An American company, called Save My Ink Forever, offers a unique service: remove tattooed skin spots of people dying to treasure it forever.
It almost makes sense, beyond the obscurity of the matter, many tattoos are true works of art. In this sense, then, its conservation does not seem crazy. Or is it very different from keeping ashes?
Be that as it may, the truth is that the company, according to the media, is gaining customers that in life they want their tattoos, which have so much meaning to them, to outlive them.
The idea came to Michael Sherwood and his son Kyle, who ran a funeral home business in Cleveland. And it arose, as they told the local press, while They had a few drinks in a bar together with a group of friends.
One of them said he would like his tattoo to be preserved in some way and asked the Sherwoods how he should do it. Everyone laughed at the question, except the gravediggers The subject kept spinning in their heads.
The logic they evaluated is that tattoos mean a lot to the people who have them on their bodies, as well as their families, so it made sense that some of them they would like to keep them.
So, father and son devised a technique for removing and preserving tattoosand they founded Save My Ink Forever (“Save my tattoo forever”, in English) and started offering their services.
“We are trying do it in the most dignified way possible. To people, some of these things are really works of art, ”Kyle Sherwood said.
“Give that family another option instead of just having the remains or the burial, we can still do that, actually. have a part of your loved one. They are works of art and the tattoos we get are amazing, “added the man.
Save My Ink Forever claims to be the only company in the world with the correct tattoo storage process. They add that they will not reveal any details about it, but they affirm it It is a complex process that takes about three to four months..
“Once done, customers are left with a work of art similar to parchment which does not require any maintenance, “they explained.
A growing business and the imposition of limits
The Sherwoods admit they don’t expect such success with their project. And this only thousands of orders from all over the United States. And the demand continues to grow.
Indeed, they had to work with funeral homes across the countrysending them special kits and video tutorials to properly learn the technique they created.
“We are trying to do it in the most dignified way possible. To people, some of these things are really works of art, ”Kyle said, adding that Save My Ink Forever draw a line in the preservation of facial and genital tattoos.
The company has received requests for preserved tattoos to be turned into book covers or lampshades, but the Sherwoods say they are trying to fulfill the families’ last wishes, not create a kind of freak show.
In 2018, the year they started, Save My Ink Forever had around 100 tattoos on it, but orders haven’t stopped coming in ever since. Now they calculate that it will already be around 400 per year.
Source: Clarin
