New York fan Brandon Soler is showing his love for the Big Apple hoops squad Friday by permanently etching a blue and orange ...

In the past few decades, tattoo ink manufacturing has shifted from individual ... Regulations in Europe prohibit the use of copper-containing pigment blue 15 and pigment green 7, which my work ...

A temporary tattoo might be the only way to get a blue or green tattoo in Europe for a while. A recent ban on some ink ingredients with links to potential health effects has wiped out lots ...

Tattoo ink manufacturers formulate their products using ... The phthalocyanine compounds pigment blue 15 and pigment green 7 are among the only, and thus most widely used, blue and green pigments ...

When I first applied the tattoo, it appeared with a light aqua-blue ink. It was fun to watch the color gradually change over time. I quickly became enamored with the way the tattoo looked — in ...

A batch of blue being brewed at World Famous Tattoo Ink, where chemists have worked to find a suitable substitute for the blue dye that was banned.Credit...Juan Diego Reyes for The New York Times ...

Scientists at Binghamton University (State University of New York) have analyzed nearly 100 different tattoo inks and found that the manufacturers' ingredient labels (when used) are often ...

Radiation setup typically involves marking treatment areas with permanent black or blue tattoo ink to ensure correct alignment of the radiation machine over the weeks-long duration of treatment.

If tattoo ink did cause cancer, you’d expect people who had more of their body tattooed to be at greater risk. Crucially, the authors did not find this. Even if the data were more convincing ...