Are You Aware Of Vegan Friendly Tattoos?

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By Anjana Ns

Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:49

Vegans would not only want to eat pure vegetarian food but would also wish to have an animal free lifestyle. And for those dedicated vegetarians, having a tattoo containing animal substance would seriously be a turn-off. But now, they need not have to worry as the vegan tattoo is available in many reputed parlors across the world. Vegan tattoos are the tattoos that contain absolutely animal free ingredients (particularly the vegan tattoo inks).

While the normal tattoo inks contain glycerin, animal fats, bone black (made of burning animal bones down to charcoal or from the resin of shellac bugs) and after treatment solutions like beeswax, lanolin, all of which are not vegan.

Though many vegan friendly ink brands are available there are a few disadvantages -

Brands like Starbrite, Stable, Eternal, and SkinCandy are popular and eco friendly. But even the best of the best tattoo artists use only those brands which they feel are easy to design. And not only that, many tattoo artists feel that vegan friendly ink quality not to be as good as the normal tattoo inks which is why they don't recommend them to their clients.

It is not only the tattoo artists but even the clients feel that the vegan ink tattoo not to look as good as the normal ones. They feel that vegan ink tattoos do not deliver the best art.

Due to all these lack of information, the customers just view the ingredients on the ink bottle and come to an understanding that the product is vegan free. But many brands, who claim to be vegan tattoos, are fake and do not offer the required pigment quality.

Not just that, there is a whole lot of difference in price when it comes to vegan and non-vegan inks.

With all these unanswered problems, many are in to a confusion as to which one to use and discard. Having said, it is up to the vegans to decide if they would want a good art inked on their body or an art designed by these eco friendly tattoo inks.