Tattoos?

[Sloppyjoe]

I've always wanted to get a tattoo that resembled my passion for the truth and spirituality and I was wondering if any of the avalonians had tattoos that they would like to share? Or if you'd like to help me storm ideas for what im looking for? Thanks!

[Arpheus]

I have four aways liked chinese stuff 2 dragons on on right arm one on shoulderplate,the head of a tiger on my chest was myfirst and its small just black ink hehe,and on my right leg i have a phoenix bird,i'd get more if i could but they cost too much and i am beyond poor,lots lots of stuff you could go for look up images of stuff you like online for a start maybe?

[Czarek]

if you choose red ink, that has mercury, if you choose blue, that has...

[PixieDust]

only get a tattoo that means something to you! thats always my advice.

i have a celtic knot on my upper back bellow my neck. I got it for the trinity cause 3 has always been an important number in my life. Im not catholic so its not that. it also represents my scotch/irish heritage. it was my first one

then i have an unfinished one on my side that, when finished, will reach from below my hip to under my arm pit. its a pool of water that falls into a waterfall onto my hip with a ring of murel mushrooms around it with a chain of morning glories reaching up the sides with a burst of light in the middle and above that a full moon and the leo constilation with a meteor shower coming down off my back across my ribs. Thats what it will be when its finished anyway. i will spend 1500-2000 on it by the time its done so it will take awhile haha!

every image in that tattoo means something to me so thats what i suggest to you, find symbolism that means something to you even if its not what it traditionally means. Do you have an animal that helps you? A bug? a phrase? something you've always liked (i always liked the celtic knot and i know i always will). You could always google truth and spirituality and look at the images, they might give you an idea

[Marsila]

Just keep in mind tattoos are with you for ever even when your mentality changes, and things that mean a lot now won't mean a thing later and vice versa.

so get something you think you are going to keep over a long time...however i'm not for putting anything artificial on any organ of the body including skin, specially with all the rubbish already making its way into us via food and etc.

If you are getting one make sure you know what that picture symbolizes to you. and best thing is you take that picture and find a tattoo artists convention around you, as the artists in these places usually draw the exact same thing you want.

[DoubleHelix]

Hey Sloppyjoe - Tattoos have really taken off in the last 30 years.. and it would appear people get them for all sorts of reason, some people simply like to express there passion for artwork where as others like to symbolize things they hold close to there heart!

I myself have a full back piece of a scorpion and some writing along my chest. My advice to you would be to thoroughly research what you would like to have tattooed, be very specific when talking to tattoo artists, make sure the tattoo artists have a good reputation and just take your time before rushing into things - because once its on... its on for good!

Oh and certain areas hurt more than others, loose flesh/muscle isn't so bad where as anywhere boney (chest,spine,ribs,forehead lol) is gunna hurt ! but don't let that dishearten you ! if you have an inkling to get some ink, then go for it!

[Lord Sidious]

I don't have tattoos, but if I did, these are the type I would want.

Not necessarily on these spots, but you get the general idea.

[Billy]

Yes i have one on my heart, i had it done about 13yrs ago, but i do not have a picture of it to share, But the theme is all religions together, No division, a sacred geometry mandala with hints of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, astrology etc. I asked my artist girlfriend to design it after i tried to express what i wanted, she done a great job and i took the painting to the tatooist, he also done a good job.

[Tane Mahuta]

Hey Sid, how's about this one!

[Lord Sidious]

Posted by Tane Mahuta (here)

Posted by Lord Sidious (here)
I don't have tattoos, but if I did, these are the type I would want.

Not necessarily on these spots, but you get the general idea.

Hey Sid, how's about this one!

Nah, that is a jedi weapon, not a sith weapon.
HAMC for the win this time.

[Warlock]

I have one.

Let's just say "Death" goes where ever I go.

Warlock

[Sue (Ayt)]

Reviving this very old thread, just to add this Substack info I read recently, by ROBERT YOHO, the "midwest doctor" whose Substack I subscribe to.

Wonder if others have considered the potential hazards? Also, the recent (last 30 years) push for this popular trend, just like other trends can make one wonder.

But the article is rather alarming:

412. TATTOOS ARE FILTHY WITH TOXINS, A HEALTH RISK, AND A MARKER FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE AND SOCIAL DECAY
They now disfigure 32% of American adults, up from a 3–5% baseline in the 1960s–70s; among millennials, the rate hits 46%.

ROBERT YOHO, MD
FEB 27, 2026

Summary

• Tattoo ink migrates out of the skin. Up to 32% of injected pigment reaches the lymph nodes within 6 weeks, triggers chronic inflammation, and—in two independent European studies—a 21–62% higher risk of lymphoma.

• The inks are a chemical soup: carbon black, azo dyes, titanium dioxide, and heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, and nickel. Mercury still appears in some red inks globally, though it has largely been replaced by azo compounds that degrade under ultraviolet (UV) light into carcinogenic aromatic amines.

• Surgeons routinely find swollen, blue-stained lymph glands in tattooed patients; the glands are not indifferent to the pigment—they are inflamed, enlarged, and potentially pre-malignant.

• Heavy or full-body tattooing links to borderline personality disorder (BPD), antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse, and elevated risk-taking behavior. The more body surface covered, the more severe the psychopathology traits the research documents.

• Laser tattoo removal is expensive, painful, typically requires 7–15 sessions, and is not reliably complete; it shatters ink particles into the bloodstream and lymphatics, where they disperse further into the body and degrade into toxic fragments.

• No credible evidence shows a deliberate globalist campaign to promote tattooing, though the media normalization of disfiguring body art fits the broader pattern of cultural degradation I have documented elsewhere.

Much more at link

[Mike Gorman]

I always advise to sleep on it, who are you presenting the Tattoo to, why should they be shown this picture, even great works of art can pall, we don't want to see them 24/7 do we?
This is your skin, your human interface with the world - I have spoken with many older folks with Tattoos & all of them came to regret their choice often made at an emotional time while young, I would not - but of course I place no judgment on Tattoos, I just think there are more satisfactory ways we can express our inner natures.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)
Reviving this very old thread, just to add this Substack info I read recently, by ROBERT YOHO, the "midwest doctor" whose Substack I subscribe to.

Wonder if others have considered the potential hazards? Also, the recent (last 30 years) push for this popular trend, just like other trends can make one wonder.

But the article is rather alarming:

412. TATTOOS ARE FILTHY WITH TOXINS, A HEALTH RISK, AND A MARKER FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE AND SOCIAL DECAY
They now disfigure 32% of American adults, up from a 3–5% baseline in the 1960s–70s; among millennials, the rate hits 46%.

ROBERT YOHO, MD
FEB 27, 2026

Summary
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• Heavy or full-body tattooing links to borderline personality disorder (BPD), antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse, and elevated risk-taking behavior. The more body surface covered, the more severe the psychopathology traits the research documents.
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Much more at link

Here’s an example of “heavy or full-body tattooing”, Sailor James of California. He seems pretty well-adjusted, capable, and social.

James is currently about 3 months onward from the last clips of this electric anchor-windlass installation, which began during a months long hauled-out maintenance period in Malaysia and end with successful testing at an anchorage in Thailand. Halfway round da world, mostly solo circumnav in his 30ft sailboat.

His last post, sailing with new shipmate (and old friend) Victoria, about coincides with the last clips here. He usually posts with a few months lag, at least this past year since I’ve been following his journey.

L = 35:33


I don’t have any tattoos. They mostly strike me as either “LOOK AT ME ME ME” (kids of all ages), or “MIND YER MANNERS AROUND ME” (criminals or wannabe criminals). But I note that the Dr. Yoho MD, of Sue’s above Substack blurb, only talks about negative correlations. Wuddup wi dat?


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[Sue (Ayt)]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)

I don’t have any tattoos. They mostly strike me as either “LOOK AT ME ME ME” (kids of all ages), or “MIND YER MANNERS AROUND ME” (criminals or wannabe criminals). But I note that the Dr. Yoho MD, of Sue’s above Substack blurb, only talks about negative correlations. Wuddup wi dat?

Well, in the full Substack article at the link, the good doctor also says this:

"None of this means that everyone with a tattoo is mentally ill. The majority are not. But it does mean that for a significant subgroup, tattooing serves a function analogous to self-harm—a way of managing overwhelming emotion through pain and permanent marking of the body. A physician who ignores the ink ignores a diagnostic signal."

Guess the bullet points list are just his keypoints about the risks.

[leavesoftrees]

Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss
By science reporter Jacinta Bowler
ABC Health & Wellbeing
Topic:Health
Sat 14 Feb


Researchers have uncovered 40 cases of tattoo-related uveitis throughout Australia. (Getty Images: Olga Pankova)

When chef Nelize Pretorius felt her vision blurring — first one eye and then the other — it was initially brushed off as conjunctivitis.

But when the swab came back negative, her GP and hospital doctors struggled to understand what was making her eye inflammation progressively worse.

"I could hardly see," she said.

"I was losing my vision and nobody was able to tell me why."

The cause was nothing to do with the eye itself — instead it was due to a years-old tattoo on Ms Pretorius's back.

The condition, known as tattoo-associated uveitis, can lead to permanent vision loss, glaucoma, and patients requiring immunosuppressants for the rest of their life.

"You get a tattoo, and you think the risk is that you might regret it later in life," Ms Pretorius said.

"[The real risk is] you could potentially lose your vision."

Close up of a woman with blonde hair at the beach.
Nelize Pretorius has spent thousands of dollars on treatments to protect her vision from deteriorating. (Supplied: Nelize Pretorius)
While tattoo-associated uveitis was thought to be extremely rare, research published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology has documented 40 new cases of the condition in Australia — doubling the number of published cases detected around the world since 2010.

The research, undertaken by a team of Australians, suggests this complication, while still rare given the number of people who get tattoos, may be more common than we thought.

Experts are calling for more research to understand and try to limit the vision-threatening disease.

Eyes in the immune 'crossfire'

Josephine Richards, the ophthalmologist who treated Ms Pretorius is no stranger to immune diseases.

Working in the field of eye inflammation, she's seen plenty of cases of uveitis — a dangerous condition where immune mechanisms begin to damage the eye.

It can be a complication of autoimmune arthritis, and a number of other autoimmune diseases where the immune system mistakenly attacks a part of the body.

Close up of a woman's face, with a bloodshot eye.
Nelize was unable to work at her job as a chef as her vision deteriorated. (Supplied: Nelize Pretorius)
Early symptoms of uveitis include blurred vision, light sensitivity, pain, and — if it is left untreated — glaucoma, and permanent vision loss.

"We do not know why the eye gets caught in the crossfire," Dr Richards said.

"There is something about the immune reaction that targets the eye."

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A person tattooing an arm.
While most people worry about the pain of tattooing, studies suggest that being inked may increase the chance of health issues down the track.
But in recent years, Dr Richards has seen a rise in cases of uveitis caused by injected tattoo ink — sometimes long after the tattoo was done.

Doctors can tell the uveitis is caused by a tattoo because it can look slightly raised and inflamed.

"I only became aware of it about four or five years ago, and then once I was aware of it, I had all these patients all of a sudden," she said.

And she wasn't the only eye doctor seeing this.

At a conference of ophthalmologists interested in eye inflammation, the specialists realised that many of them were being referred cases of young people with tattoos who had ended up with this same issue.

"So we said, 'OK, we better look at this and see if it's becoming more common.'

"And just since our last conference [in November 2025] we've got four more cases in Western Australia. Probably the other states have got more too."

In the recently published research, most cases of tattoo-associated uveitis needed to go on long-term treatment including immunosuppression, and only three of the patients had no vision loss throughout the treatment.

Ms Pretorius continues to use steroid eye drops, and has spent thousands of dollars on treatment. She remains in touch with Dr Richards to deal with regular flare-ups.

"What really worries us is that we're just not managing to get these people off the drugs," Dr Richards said.

"Usually with an immune disease, we treat for two years and then slowly wind back treatment and hope that the person's going to be OK off the treatment. But mostly we're not managing to wind back the treatment."

Why is this occurring?

While it is unknown exactly what causes some tattoos to produce this reaction, the new research offers some clues.

Of the people with tattoo-associated uveitis studied in the paper, it was mostly black ink tattoos that seemed to have caused the inflammation, but pink and red ink was also recorded in one case each.

In most of the cases it was also long after the tattoo had been completed, on average around a year or two, but in one case up to 35 years after the tattoo was done.

According to Dr Richards, some, but not all people, had their tattoos done overseas, including in Bali.

This makes it particularly difficult for researchers to work out what in the ink might cause this reaction.

"It is just so hard to find out what dye was used," she said.

Dr Richards said it was important to be able to identify why the dyes caused the reaction.

"I hope we will understand why it's happening and be able to identify what it is about the dyes that are triggering it and take those out of the mix," she said.

Tattooed person facing away from the camera.
While black inks seem to be present in most tattoo-related uveitis cases, it's also the most common ink used. (Getty Images: Rawpixel)
Despite the increase in cases appearing over the past few years, Nicole Carnt, an optometrist at the University of New South Wales not involved with the research, noted that it was still a rare condition given about 20–30 per cent of Australians have at least one tattoo.

"There's millions of people who have tattoos and don't have any problems," she said.

"So what is triggering this in some people?"

Both Dr Carnt and Dr Richards suggested genetic susceptibility and the microbiome might be involved.

Dr Richards said the condition looked very similar to an immune disease called sarcoidosis, where inflammatory cells clustered around the body in red swollen lumps.

"You can take a biopsy of an inflamed tattoo, and it looks almost the same as what you'd see in the chest with sarcoidosis," she said.

"With all immune diseases, there is some genetic predisposition — some way that your immune system deals with the world — and then you get exposed to something and that sets you off," she added.

Dr Richards noted that those with a familial risk of immune diseases like sarcoidosis might be more likely to have this tattoo-associated infection occur.

How to make tattoos safer

The researchers are well aware they are unlikely to convince people to stop getting inked, especially for a rare disease that may occur years down the track.

"So many people get tattooed, and I feel like it would be very hard to stop people from doing it," Dr Richards said.

Even Ms Pretorius wasn't sure if her younger self would be convinced.

"I don't know if 18-year-old Nelize would have listened but 33-year-old Nelize certainly would," she said.

Instead, Dr Richards hoped to focus on what in the inks might cause this, and trying to ensure it could be removed.

"If you were able to make it safer, that would be the best outcome for everybody."

Dr Carnt agreed, suggesting more research was needed to find out what was causing some people to be vulnerable but not others.

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Dr Richard is also working on ensuring that more people, and their doctors, know about this disease, so they can be referred and treated faster.

"It wouldn't change the decision for many people. Some of my tattooed patients that are on immunosuppression still carry on having tattoos because that is so important to them," she said.

"But I would like people to at least know."

Despite having a condition that she jokes "sounds made up", Ms Pretorius feels lucky her situation isn't worse.

"I think that my case in particular, was one of the first cases that Dr Richards had in Perth," she said.

"It's just lucky that she knew about it because if she wasn't there on that day, I may still not know what the issue is.

"There's a few people [with tattoo-associated uveitis] that lost their vision permanently, so relatively speaking I came off pretty good.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2...tion/106315444

[Victoria]

In attempting to find information on tattooing animals for identification purposes, this video was suggested by the search algorithm: Are Painless Press On Tattoos The Future of Tattooing?   https://youtu.be/91lS_8G-BxA?si=_AwgMXw0_X5YERad  

The video might be appropriate in this thread because it addresses quite a few of the questions that were posed.  Celle's entire channel is about tattoos and she goes over tattoo regrets, permanence, media influence, Gen Z, prevalence and the growing trends associated with them, as well as an interesting increase in people's interest or pursuit of tattoos just since Covid. 
  
I was a little disappointed because it doesn't really mention anything about animals, though it was recommended, as best I can tell, due to a tiny  part in which the host goes over a Georgia Tech article describing their intent of developing microneedle stickers and patches for medical purposes, pets and people who want painless tattoos. (@ minute 7:53) 

The technology Celle speaks of is congruent to microneedle patch vaccines and probably directly connected to the governmental/Pharma aim of leaving an unmistakable demarcation behind for identification of people who have been injected. (Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record- https://news.rice.edu/news/2019/quan...ination-record    and Beyond the Needle: Innovative Microneedle-Based Transdermal Vaccination- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article...0development** )


Livestock are often tattooed with simple numeric plier-press tattoos, but for small animals (at least in the US) this is not common. It seems like there should be a safer, painless and more detailed way to mark animals with necessary information than clipping ears or inserting microchips which can develop tissue damage, tumors and occasionally cancer surrounding the implants. Large 840 dangle tags are sometimes torn from animals' skin, causing ulcerated and unnecessary wounds while the smaller EID type can still cause swelling and infections.

My thoughts were that maybe a single press stamp tattoo might alleviate painful side effects and be more easily tailored, catalogued and identified- until I read the articles Sue and leavesoftrees posted.   

Summary

• Tattoo ink migrates out of the skin. Up to 32% of injected pigment reaches the lymph nodes within 6 weeks, triggers chronic inflammation, and—in two independent European studies—a 21–62% higher risk of lymphoma.

• The inks are a chemical soup: carbon black, azo dyes, titanium dioxide, and heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, and nickel. Mercury still appears in some red inks globally, though it has largely been replaced by azo compounds that degrade under ultraviolet (UV) light into carcinogenic aromatic amines.

• Surgeons routinely find swollen, blue-stained lymph glands in tattooed patients; the glands are not indifferent to the pigment—they are inflamed, enlarged, and potentially pre-malignant.

 
What does that imply for organic livestock who have been tattooed? Are the same disturbing effects discovered inside animals' bodies afterwards, with ink and inflammation migrating to lymph nodes or other delicate tissue?

 "TATTOOS ARE FILTHY WITH TOXINS, A HEALTH RISK, AND A MARKER FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE AND SOCIAL DECAY" <--- Some of the statements there are a bit myopic or not holistic in consideration of ancient to modern societal and cultural contexts. The author attempts to make allowances for the history of tattooing, but still...the people standing to be most impacted by chemicals in tattoos might not ever want to read the article due to what was chosen for its synopsized focal points.

I can see several of the sentiments being insulting to those who might have body art because tattoos are acquired for such very personal reasons, though I comprehend and truly appreciate Dr. Yoho's concern. What he is trying to emphasize societally, healthwise, regarding ink and toxins contaminating the body and altering the psyche is really important. 

The last thing anybody needs is one more way to unwittingly poison themselves- especially young people. Sad to learn this artform creates yet another unseen detrimental impact for future generations.  

 To say tattoos are "A MARKER FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE AND SOCIAL DECAY" doesn't take into consideration the reasons many people get them: as symbolic testaments to something challenging they endured or victoried over in their lives. Assignments completed, successful operations, traumas that were overcome, external limitations that have been toppled and defied, measurements of growth recorded on oneself highlighting the right to do to one's own body and life what one wishes. Yes, they are often found on people who have experienced trauma and emerged from it.

My goodness, though, the entire earth has been in a state of trauma recently and the pressures for people to conform in various ways to what is accepted or to reject what is taboo might serve to superficially hide that. 

I do realize that we are in a slow roll to social decay, (possibly perceived as a freefall in the west?) and an increase in the preponderance of tattoos across  strata might reflect that as the growing mark of objection and suffering in people (a silent cry) to the chaos in communities...or it might well reflect the vigor and adaptability of humanity and our youth to surmounting such burgeoning obstacles.

Flipping the script in a sense: when I was 19, I met a woman who was extremely smart, creative, deeply involved with opera and the classical arts and married to someone very well known in the region. I believe they held several doctorates between the two- if only to say a logical person wouldn't think she would be the type.

Yet, one day, at 76(+/-), she came home with a huge brightly colored tattoo on her forehead. Unavoidably, conspicuously, slightly off-centered on her face from her brow midway through her scalp. I remember staring at her in disbelief, thinking, "What on earth happened? What HAS she gotten into?"

...and briefly feeling like a vigilant, hyper-ventilating parent- worried about who exactly had influenced her...even the unwelcome persuasion she might then have on the other sensible adults I looked up to; family, friends, etc. (They better not get a tattoo or fall into whatever she did!) It's comical thinking back, considering I had a tattoo and was our family's perennial black sheep. She threatened the equilibrium.

There was an article* that I read not long ago which said, "it seems that older generations (mostly Generation X) still think of it as a frowned-upon act. When you Google “Iraq — Tattoos” you can read most of the articles that consider tattoos as a “Western ideology” filled with words like conspiracy, destroying the Islamic values or Arabic values, or invasive act..."  

Ironic, because older generations in America often feel that way, too, except in reverse... They blame the tattoos on other undesirable, foreign or local subculture influences. (My father's 1940's American South perspective comes to mind...he dragged me so fast out of the country we were in to have my tattoo removed before anyone he knew could see it. Poor spider, it never stood a chance. )

Tattoos can be hallmarks of ability, determination, perception, skills and group associations that are not negative.  I can scarcely count the number of truly gentle, kind-souled, empathic friends and associates who have an eye-opening number of very artistic, science oriented or spiritual tattoos...more the sensitive and caring type to have them, than the callous individual in my experience. It's not the stereotype and their lives are not in disarray. 

I only suppose that some have had to gather everything within them to break from deleterious families, circumstances and environments, and so carry a testament to their lessons, triumphs and journeys on what belongs to them and them alone. They stand well on their own and present respectably.

Then, there is the pushing of pain limits and the surge of dopamine, natural opiates, adrenaline and endorphins while/after being tattooed which can be  addictive, so that is a real thing- and probably does correlate addictive personalities with other issues, especially for people who are covered in tattoos and always planning the next piece, piercing, chance for body suspension or modification. 

I remember the thrill of realizing one can subdue pain completely, mind over matter. Adrenaline over it, anyway.

Many who are tattooed will be adventure seekers and death defyers regularly looking for their next physical challenge. Living their lives as vigorously and boldly as possible. There is a different mindset there, but it is not always (or even often) negative, or morbid. More, taking life and everything it throws by the ...horns. 

 
The highlighted points that preface the article also disregard links to deeper cultural associations, despite modern day concepts, entirely: tribal significance and historical or ancestral heritage which combine distinct symbolism have traditionally been exhibited on the skin and continue to be so for people whose lineage carries great significance in their lives. (Picts, Celts, Scythians, Norse, Anglo Saxons, the Rus Vikings, Baiyue, Sac Yant, Samoa, Maori, Khorasan, Bakhtiari, Kerman, Inuit,  Cree, Algonquin, Haida, Cherokee, Hualapai, Yupik, etc.)

In this global village, we all descend from somewhere. Increasingly, our ideas of identity, purpose and family are painted by mixed genetics, cultures and traditions...so too, our outward expressions of them are varied. Spirituality, rites of passage and social standing are still prominently enfleshed via tattoos.

None of those reasons for getting a tattoo indicate psychological disturbance, they are often hallmarks of experiences that were documented and/or mastered with the courage and perseverance of a warrior during a colorful life, resiliently and passionately lived. 

--- If one chooses to be tattooed, there ARE options for supposedly healthier ink these days that are tested for heavy metals and toxins, or which boast organic pigments, being chemical free with increased safety/sterility.

Some that I found are below:

Quantum Ink (Per their site:  Organic Pigment:
We use powder pigments, sourced from the earth. None of our pigments ever come from animals.Heavy metal tested and meets European REACJH  standards): https://quantumtattooink.com/blog-ev...qsjpp_iJ9FUAni


Solid Ink (https://thesolidink.com/pages/info#:...erization)(Per their site: Vegan 100% No animal testing or animal products use in Solid InkDoes NOT contain carcinogenic, reprotoxic or mutagenic substances.)


Eternal Ink (https://www.eternaltattooink.com/  and  https://www.starnesink.com/eternal-ink-msds): (Per their site: The ink formulation combines organic pigments, deionized water, and hamamelis water, creating a blend that delivers vibrant colors while maintaining skin compatibility.The company's commitment to ethical practices extends to their vegan-friendly formulation, which contains no animal by-products and involves no animal testing...Medical-grade sealed bottles preserve ink integrity from first use to last, preventing contamination and maintaining sterility throughout the bottle's lifespan. Regular quality evaluations ensure consistent compliance with safety standards...)


* https://medium.com/@ahmedwindi94/our...s-1f1dc40f38ac