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Uv tattoos..advice plz
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30-09-2008 7:31pm#1
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Reporting for duty sir!:D
Ok, safe vs. unsafe - they're pretty safe, your body shouldn't actually come in contact with the ink itself as it is trapped within microspheres of a polymer, PMMA, that is regularly used in medical implants anyway. As such unless something happens to rupture these spheres the actual ink will never come in contact with your cells. As with any other ink, if you're worried about it you can always get a small test spot done before hand and check to ensure there are no abnormal reaction.
As for getting one in Ireland I bought the ink myself on-line and then went around some of the studios until I found somewhere willing to work with the stuff, there was major negative rumour mongering about it 2 years ago. At this point though some of the studios may actually have some of the ink in stock already anyway, save you going to the effort of getting some yourself. Le Rack said she was getting one done in Inkwell Tattoo AFAIK and I got mine done in Wildcat Tattoo, though with my own ink supplies (ordered way too much the first time,
lol). From what I've read lot of the rumour mongering was down to the old versions of "UV inks" which were little more than boiled down versions of actual paints and so weren't suitable for surface application to the skin, let alone subdermal.:eek:
Since you're getting a moon in UV ink you could go for any of the yellows or the white ink, depending on the image you have in your head regarding how you want it to look, only the white ink will potentially be invisible without the UV and that depends on your skin tone.
If you get the white ink its visibility under normal light will also depend on the location as the scar tissue will be better masked in some places on the body than others, e.g. the 2 on my sides are even less visible than the one on my upper arm. Even the one on my upper arm has never been noticed by anyone who didn't already know about it and I have a friend who regularly tries to read it but can't see some of the words in spite of knowing they are there.
The visibility will also depend somewhat on the atmospheric conditions, cold and damp will make them more noticeable, e.g. after I've a shower they become much more visible, just like veins and arteries do, but as with the veins and arteries it's your skin, not the ink/blood vessels that's changed, and so quickly fades to back to normal visibility.
With the white ink and possibly the paler yellows it will have the appearance of taking longer to heal than other colours but this is simply because the ink is not hiding the damage that is still healing like it will with darker colours, even non-UV white ink behaves like this.0 -
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