NOW YOU CAN GET A TATTOO - NEW TATTOO INK WILL ONLY LAST FOR ONE YEAR

The thing that puts many of us off tattoos is the thought of what it might look like to have a skull saying ‘Born to Lose’ on your arm, aged 70.

But a new tattoo ink, developed by New York company Ephemeral, is designed to last a much more manageable period - one year, Robwaugh gathered.

The ink uses smaller molecules than normal tattoo ink, and can be ‘flushed out’ by a tattoo removal solution, which is tattooed over the design a year later.

The new ink is currently being tested on pigs, and won’t be available until 2017 at the earliest - but has already attracted interest from inventors.

The invention came about after CEO Seung Shin had a tattoo - and then had to have it removed by laser surgery.

Shin said, ‘Ephemeral was born through a personal experience of mine. Ever since I was young, I was always interested in tattoos but my parents were extremely against it, mostly because of its permanence.’

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