{"id":25565,"date":"2016-05-11T01:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-tattoo-ink-disappears-in-a-year-can-be-removed-on-demand"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:09","slug":"new-tattoo-ink-disappears-in-a-year-can-be-removed-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-tattoo-ink-disappears-in-a-year-can-be-removed-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"New tattoo ink disappears in a year, can be removed on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone who has ever gotten, or even thought about getting a tattoo<\/a> had heard a snarky warning from others about how they\u2019re forever<\/i>. Well, maybe they aren\u2019t. A company called Ephemeral has designed a two-part system for tattoos that last about a year. It\u2019d probably be a smart move for people who have trouble with commitment.<\/p>\n

Traditional tattoos are permanent because the ink particles embedded in the skin are too large for the immune system to clear. Existing methods of tattoo removal with lasers essentially break the particles down until they can be easily cleared. Of course, it really, really hurts. Ephemeral has engineered a two-part system<\/a> consisting of dye molecules encapsulated in a protective structure and a removal solution.<\/p>\n

The protective coating of the dye molecules is engineered to last about one year, at which time it starts breaking down. The tattoo will begin fading rapidly at that point, though it\u2019s not clear how long it will take to fully disappear. The removal solution can be added to the skin at any time by a tattoo machine over top of the Ephemeral tattoo to instantly break down the coating and \u201cerase\u201d parts or all of a tattoo.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who has ever gotten, or even thought about getting a tattoo had heard a snarky warning from others about how they\u2019re forever. Well, maybe they aren\u2019t. A company called Ephemeral has designed a two-part system for tattoos that last about a year. It\u2019d probably be a smart move for people who have trouble with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67525,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565\/revisions\/67525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}