White Ink Tattoos

Will They Last?

While White Ink Tattoos Are Popular Your skin May Not Be The Right Type To Wear Them

Why Is That?

White Tattoo Ink Is Made From Titanium Dioxide - TiO2) - A Compound That Is In Many Things You Use Everyday.

What Is In White Ink?

TiO2 can be found in foods as a preservative and anti-caking agent. It is sourced from nature and known in its raw form as RUTILE

What Is In White Ink?

While most aspects of these tattoo pigments are considered inert TiO2 is known to be an irritant. That means your tattoo can suffer from a delayed healing or increased scarring if you decide to get one.

What Is In White Ink?

The ink used on your skin is mixed with sterile water and alcohol most commonly) but there can also be various surfactants used to modify the pigments characteristics

What Is In White Ink?

Are Surfactants Bad?

The main ingredients of modern life detergents are surfactants, long-term use cause skin irritation effect and lead to some degree of damage. After the surfactantsenter into the human body, they damage the enzyme activity and thus disrupt the body's normal physiological function. Surfactants have some toxicity and may accumulate in the human body, so it is difficult to degrade

OV Stepanets; GY Solov’eva; AM Mikhailova; AIKulapin, J.Analy. Chem., 2001, 56, 290.

Now You Are

Informed

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THEY DONT LAST

These tattoos look amazing when fresh but once they heal you wont get the same dramatic effect.

Why Don't They Last?

Tattoo pigment is inserted UNDER your natural skin's coloring during a tattoo procedure. This means you have to look through your skins coloring before you can see the white ink.

Visible?

Why Don't They Last?

Because your skin pigment (known as melanin) absorbs light to fight off UV damage to your cells, the amount of light bouncing off the tattoo pigment decreases the darker your skin tone.

Visible?

Why Don't They Last?

Even if your skin is very light in color the undertones you carry can influence how well the colors are transmitted when enough light actually hits the tattoo pigment in your skin once it heals.

Visible?

What Can You Expect?

Regardless of the outcome many people enjoy getting white ink tattoo. These people who do choose to adorn their body with such artwork can expect...

A Slowly Fading Memory

You can get a touch up or rework the entire thing but white ink becomes more like your natural skin tone the longer it is in you.