No more regrets after a failed tattoo?
A New York start-up offers an alternative to the permanent tattoo: an ephemeral tattoo that disappears after about a year.
After six years of development, Ephemeral found the formula for an ink composed of biodegradable polymers, which naturally dissolves between 9 and 15 months after injection using the same process as a conventional tattoo.
This start-up hopes to open the market to new customers.
In several regions of the world, particularly in Asia, amateur tattooists have been offering, for several years, tattoos presented as “semi-permanent”, thanks, according to their promoters, to “vegetable” ink and less penetration of the ink. needle. In practice, these tattoos, with a very rough technique, deteriorate but do not disappear completely and often cause lesions, to the point that several professional tattooists have sounded the alarm.