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How to Create Airbrush Tattoo Ink

15/05/2012 11:33

Airbrush tattoo designs have several advantages, thus now many people join to create airbrush tattoos. As a kind of temporary tattoo, it won’t last for a quite long time and less pain is involved in the giving process. You can get designs pretty similar to permanent ones.

   To apply an airbrush tattoo, of course, you should get the basic airbrush tattoo supplies at first. For your convenience, an airbrush tattoo kit will be a better choice, which contains an air compressor, needed ink, stencils etc. But actually, you can create airbrush tattoo ink all by yourself.

  Starting with basic ingredients. Firstly, you should mix 1 cup of baking soda with 2 cups of vinegar in a bowl. Wait for a little while, and then put 1/2 cup of glycerin and 2 cups of cornstarch into that. Keep stirring them till you feel it’s smooth. Continue stirring after adding 1/2 cup of water into it.

   When finish that, pour 1 cup of that into a small bottle, if you have a jelly jar, that’ll be much better. Take a full spoon of food dye to create the color you want and mix them well. Put a lid on the bottle and mark the color name. You can make different colors by following the above procedures.

  The basic airbrush tattoo colors are black, red, yellow, blue, white and green. You should get them all. For more color options, you may mix various food dye colors together. Colors like pink, orange, lilac etc are also frequent in use. You can set those airbrush tattoo ink colors similar to those supplied in online tattoo stores.

   Dark colors have different consistency with light ones, so you should get a good idea of how much water can be poured inside to create your ideal colors.

   That’s it. It’s not very difficult to create DIY airbrush tattoo ink.

For an airbrush tattoo design, you may other kinds of ink. Glowing ink will radiate Kelly light in the dark and fluorescent ink radiates blue light in the UV light. To make your airbrush tattoos last longer on the skin, you may get some finalized ink. That’s why people will buy an airbrush tattoo kit when they decide to do airbrush tattoos, saving their time and money gathering all the stuff together.

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