.
See also
- List of cutaneous conditions
References
- ISBN 978-1-4200-4211-5.
- ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1.
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