DIY: Transfer Tattoos
June 9th, 2008 by timbotron
I recently started screwing-around with Papilio Temporary Tattoo paper. Making my own transfer tattoos with a desktop printer.
The first tattoo experiment: making a “Petunia” dancing girl tattoo, from The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
And Yes. I am fascinated with this 90’s Nickelodeon TV show.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
[...] I decided to design Blogadilla’s very own “Adult Safety Tats” – print them with transfer tattoo paper. [...]
September 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
can you please make me one? and send it to me. that would be so awesome.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I have applied thousands of temporary tattoos directly onto customer’s skin in my business. Our temporary tattoos are professionally printed on a printing press. I have found these SELF PRINT decal papers (regardless of brand) to be terrible. They offer no short cut. Don’t waste your hard earned money on this junk.
You will be regretful later.
The decals do not transfer well to the skin, they transfer much too thick of glue base which cases a hard glue edge to surround your final design. The plastic covering your final tattoo is apparent to even a child. Having said that, my company has discovered that nothing beats a professionally printed tattoo.
As a final note, I will challenge anyone decal/temp tattoo manufacturer who THINKS they have a thin, easily printable, transferable product that works for temporary tattoos to send me a few sample pages to print. I DARE YOU! Not one of you have yet to send a paper to date and this ad is posted several places on the internet. These guys take your money and don’t care about results. Trust me….Bel Decal has $150.00 of my money and made no apology for having a poor product and poor service.
May I suggest you purchase from a design from a reputable vendor who uses a printing press? You will be quite happy with your results!
September 20th, 2009 at 6:23 am
I remember Pete and Pete. Classic! There’s this cheesy movie on Hulu – Gamebox 2.0 – that I saw the younger brother in recently. He’s a bit older now!
-Nate