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'This really expands the possibilities for the traditional community,' he says.Įphemeral has recruited tattoo artists that are more used to inking permanent designs, such as 29-year-old Marissa Boulay, who draws the 'M' on Glasgow's forearm, which also features permanent tattoos.

Tattoo artist Marissa Boulay gives Abigail Glasgow an ephemeral tattoo in New York The endeavor required 50 different formulations before he found the right one, a number of which Sakhai tested on himself. So he set out to create a temporary tattoo made of ink that fades. Josh Sakhai, one of the three co-founders of Ephemeral, was a student at New York University when he wanted to get a permanent tattoo but was 'too scared' because of how his Iranian-origin family might react.

#EPHEMERAL TATTOOS NEAR ME SKIN#

'It's going to fade so I'm not too concerned,' says Abigail Glasgow with a mischievous look in her eye, as the first letter of her fiance's name is tattooed on her forearm.įor years, amateur tattoo artists around the world-mainly in Asia-have offered 'semi-permanent' tattoos, claiming that using vegetable ink and less penetration of the skin will cause them to disappear eventually.īut in practice, the tattoos tend only to deteriorate, without vanishing completely and often causing lesions, to the point that several professional tattooists have sounded the alarm.Īfter six years of development, the company Ephemeral has created an ink composed of biodegradable polymers that dissolves naturally between nine and 15 months after the same inking process as a conventional tattoo.

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