Sunless Tanning Craze Inspires Inventors to Develop New Method of Tattooing; Kids and Tweens are Bonding to Body-Accessorizing Stickers That Create Tanned Images

Wheaton, IL – TanArt ™ tattoos are making quite the visual impression on America’s kids. The duel featured product offers two kinds of fun as colorful body stickers, once removed from the skin, transform into dark tanned images while kids watch.

TanArt™ the Cool 2-in-1 Body Art temporary tattoos look like ink inspired tattoos but are safe, inexpensive and easy to apply. First, the wearer places one of the colorfully printed stickers on the body for 7 to 24 hours. Within the sticker’s adhesive is a self-tanning ingredient that, when the sticker is removed, gradually creates a dark tanned image (tattoo) on the skin. The tanned image fades away naturally in several days.

"My kids love them because they’re completely different from other body art. They like the idea of wearing the sticker, and then watching, as the image of that sticker grows darker. It creates an entirely new decorative element on their body,” said Scott Zagurski, from Naperville, IL and father of 7 and 13 –year-old girls and a 10-year-old boy.

By incorporating DHA (Dihydroxyacetone), an artificial and FDA approved, tanning agent into a safe medical grade adhesive, Tan Art founders Scott Billings and Paul Bakken were able to create their patented product.

Other popular temporary tattoos, such as waterslides, can be inconsistent in their construction and often flake easily from the skin. This causes them to look unattractive quickly. Henna ink temporary tattoos, in which the ink stains the skin, are messy, more expensive and are not approved by the FDA for skin contact.

TanArt™ the Cool 2-in-1 Body Art is available in eight different packages with sticker designs that appeal to both boys and girls. Popular sticker shapes include hearts, crosses, clover, tribal, barbed wire and the Egyptian ankh.  Each package, containing six body stickers, retails for $3.99. The product is selling at selected stores throughout the US. More information is available online at www.tan-art.com.

Founded in 2003, Tan-Art has developed and manufactured a patented self-tanning matrix that constituted the backbone of its skin imaging products. Tan-Art strives to bring their skin imaging products to the market place both domestically and internationally.

Contact: Paul Bakken, (419)867-3584, paulbakken@tan-art.com

www.tan-art.com

Source: Tan-Art