WOW I love this!!
Yeah it looked great right after it was fine. Sadly none of the UV ink is visible now
Ok, UV ink tattoo is the first tat that I can see myself getting.
Biovoid, congratulations on all your successful upgrades and healing! All looks fantastic
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I really liked that one too
HOWEVER
That’s the only reason i didn’t “promote” it, it’s basically a temporary tattoo 
Really cool for about two weeks
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I’ve got hand poke tattoo with white ink over tattooed skin that was done September 25. Then I put VivoKey apex under it few weeks after. The idea was it looked slightly noticeable, when I pay attention on it. I think it turned out great 
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Few years in, I’m still shiny
I’m wondering if I’m just lucky. The only thing I did differently was I “activated“ the ink before putting it in.
I spent about five minutes or so with the ink under black light, shaking it around and making sure that the whole thing glowed up nice and good, of course it’s just UV so it didn’t take the charge but I Taught it what to do
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I really want a hand poke. That looks great.
Wow, nailed it. Not obvious at a glance; doesn’t distract from the larger piece. But very much there! Love it
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It really does! And heals fast and easy. The result is always great
Mine was in my hand and my body just pushed it out or absorbed the ink. I have an inch on my finger that I’ve had to retouch about 6 times. My body just doesn’t want hand tattoos
This tattoo is 4 years old with no corrections.
It became a little blurry after healing, but it doesn’t change through time.
I wish I could get something like that. My hands just didn’t co-operate with ink.
I can share a bit on laser branding. Did a small test in 2017 using a 445 nm 2.5W homebuilt diode CNC laser. No pain during the procedure, more afterwards. Surface and subsurface scattering will diffuse the lines, and focusing precisely on the surface of the skin is hard.
I still would like to explore this further in the future - this might be a cheap and easy way to get precise DIY brandings. Maybe compensate the focus to fit the curvature of the body (even doing realtime adjustments?). Also immobilizing the body is quite important.
Nowadays, the branding is completely faded and only acts as a sunburn indicator.
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what about clamping and stretching the skin taught. maybe coloring the skin black first as well?
I would not want to color the skin, I fear that the pigement or the burn products of that pigment might be toxic for the wound. Maybe pressing the skin to a piece of laser-transmissive glass?
what about iodine? something that can both disinfect and temporarily darken the skin?
Obligatory reminder…
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Right, but my theory is darkening the area of the skin with something that wont contaminate the wound, prior to the laser would achieve better results
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Coloring damaged is unpredictable. As scar tissue is forming it will reject all pigments. Iodine can make the healing process longer, as a result it can have darker pegmentation, but it will look “dirty”, the color won’t be even. Cutting scars are sometimes colored by rubbing tattoo pigments in it, but results are unpredictable as well. The best way to make scar look contrast is scaring over tattooed skin. Another method is to scratch the scar while healing to make the scar grow and be convex, but it can make it look ugly as a result. Scarification is rather complex type of modification.
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