[hackpgh-discuss] Re: interesting tattoo for the biohackers

  • From: "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:18:25 -0500

On 2/2/16 12:01, Steven Owens wrote:

I wonder how they did the glow in the dark effect safely.

It isn't glow-in-the-dark, it's ink that reacts to UV light as well as visible light. Some of the ink I have glows under UV, some doesn't. Some tattoo artists won't use UV-reactive ink for a variety of reasons, but I don't think any of them are scientifically valid.


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