"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. The ephemeral tattoo, which costs between $175 and $450, can be a step towards people deciding to get a permanent tattoo, according to the young entrepreneur. "What we're doing is we're opening up the possibility of tattoos for a whole new clientele that previously wasn't getting a permanent tattoo," says Sakhai. For now, only black ink is available, but other colors are expected. The Ephemeral tattoo parlor opened in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn at the end of March. Instead, the lines remain crisp and the designs fade evenly, he says. Sakhai assures that, like permanent tattoos, the ephemeral tattoos do not dilute or blur sporadically over time. They only used products approved by the US' Food and Drug Administration regulator. Sakhai developed the formula in a laboratory in Milford, Connecticut, just north of New York, in collaboration with dermatologists. Jokingly describing himself as a "guinea pig," Sakhai points to several places on his arms where he says he used to have tattoos. 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.
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"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. Neither a permanent mark nor a paper transfer: a New York start-up has created the first tattoos that fully disappear after a while, aiming to open the body inking market to new clientele.
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