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Appointment required. Must sign waiver. Must use all treatments on same area. Consultation required; non-candidates and other refund requests will be honored before service provided. Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as gift(s). May be repurchased every 90 days. Valid only with LB and Trey.
Skilled body artists create beautiful, permanent images on the skin
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$171 for two hours of tattoo services $300
Tattoo Ink: Making a Lasting Mark
After picking a design and
seeing it take shape, nobody wants their new tattoo to wash away. Check
out Groupon’s examination of how the ink manages to last.
Insoluble
tattoo ink, which consists of pigment suspended in a carrier solution
such as water or alcohol, isn’t a modern marvel. Archaeologists have
found tattoos on Egyptian mummies that date back roughly 4,000 years. In
so doing, they’ve revealed two things: that the practice of tattooing
has existed for millennia, if not longer, and that a single tattoo can
last a pretty darn long while. To achieve that permanence, the ink
distributes colored metal salts, vibrant plastics, or even vegetable
dyes evenly within the solution, making it easy to insert into the
second layer of skin, roughly a millimeter below the surface, where it
remains safe from the upper layer’s constant flaking. Like paint,
today’s inks can be mixed and diluted into a spectrum of shades and
colors—even glow-in-the-dark varieties for tattooing a map of the route
to the bathroom from your bed onto your arm.
Along with the
Egyptians, other historical humans had their own tattooing methods.
Inuit tribes, for instance, would pierce their skin with needles and
draw soot-covered threads underneath the skin. Modern techniques are
much safer, although the process still carries risk. Some people may
exhibit allergic reactions to certain pigments, and some pigments can
cause irritation in sunlight. If you commonly have reactions to cosmetic
products, look into using hypoallergenic inks before going under the
gun.