Tattooed With The Ink Made From Loved One's Hair

If you love the idea of constantly keeping a loved one close to you, then you’ll be happy to hear you can now get at tattoo made from their hair

Swiss company SKIN46 has developed a way to make tattoo ink from human material, allowing you to get a tattoo made from a family member, friend, loved one or pet's hair.

The first woman to get a tattoo is a model called Makani, whose ink was infused with cat hair from her cat, Gizmo.

Makani and her cat, Gizmo (Image: SKIN46)

Andreas Wampl, found of SKIN46, said: “The idea of SKIN46 tattoo ink starts some seriously spirited conversations

“Some think it's offensive, while a huge amount of tattoo lovers thinks it's an amazing concept.

“We expect this to draw a lot of attention both to our crowdfunding campaign and to SKIN46 in general. Tattooing needs this kind of fresh spirit.”

Makani and her tattoo (Image: SKIN46)

To make the ink, SKIN46 extracts carbon from the hair and through 65 steps, converts it into tattoo ink.This results in a completely unique tattoo ink, based on the person or animal whose hair it is made from.

so for Makani is the only person to be tattooed in this way (Image: SKIN46)

So far Makani and Andreas are the only people to be tattooed in this way.But SKIN46 will soon begin crowdfunding on Kickstarter , opening the door for others to get their loved one’s hair tattooed.