

I weighed a few options, landing on something subtle yet an obvious call to my geek lifestyle. Since this tattoo was made to fade, I figured the more personality the better. ("I feel like you owe it to the people you’re tattooing to share that information," Hartman adds.)Īs someone who already has two permanent tattoos, Ephemeral seemed considerably less risky. However, Ephemeral chooses to remain tightlipped about their ink ingredients, maintaining that it’s FDA-approved.
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Sakhai likened Ephemeral's proprietary ink technology to the way sutures work: Where permanent tattoo ink particles aggregate in the skin in a way that your body can’t remove, Ephemeral tattoo ink is biodegradable, and can be removed by the body. Why should my Ferrari look like everyone else's? Ephemeral's semi-permanent tattoos seemed like a nice half-step to more ink (or bumper stickers) on mine.īut I had so many questions-primarily, "Where the hell does the ink go once the tattoo fades?" Given that bumper stickers say a lot about that Ferrari’s owner, I had to kindly disagree. “You wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari,” he says. My boyfriend has none, and yet we make things work.

I have a few permanent tattoos-a pair of interlocked pinkies and a golf pencil. Sakhai says he felt alienated by traditional tattoo shops and, combined with a less-than-comfortable and ugly tattoo-removal experience, he helped start Ephemeral in 2014. Josh Sakhai, a co-founder of Ephemeral, says he created the company as an act of rebellion to the conservative culture he grew up in.

Not only do Ephemeral's tattoos go on with an actual tattooing needle, they last anywhere from nine months to a year rather than a day or two-and cost anywhere from $190 to $550. WHEN I first heard of Ephemeral Tattoo, I thought it was just like any other temporary tat-fun little "tattoos" made of synthetic polymers that rub off with alcohol.
