Temporary Tattoo Ink

I recently started seeing ads for Inkbox on Amazon, and decided to take a peek into what it is. Inkbox touts itself as a temporary tattoo ink, but is it really tattoo ink?

Nope. It's not actually ink, it's jagua. Jagua is very similar to henna, which is made from a plant called Lawsonia Inermis. The 'temporary tattoo ink' or jagua is an organic compound made from the Genipa Americana plant, similar to henna except in color. The tattoo lasts about the same length of time as traditional henna (roughly 10 days) but develops differently. Henna will stain skin immediately and should stay on the skin longer to develop a deeper color. Jagua tattoos will develop slowly over 24 hours, and only need to be on the skin for 2 hours to obtain the desired darker color.

Jagua returns a beautiful blue / black color, without the dreaded PPD chemical. I've always wanted the henna to be a bit darker, more like a real tattoo. Maybe Jagua is the answer.

Temporary tattoo ink being applied