Many dream of making a tattoo, but some are afraid of the reactions of their relatives, while others understand that it's not very practical on the body for a rest of themselves, as they like it today, and tomorrow looks will change. In this situation, flash tattoos will be helped.
Temporary sketches in the hands, thigh, neck and other parts of the body are becoming increasingly popular. They like and young generation, and adults. In the article we will give all the information you need to know about temporary tattoos. You will learn how there is a flash tattoo, how to apply them, how long can you walk with them and how to wash them off.
Features, pros and cons
The main feature of the flash tattoo is that the translated pattern is temporary. Such tattoos are particularly popular in the summer during all sorts of festivals or parties organized in various styles. Such solutions are convenient because each time you can choose a new drawing, adapting to thematic measures. There are also general trends: so, 5 years ago gold stickers and silver drawings were very popular.
In general, the flash tattoo does not come out of fashion and to this day, just every year they are modified. So, if earlier fans of such art constantly imitated jewelry and made temporary drawings in the form of bracelets, rings, necklaces, today such images are ever less common and less. To follow modern fashion, on the same fingers, neck, breasts are depicting various inscriptions.
Birds, flowers, branches, mountains, various geometric shapes are also relevant. The main rule of such tattoos is compliance with minimalism.
Among the advantages of the flash tattoo, the following points can be distinguished:
- the ability to quickly change the image;
- do not affect the change of image;
- Do not be spoiled when tanning in solarium and the sun;
- resistant to water procedures;
- It is possible to choose a solution for any accessory;
- Do not risk the owner;
- Allergies and other side effects are not caused;
- do not cause pain when sticking to the body;
- Easily removed;
- available at the price;
- You can apply to the body or hair yourself;
- suitable for both charming women and brutal men;
- Do not bother.
Another feature of the flash tattoo is safety, which allows you to stick them even to children. Many adults, having drawings stuffed on the body, make their children temporary signs, entitled to the heirs to this type of art, their style and individuality. At any time, you can get rid of the temporary sketch by replacing it with another.
But the fact that such a drawing is short-lived, alone relates to advantages, while others - to disadvantages. But this is perhaps the only minus of temporary tattoos. Flash tattoo benefits are more.
How much does it hold?
Anyone who wishes to transform their body is wondering how much the pattern will last. On average, the drawing is kept from 3 to 6 days. Sometimes he and a week bangs on the body, and it happens that only two days will last. Some manufacturers guarantee the life of temporary sketches within 10 or more days. It is best to check it in practice by himself, but the life expectancy of such decorations depends in many respects from the place where the flash tattoo is applied.
So, on the palms and in general, the drawing will disappear faster than, let's say, on the forearm. In places that we do not use everyday affairs, the tattoo will be able to hold out longer. This is a back, belly, shoulders, legs (except for stop). But here there is a nuance: it all depends on the clothes that we wear. Narrow T-shirts and things, closely adjacent to the body, adversely affect the resistance of such decoration. When placing a flash tattoo, we carry loose things so that they do not rub the "stuffy" plot.
The duration of wearing a temporary tattoo will depend on the right care. So, the drawing is moisture resistant, but when bathing it does not need to rub the washcloth. Boldly sunbathe with a flash tattoo, but do not handle the site where the pattern, sunscreens and fat creams.
Careful care for such jewelry on the body will affect their condition, and they will delight the eye longer. By the way, there are such drawings inexpensively, sold usually with ribbons, so it is possible to change them often. It is not necessary to treat a flash tattoo too seriously and worry that you are hitting it somewhere and partially erased. The process of removing the old sketch and applying a new temporary tattoo will take not much time. This is a good alternative for those who want to fill the "live" pattern on the body, but is afraid or has contraindications.
What are there?
Flash tattoo today is released in various styles, and they can also be monophonic and in rich color scheme. Women still love gold drawings and silver contours, and men prefer black sketches. However, all this is conditional, no one is limited in the choice. The main condition is to like the tattoo, because it is for you to enjoy her wearing.
Little images with a contour of gold, silver or just black ink girls are applied to the bikini area, on the hands, on the thigh and even on the eyebrows. The following forms are popular: feathers, butterflies, hearts, moon, arrows and other small elements.
Large-scale figures and animal images are applied on the back, the outside of the thigh. Often the tattoo is chosen under the clothes and even under the shoes. So, in the summer, they often make a flash tattoo on the ankle in the form of bracelets and chains. It elegantly looks with sandals and sandals.
It is no secret that many apply a flash tattoo in order to try out one or another picture of the picture and choose the sketch you like to capture it on the body for life through the tattoo. In the meantime, a temporary tattoo can confirm the correctness of the decision or, on the contrary, to make thinking. By the way, to apply temporary drawings, it is not necessary to visit the Tattoo Salon.
There is a master of yourself, any, most importantly, know the basic rules and be able to choose the sketch you like. It will take the minimum of breeding items and a degreasing agent.
How to apply?
Instructions on how to gear in the home the temporary tattoo, a lot. You can use these recommendations, and you can follow the information that is usually indicated on the packaging of the purchase sketch. Flash tattoo is easy to do and ourselves, only then for attaching your own drawing need a special glue composition. In any case, it is necessary to have at hand for applying:
- alcohol basis lotion;
- deep container of small size;
- cotton discs or small towel;
- Pinzets and manicure scissors.
And then everything will depend on the type of skin, features of drawing and, of course, places. Consider detailed options for applying to the body and on strands of hair.
On the body
Initially, the skin must be well degraded. To do this, you need a lotion on an alcohol basis (if the tattoo is intended for the face, then the skin should be cleaned of cosmetics, remove all the remnants of the cream and fat). After that, do the following:
- Heat a small amount of water and pour into the prepared capacity;
- Cut on the designated lines sketch;
- Carefully remove the transparent foundation from the pattern without damaging the pattern itself;
- Attach Tattoo the facial side to the place where you decide to decorate a plot of your body;
- Moisten the towel (linen or cotton swab) in warm water and wet the paper with a pattern, slightly pressure;
- When noted that the paper is well wet, remove the sheet;
- Now you need to absorb an extra moisture from the tattoos.
Sometimes a special glue is used for better consolidation, then you do not need to wet the skin. So, for example, they come with a flash tattoo on the face. Also, glue is needed for screen pattern. It is applied along the contour of the future tattoo.
Glue use only specialized, which does not cause allergic reactions and is completely safe for health. The fixing composition should be resistant to moisture. You can order this glue in online stores or in specialized outlets of offline trading, as well as in beauty salons.
On hair
On the hair, the flash tattoo makes the same principle as on the body. Here is a brief and simple instruction for performing work:
- Wash your head thoroughly and dry your hair (better naturally, but can be a hairdryer);
- Align all strands with iron or catching (necessarily those that go, but better all hair);
- face down to attach a sticker;
- Moisten the circuit with a pattern with a sponge and press the sample to the hair;
- Remove the paper and give a tattoo dry on the hair.
On the hairstyle of the brunette, the golden tattoo, blondes - colored or in dark colors. This is a safe view of the appearance, so such a flash tattoo makes even children's hair. The drawings will be kept on the hair until the need to purify them. As soon as you wash your curls, the tattoo will disappear, but there is always an opportunity to change the drawing and image more often. It is also not recommended to comb hair after applying decorations on them, otherwise it is possible to damage the structure and design of the tattoo.
How to wash off?
One of the benefits of the flash tattoo is that you can get rid of them at any time. Quickly erase the pattern in three ways: with the help of oil, scrub and during water procedures. Consider in detail how to wash the temporary tattoo with oil:
- 5 milliliters of almond oil and 5 milliliters of wheat oil warm in water bath;
- distribute the warm mixture over the entire surface of the pattern on the body;
- give oil composition to absorb;
- rub with a sketch with a sponge or washcloth;
- If necessary, repeat the procedure.
To remove the tattoo on her hair, it is better to use jojoba and coconut oils. This composition will need to apply on dry hair at the picture. After 15 minutes, wash off with water, in which the fruit vinegar should be pre-allowed. Oils not only remove a crumpled material from tissues of skin and hair, but also normalize PH-balance.
To remove a metal tattoo, you can take any cosmetic or even massage oil. It is enough to wipe with these means a plot with an inflicted pattern, and then wash off under the crane with warm water (if necessary, use soaps).
Remove the tattoo can be used with the built-in composition. You can buy a ready scrub, and you can make it at home, especially if the skin is very sensitive. For this you need:
- Drink coffee, after which it is to prepare 3 tablespoons of thick;
- Add 3 tablespoons of salts to coffee grounds (it is preferable to use sea salt);
- to the coffee and salt mixture add 6 tablespoons of olive oil (unrefined);
- take the washcloth and take the mixture in the contour of the sketch using it;
- After 7-10 minutes, rinse well with warm water.
To clean the hair from the drawing, take the ray oil (20 ml) and interfere with it (10 g). Wrap in painted curls and in minutes 30 Good rinse hair familiar to you with air conditioning shampoo. These ways are not so expellent, they are good for home procedures, but unfortunately, not everyone. For example, they cannot be done by those who have numerous moles or cracks on the body, as well as those who have a blood flow and hyperitrihosis detected. In such a way, it is better to use simple water and soap when removing a flash tattoo.
To do this, the plot with a sketch is enough to hold a few minutes in hot water, then clean the skin or hair with food soda, after which it was washed off with warm water with soap or gel for the shower.
And you can simply take a bath with a sea salt, after a quarter of an hour to wash with soap / gel, and after cleaning the skin, the designated area wipe the lotion.
