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Airbrush tattoo ink is significantly different from regular tattoo ink. The difference stems primarily from the difference between an airbrushed tattoo and a traditional one. You see, airbrushing is a technique whereby pressurized air is mixed with the ink, creating a fine mist when released. It is used in combination with stencils to make finely detailed paintings on just about anything from canvas to cars. It can also be used to create temporary airbrush tattoos, or TATs.
These temporary tattoos are normally drawn with the aid of stencils. The art of airbrushing is somewhere between spray-painting, drawing, and painting with a brush. Unlike spray painting, it can produce extremely fine details, but unlike drawing and painting, you never physically touch the surface you’re working on. This leads to a brushless appearance that is one of the primary appeals to airbrushing.
This process of laying airbrush tattoo ink on the skin without touching it with anything but the paint and some air stands at stark odds with traditional tattooing. In a traditional tattoo, there are needles. The needles puncture your skin… repeatedly. It’s like being aerated. Only instead of removing small core shaped sections of your skin, a tattoo gun inserts ink under the skin. Why put the ink under the skin? What makes tattooing permanent is the “inlay” effect, that’s why. The outer layer of your skin is constantly re growing itself. this means if you have something underneath it… you know, like your body, it is protected by a constantly regenerating barrier. So if the rigors of life don’t exactly pass a tattoo by, they touch it more lightly than they do the surface of your skin.
A tattoo drawn with airbrush tattoo ink rather than implanted with regular needles looks like a new tattoo when it is finished. The difference is a tattoo that’s airbrushed on will only last a matter of days, rather than the lifetime an ordinary tattoo lasts.
Airbrush tattoo ink itself is at the same time remarkably similar to ordinary ink; and distinct from it. It is similar in that the same dyes are used in both. Unlike canvass, the human body is a living medium, and the ink can react with the body and cause issues. This limits the use of certain dyes, because they could be harmful. So the black tattoo ink you see probably is using identical pigments as a black airbrush ink.
That’s how they are similar, consistency is the biggest difference between them. Airbrush ink must be thinner than other inks. While tattoo ink passes through a needle to be implanted under the skin; airbrush ink turns into a fine mist for application. This misting means that the ink must have an even consistency, and must be thin enough to form the necessarily tiny vapor droplets.
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