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Show COLORED INKS IN TATTOOINO. English Expert Now Dosa Work In Many Colore. In an article on the subject of tattooing, tat-tooing, In Pearson's, the marvelous results obtained by an English expert are thus described: "Until comparatively recently only two colors, Indigo blue (or India Ink black) and red were used lu tattooing, but a Japanese increased the ntinibtr by discovering a permanent brows, and Sutherland Mtirclonnld has no added four moro to tho lint, so that be works with no fewer thuti seven colors col-ors altogether. Tho difficulty haa b m to get a color that will hold; any color can bo pricked Into the human skit, but those made from mlnorala will til set up, sooner or laler, a state of Inflammation In-flammation of tl.o skin and the color will be forced out nguln, leaving only an ugly scar to mark the a pot. "Iiut by careful experiments on hit own body, experiments which hare been going on for years now, he his been able to produce a very beautiful green, a permanent ultramarine blue, a lavender, and, moat difficult of all, a rich yellow, all not only perfoctly harmless to the most delicate skin, but colore that will hold, and by blending blend-ing some of these together he Is able to produce brilliant efecta, which to the uninitiated would appear to be altogether Impossible. "Tattooing In ao many colore, wllh all their graduatlona of ahadlng, Is a lengthy process Mr. Macdonald will apend a mattur of alxty or aoventy hours In completing a design to corsr a man's chest not at a etrolch, of courae, but working two or throe houra a day for twenty or thirty daya." |
