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Your body sheds skin at different rates. Tattoos are essentially placed about halfway through your dermis, I believer there are something around 17 layers and a good tattoo hits halfway. Further down and it would be difficult to see (and probably open up pain/health complications), higher up it would slough off.
Places where your body replaces skin at higher rates such as the soles of your feet, palms of your hand, elbows etc will mean that the tattoo will have less to 'adhere' to and ink goes a-wandering. This isn't exactly medically or scientifically accurate but in two paragraphs that is why tattooing these areas won't really give you one for the ages. Even knuckle tattoos tend to fade and look shitty after a while.