‘I’ve got you under my skin’: You can soon get tattooed with ink made from a loved one

The inventor has already produced some made from his daughter and son

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A Swiss startup is producing a tattoo ink made from biogenic material, allowing people to have carry someone they love quite literally under their skin.

“People are made of many things, with one of the most abundant and important being carbon,” producers Skin 46 explain.

“Realizing this fact, and carbon's potential as a tattoo ink, [we] came up with a very remarkable and patented concept, taking the carbon from a person's hair and using it to create a safely-made tattoo ink.”

It might sound creepy, but thousands of people get their loved one or best friend’s name tattooed, so it perhaps isn’t such a bizarre gesture.

“I'll soon have the world’s first tattoo made with Skin46 connective tattoo ink and I couldn't be more pleased,” commented Andreas Wampl, inventor of the product and founder of the company.

“The ink is made of my daughter and son. It is very exciting and extremely emotional for me to be skin deep and eternally connected with my children. Our plan is to sh ow the tattoo world that this unique ink is a professional and working ink. We even have a famous European tattoo parlour and tattooist on board to help promote the idea and encourage people to explore how amazing it is.”

The startup plans to crowdfund its invention in the first quarter of 2016, with a view to producing it on a large scale.

“As every single ink is made separately in an own unique process and the capacity of our prototype test laboratory is very limited, we need budget to scale up the business model,” Wampl said. There are millions of tattoo lovers and our target is to make many of them connected.”