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# Making Tattoos With Cremation Ashes

### Making Tattoos With Cremation Ashes: The Real Process, Start To Finish

## How a tattoo with your loved one’s ashes is made, from the moment you order to the moment your artist finishes the piece.

Curious how making tattoos with cremation ashes actually works? This page walks you through it, from sending us your loved one’s ashes to walking out of your local tattoo studio with the finished memorial tattoo. Real client stories included.

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### Making Tattoos With Cremation Ashes Is A Safe Practice

With the help of Cremation Ink ®, making tattoos with cremation ashes is finally safe and consistently produces fantastic, bright, vibrant tattoos. Where a local tattoo shop simply tipping unprocessed ashes into the ink pot would typically lead to bad tattoo results, skin irritation and infections, Cremation Ink ® has built the processes and protocols that make that a thing of the past.

Experienced in this very bespoke service, we make sure not only that your loved one’s ashes are respected, but that the tattoo ink itself is 100% safe and sterile, free from contaminants. No more bad results from unprocessed ashes. Cremation Ink ® are the specialists at making tattoos with cremation ashes work properly. Read on for the full picture.

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### The Tattoo Process

With ongoing input from dermatologists to ensure a consistent product every time, Cremation Ink ® supplies this service to clients all around the world. When you order, we send you a kit so you can post your loved one’s ashes safely back to us. Once we receive them, one of our expert team members is assigned to your order, and they’re the one who’ll treat your loved one’s ashes with the respect and care they deserve.

That team member stays with your loved one’s ashes the whole way through, working only on your order from arrival to dispatch. We remove all the heavy metal and medicinal contaminants, along with the other traces that remain in cremation ashes. Then through our multi-layer sterilisation and molecular matching of both the ashes and the pigment, the ashes are finally combined with the high quality tattoo pigment to produce a bottle of your chosen colour, infused with your loved one’s ashes. Vibrant, bright, and built to keep your loved one with you for life.

For the technical side, our [process](https://cremationink.com/the-process-of-ashes-into-tattoo-ink/)
 page walks through every step in depth.

![making tattoos with human ashes](https://testsite1.vip/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/making-tattoos-with-human-ashes.jpg)

### The Safety Behind Making Tattoos With Cremation Ashes

As mentioned on our broader [tattoos with ashes](https://cremationink.com/tattoos-with-ashes/)
 page, cremation ashes still hold contaminants even after the extreme heat of cremation. Here we expand on that.

Even though your loved one’s body was subjected to extreme temperatures during cremation, the ashes that come back are still loaded with contaminants. Heavy metals, soaked into the bones over years of exposure to the world, are still present. Medicinal residue from a lifetime of taking medication is also there. If your loved one was taking a lot of medicines towards the end of their life, all of it will be present in trace amounts in the cremation ashes.

There are other contaminants too, and all of them have to be removed before the ashes can be safely placed into your skin via a tattoo. Cremation Ink ® uses specialist equipment to handle this. We produce a contaminant-free tattoo ink, infused with your loved one’s ashes and sterilised multiple times throughout the process to make sure the finished ashes-infused tattoo ink is safe to use and produces a fantastic, bright, long-lasting tattoo.

For the full safety picture, the [safe cremation ash tattoo](https://cremationink.com/tattoos-with-ashes/safe-cremation-ash-tattoo/)
 page goes into it in depth.

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### The Motivation Behind A Cremation Tattoo

Making tattoos with cremation ashes is a way of paying tribute to your loved one through a tattoo design that holds the love you have for them. It’s one of the only options that genuinely keeps you and your loved one together for the rest of your life.

Why inter your loved one in a remote graveyard or scatter them in a field, when you can keep a part of them with you forever? That’s the service Cremation Ink ® offers worldwide. With clients embracing it from all over the globe, we’ve become specialists in the care and respect that your loved one deserved.

If you’d like to read about the grief side, our [coping with grief](https://cremationink.com/coping-with-grief/)
 page covers it honestly, from over twenty years of sitting with grieving people.

### Why The Right Artist Matters

> “When the cremation ashes have been processed correctly, decontaminated and sterilised, they’re as organic in nature and as clean as the pigment used in standard tattoo inks.” — feedback from an experienced tattoo professional with years working in body art

Some clients want to commemorate a favourite animal or pet rather than a person. Human or not, the principle is the same. Ashes are ashes, and the process is consistent. The most important thing is that the remains are processed properly by a specialist service before any tattooing happens. That’s exactly what Cremation Ink ® delivers.

Beyond a tattoo, there are plenty of other ways to commemorate your loved one. You could have a small portion of their ashes turned into a diamond and made into bespoke jewellery, placed inside a firework to light up the sky, or mixed into oil paints for a memorial painting. Once you open yourself up to the creative possibilities, your loved one stays not just with you but part of your life and environment in beautiful, lasting ways.

![making ashes tattoos](https://testsite1.vip/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/making-ashes-tattoos.jpg)

### A Permanent, Lasting Reminder

Many of our clients say there’s nothing greater or deeper than a lasting memory worn on the skin. One recent client described her experience: “It’s a different sensation than any other tattoo I’ve ever had. I have a part of my loved one with me forever. The fact that I know I have my gran’s ashes in my tattoo brings me closer to my grandmother on so many levels.”

Here’s another story. When one of our clients decided to get her seventh tattoo, she wanted to add something special to commemorate her recently passed grandmother. She’d already heard about ashes tattoos from a friend who’d had one done using Cremation Ink ®, so she knew exactly what she wanted to do with a small portion of her grandmother’s ashes. She brought her finished, processed Cremation Ink ® ink to her favourite local tattoo studio, where her artist used it to create a purple gladiola flower, her grandmother’s favourite. She has now with her gran every day.

That’s the heart of what making tattoos with cremation ashes does. It turns ashes from something you keep in an urn into something you carry with you, on you, every day.

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### Reflecting On Making Tattoos With Cremation Ashes

Bringing your loved one and yourself closer together forever is now a simple process with the service of Cremation Ink ®. Making tattoos with cremation ashes is now safe, professional, and available anywhere in the world, delivered directly to your door. Before this service existed, this was a difficult and grey-area process.

Now, with over twenty years of experience in this very bespoke service available to the world through Cremation Ink ®, it’s a beautiful way to keep your loved one safe, show the respect and love you hold for them, and walk out of a tattoo studio of your choice with a bright, vibrant, forever tattoo holding a part of them.

When you feel ready, you can [order your inks here](https://cremationink.com/shop/)
. We’ll send out a kit, walk you through it, and look after the rest. Or [contact us](https://cremationink.com/contact-us/)
 first if you’d like to talk it through.

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#### How does making a tattoo with cremation ashes work?

Cremation Ink ® handles the process in our UK lab. You order online and we send you a kit. You return a tablespoon of your loved one’s ashes safely through the post. We assign one technician to your order, who follows your loved one’s ashes through every stage. We remove contaminants, sterilise the ashes multiple times, molecularly match them to your chosen pigment, and infuse the prepared ashes into high quality tattoo ink. The finished bottle is sent back to you, ready for your local artist.

#### Can my local tattoo studio make this tattoo themselves with raw ashes?

We strongly recommend against it, and most reputable studios will refuse. Cremation ashes still carry heavy metals, medicinal residue and other contaminants that need extracting before anything goes into the skin. A tattoo studio isn’t equipped to process remains safely. The right route is to have Cremation Ink ® prepare the ink properly off-site, then take the finished bottle to your local studio.

#### Is making tattoos with cremation ashes safe?

Yes, when Cremation Ink ® handles the preparation. We remove all heavy metals, medicinal residue and other contaminants, then apply multi-layer sterilisation throughout the process. By the time the bottle reaches your tattoo artist, the ink is safe to be used under the skin and the tattoo heals like any other.

#### How much of my loved one’s ashes do you need?

About a tablespoon per bottle. Anything Cremation Ink ® doesn’t use during the process is returned to you with the finished ink. Nothing is wasted.

#### Can the ink be used for both human and pet ashes?

Yes. The process is the same. Cremation Ink ® has made tattoos for clients commemorating people and pets alike, and the result is just as bright and meaningful either way.

#### Will the tattoo look different from a normal tattoo?

No. Because Cremation Ink ® fully infuses the ashes into a professional tattoo ink, the finished tattoo looks like any other quality tattoo. Your artist can line, shade and pack colour with it like any normal ink.

#### How long does it take?

Once your loved one’s ashes arrive at Cremation Ink ®, the finished ink is usually ready within five to nine days, depending on lab workload. The bottle is then sent back to you tracked and signed for, anywhere in the world.

#### What if I want to commemorate my loved one in other ways too?

You can. Many clients keep a small portion aside for the tattoo and use other portions for things like a memorial diamond, firework rocket, oil painting or pressed vinyl record. Cremation Ink ® only needs a tablespoon, so the rest of the ashes stay with you for whatever you decide.

#### How do I know it’s my loved one’s ashes in the finished ink?

Cremation Ink ® works on only one set of ashes at a time per technician. One member of staff is assigned to your order and follows your loved one’s ashes through every stage. There’s no risk of mixing or cross-contamination between orders.

#### Can I have it done in colour?

Yes. Cremation Ink ® offers a full colour range. Your local artist can use the ink for lining, shading and packing colour, in whatever palette your design calls for.

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