I looked through the "Ultimate Tattoo Thread" and couldn't really find what I was looking for, so I thought this would be a good place to ask my question.
I am really wanting to get a tattoo that symbolizes my passion for living a humane lifestyle, and I'm having a really hard time finding a tattoo parlor in my area that has vegan ink. There are some people on tattoo forums who swear up and down that there is no such thing is vegan ink, even if the companies claim to be vegan. Which is making me even more confused.
There's a website for vegan tattoo enthusiasts that has a list of vegan-friendly parlors in the U.S., but of course, nothing in my area. I saw on a website somewhere that Iron Age Tattoo in St. Louis will use vegan ink on request, but I can't find anything to verify that on their site. I'll probably go ahead and call them.
Thoughts on vegan tattoo ink? Does anyone know of a vegan-friendly parlor in the Midwest, preferably Missouri? I've half-considered getting a tattoo with regular ink, but I am very uneasy about the possibility of having charred animal bone and animal fat in my skin forever. -- Yep. Common ingredients in tattoo ink. They tend to use bone charcoal for black ink apparently. Yikes.
I am really wanting to get a tattoo that symbolizes my passion for living a humane lifestyle, and I'm having a really hard time finding a tattoo parlor in my area that has vegan ink. There are some people on tattoo forums who swear up and down that there is no such thing is vegan ink, even if the companies claim to be vegan. Which is making me even more confused.
There's a website for vegan tattoo enthusiasts that has a list of vegan-friendly parlors in the U.S., but of course, nothing in my area. I saw on a website somewhere that Iron Age Tattoo in St. Louis will use vegan ink on request, but I can't find anything to verify that on their site. I'll probably go ahead and call them.
Thoughts on vegan tattoo ink? Does anyone know of a vegan-friendly parlor in the Midwest, preferably Missouri? I've half-considered getting a tattoo with regular ink, but I am very uneasy about the possibility of having charred animal bone and animal fat in my skin forever. -- Yep. Common ingredients in tattoo ink. They tend to use bone charcoal for black ink apparently. Yikes.