Amazon sells it.
Can i derail this topic for a sec? no? okay.
I have done some test spot tattoos ive done with strontium alluminate.
I disinfected and washed the particles and then mixed them with invisible UV tattoo ink.
@Spyfoxls has some way more impressive ones.
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This is pretty much what Iām thinking about - afaik, SuperLuminova is based on strontium aluminate.
Looks pretty shiny under your skin, this is just great! Did you charge it with an UV flashlight before taking the picture, or is it actually that strong?
Aaaaand, since youāre already playing the guinea pig (thanks for that 
) - how long have you got it, and did you have any problems? Like, inflammation, unusual itching, anything that immediately indicates that this stuff shouldnāt be in your body?
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Heya,
i charged it with my phone flashlight. the image was done just a few days after i poked it.
I poked them on first of november i think.
and yes, my body did not like it alot ^^ but im also really bad at tattooing. poked so hard that the individual needles bent.
it itched a bit and was kinda swollen
i need to shoot a image how it looks today.
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Haha, so okaaaay, poking needles through skin like that might be irritating
But if thatās just some kind of first reaction and not like hellish inflammation, festering and your body actively trying to remove the pigments again, I might risk it 
So theyāre about 1.5 months old nowā¦ any decrease in intensity by now? From what I read, at least some strontium aluminate based pigments might lose a bit of their glow when in touch with water, thatās why I was thinking about mixing them with something like shellac first before dispersing them with water or inkā¦
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This image is from today.
yeah it fades alot in the first week but then stopped an d stayd the same brightness.
also i did not treat the particles at all. was reading that they behave like ceramic particles and dont really react with water. at some point someone sent me an article that told the opposite and that it decomposes in water.
here are the scars.
oh and @Pilgrimsmaster
i think the time has come to move our conversation to another place 
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True - we used our special cyborg skill again
Thanks a lot! It still looks really good, and the scars are not that bad (compared to first day, especially).
Iām really curious if I can avoid the initial fading somehowā¦ I know someone who has close contact to one of those insanely expensive swiss watchmakers who actually work with those pigments, so I hope I can gather some more information about it (and maybe even get the pigments that way).
But seeing your results, Iām pretty optimistic and totally willing to try it out - by being a tiny bit more reckless than me, you really helped me a lot 
Thank you
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Depends on which watch obviously, but I was under the impression the really nice and expensive one weāre using Tritium
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Haha, yeah, I didnāt even think about the relpy side of that threadā¦
Done, and @LordSethos2000 I hope you dont mind this here in your thread, let me know if you want me to relocate it
It just simply what we do, implants and derail threads.
In thought the same, BUT havenāt done any research, so 
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Iāve seen some rolex submariner 1680 original spare parts on eBay, both the hands and the watch face had the tritium inserts
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The more traditional (aka boring 
) ones might still do 
The ones I was talking about are https://www.urwerk.com/ and I think they use SuperLuminova - not totally sure, but I know a lot of those high-price swiss watchmakers use it.
Yeaaahā¦ thanks for giving us a new home here in this thread
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A few watches have small tritium filled glass vials on the hands and dial but most high end ones use Superluminova.
IIRC, the tritium stuff was mostly used for military watches. But from what Iāve heard, G Shocks are the most common in that particular field nowadays.
Maybe I should get myself both a tritium watch and a G Shock, however I donāt have any desire to enlistā¦
And Iām now contemplating the idea of Superluminova tattoos. Although Iād rather convince Amal to upload me to a Boston Dynamics Atlas. Shouldnāt be too different from what he did for @Pilgrimsmasterā¦
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I think the initial loss in brightness might be due to the particles that didnāt get into the right depth and got shedded with skin again.
Also not sure if i mentioned yet but it also seems to work to rub the sterilised pigment into a fresh scarification. And leave the scab until healed. This uses quite alot of pigment though and quite a bit is shedded with the scab. Just thought of this since those were actually my very first tries. Depending of the depth and width there might be inconcistencies in glow power afterwards though depending on how it healed.
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I thought about this as well, especially since I have a good (and adventurous) scarification artist who might be more willing to try that out than my tattoo artist (and my tattooing friend is actually a bit too lazy and not really willing to cover my whole body )ā¦ but when I think about my first two scarifications, they bled quite a bit and were quite āwetā for the first days, so I would be afraid that lots of pigments would be washed outā¦
How did you treat your scars afterwards? Did you cover them? And if you say those were your first tries, how do they look now (like, do they still glow nicely, did you tolerate the pigments well enough, did it cause any problems)?
Might very well be that wayā¦ I didnāt think of that, but yeah, ānormalā tattoos lose quite a bit of pigments as well during the first few days.
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Little update on this one - my artist is not really recommending trying this out
In Germany, Tattoo artists currently face a lot of trouble because of inks that are suddenly deemed āunsafeā by the authorities, so there is little chance that anyone would use some sort of āselfmadeā ink. So, it would definitely come down to self-poking or motivating my slightly lazy friend
Plus, it is not really sure how safe this stuff is in the long run. And the manufacturers of the pigments wonāt tell you itās safe to get them under your skin, because they can get into serious trouble when doing so.
Buuuutā¦ I found a shop that sells lots of glowy stuff, including pigments (and they are even waterproof!), and I sent them a mail where I said Iād like to use their pigments for bodypainting, and if it would be dangerous if I had some little sore spots or tiny wounds or anything like thatā¦ Letās see what theyāll answer
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I love how that gif was literally what popped into my head Lol
Stand alone like that noā¦ Iām all for UV to enhance ink. But as someone whoās heavily tattedā¦ i dont see the point of invisible tattoos. 
I like the idea of having some tattoos only show under specific circumstances (being UV lighting in this case). But I also prefer always visible tattoos of course (D-10 for my 4th one 
).
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