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Mode 1: An otherwise-invisible tatoo pigment that glows under UV light. This would give unusual tatoo effects when the user is in a suitable environment, e.g. at a party or disco with blacklight-illuminated areas. It would also allow one to have wild facial tatoos that would only show up under UV
illumination. May require an environment with otherwise-low visible illumination. May be good for performers who wish to be undistinguished at their day jobs.
Mode 2: A transgenic DNA-based tatoo application that causes skin cells to express variants of the "green fluorescent protein", which would fluoresce under UV illumination (see glowfish for an example). With correct application techniques, transgene expression may be reliably induced in skin cells, producing the desired tatoo pattern.
Human_20Bioluminescence
[waugsqueke, Jul 07 2005]
(?) Chameleon UV-Reactive Tattoo inks
http://www.blacklig...supplies-supply.htm
In 18 different colors! [Freefall, Jul 07 2005]
C'nya say ouch.
http://www.bmezine....ple/A10101/htc.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 09 2005]
My recent Black light tattoo
http://tmi.blogs.com/blog/tattoo/
Information, including an explanation as to why this ink is safe, as well as some pictures. [Frankula, Aug 09 2005]
kinda nifty
http://planetoddity...a-violet-tattooing/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 21 2010]
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1. This would require the existence of an otherwise invisible fluorescent pigment. I don't believe such a thing exists. |
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2. Is redundant with "Human Bioluminescence", found elsewhere on the bakery. |
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See link. Supposedly, their "white" is nearly invisible on light skin. I've also seen completely clear UV-reactive dyes, but they're not approved due to irritant or carcinogenic properties. |
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Whatever happened to the good 'ol days when people at least typed their idea title into google to see if it existed? Oh, that's right, those days never existed. Pity. |
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As for method 2, it ain't gonna happen. Either you'd have a fully GM'd person who would glow all over, or the body would react to the foreign proteins. |
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The Chameleon link says "some light scaring may occur". |
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"Some light scarring may occur" means that the process of poking thousands of tiny holes in your skin just might cause scarring, which would be otherwise camouflaged by the actual colored artwork of a tattoo done in pigmented ink. A tattoo done with nothing but saline in the gun would do the same thing. |
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// May be good for performers who
wish to be undistinguished at their day
jobs.// Yep, I know some of
those.
sp: tattoo, btw.
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[admin: changed spelling in title. 'tatoo' ->
'tattoo'] |
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I could see this working only if you
punctured the skin in a grid (or random)
pattern, some of which contained UV
fluorescent die, some of which didn't.
Otherwise I think you'd see the outline of
the tattoo as scar tissue. |
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You can transfect cells with a 'gene gun'
(basically a compressed-gas pistol
which fires DNA-coated gold particles
into a layer of cells). Whether this
would work on skin (with a thick, tough
dead outer layer), whether it would
cause scarring, and whether the GFP
construct would become integrated to
give stable expression, I don't know.
But one thing's for sure - you
don't want a //fluorescent die// under
your skin - it'd be all bumpy. |
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Er... dye. Brings a whole other meaning to
the phrase 'getting rolled' (as if that didn't
have enough possible interpretations
already). |
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// you don't want a //fluorescent die// under your skin - it'd be all bumpy.// |
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Some folks might not mind so much. [link] |
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I have recently had a piece done with
the white Chameleon ink, and after
three weeks of healing, it continues to
match my skin colour more and more,
letting me think that it might eventually
be invisible in day light. More details
here: tmi.blogs.com/blog/tattoo/ |
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Hey, this is baked now! [link] |
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