Wouldn’t it be great to have your tattoos done in gold, silver, platinum or other metals as a unique jewel on your skin? A company in Japan could be starting a new trend.
For the skeptics who would immediately think that injecting metal into the skin where it could easily enter the bloodstream would be some kind of health hazard, they are right. There are no tattoos in the classic sense of the word that includes coloring with gold or other metals.
If you have a design that needs to look metallic, a good tattoo artist would use other colors to make it look metallic without directly using gold or silver ink. Such colors would, in fact, be toxic to the body and not something you would like to have lodged inside your skin.
The type of tattoos are something else. These are not injected into the surface of the skin. Instead, they consist of gold or platinum sheets applied to the skin’s surface using a new technique developed by a Japanese company that I’ll introduce later in this article.
Technical
They are made up of 99.99% pure gold or platinum that is applied to the skin in various artistic and aesthetic patterns along with other elements such as colored stones and glitter powder. This way they will not constitute any allergic reaction. Of course, if you are among the minority who would have any allergic reaction to normal jewelry made of gold or platinum, you should also refrain from this “treatment”.
Unlike ordinary tattoos, they don’t last forever. The estimate is about 2-5 days. I imagine that one would have to refrain from a good Turkish bath in the period of wearing this unique and undoubtedly expensive form of jewelry. They can be removed quite easily. Since they are applied to the very surface of the skin, they will essentially disappear along with the skin cells that are shedding.
A new trend in the making?
