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| Cosmetic? | Other Side | She Says "Permanent" |
| FDA Letter | Pigments | She Says Tennessee |
| Interview | Total Control | On Shopping Cart |
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Unimax is considered an "Artisan" Tattoo Ink producer by
mixing 400-800 oz batches of ink. In the mid 80's (my mentor and
teacher) Andy Keator, NJ Tattoo Supplies, (and Baseball Cards) schooled
me on all the equipment: Bar Needles, Tubes, Grips and Power Supplies Andy was a
machinist by trade making parts for submarines. With his help I started
selling tattoo equipment in NYC centering around his unique 2 part Star
machine eventually registering as a bonafide business in 1989 under the
name Unimax Supply Co. and moving to a larger professional space on
Broadway between Spring and Broom in SOHO. In the 80s, and into a good part of the 90's, tattooists mixed their own inks. The powder was hard-to-impossible to find and formulas and sources were not shared without a price. Some would provide false information to bring them and their clients to ruin, Labels did not list the correct pigment names or numbers because tattooists wanted to go into the business. Back then Tattooists made everything in the back room being hostile to suppliers because it allowed others to enter the tattoo business. Unimax became accepted in NYC because we were serious, knowledgeable about many aspects of the tattoo technical part. By the early 2000s we contracted with a specialty tattoo ink chemist who started actual production of our ink with tested pigments, aseptic handling and bottling and chemical tweaking for performance for our application and method of using the pigments. There was never a problem with the inks except for the few in every industry who pop up over the years. The bad actors were always discovered fast before they could botch up many people's tattoos. News travels fast. |
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