Also known as India ink, and Chinese ink, Indian Ink is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics and comic strips. Indian ink can be used for home-made tattoos (sometimes called "stick and poke" or "prison" tattoos), by repeatedly stabbing the skin with a sharp sewing needle wrapped in ink-soaked thread. Indian ink usually is not suitable for fountain...

Tattoo inks Modern tattooing inks, (as opposed to traditional Tattoo Pigments And Dyes|tattoo pigments and dyes) are carbon based pigments that have uses outside of commercial tattoo applications. Although the United States Food and Drug Administration technically requires premarket approval of pigments it has not actually approved the use of any ink or pigments for tattooing (because of a lack of resources for such relatively minor...

UV tattoos or 'blacklight tattoos' are tattoos made with a special ink that is only visible under a blacklight . They are particularly popular in the rave scene. The tattoos can be completely invisible in normal light, although scarring from the Tattoo Machines|tattoo machine in the application process may remain, and therefore still show. A UV tattoo becomes visible under blacklight, when it glows in colors ranging from white to...