January 12, 2021

Tommy’s StarBrite® Colors

The Importance Of Quality

When it comes to tattoo ink, there is no room for inconsistencies or impurities. Ink quality can affect many things within a tattoo, such as healing, saturation, and even the quality of the application. With regulations and guidelines, the risk of buying contaminated product has certainly decreased. However, the risk still isn’t completely eliminated. The decision to work with high quality materials is still fully up to the artist. Here, we make the decision to put our clients first.

7 years ago, Cesar made the decision to invest in his clients safety and well being. As a result, he decided to join with Tommy’s StarBrite Colors for a sponsorship. Since then Cesar has been able to ensure peace of mind for all of our clients here at Creative Ink.

Introducing: Tommy’s StarBrite® Colors

Tommy’s StarBrite Colors has invested time, money, and research in creating their Vegan Friendly pigments. The StarBrite lab uses an ISO 8, Class A 100,000 clean room with high powered HEPA filters. The filters remove dust and other particles from the air. Without these preventative measures, there is a high risk for contamination. All employees are fitted with clean room uniforms.

Before, during, and after production, there are procedures in place to for quality. The inks are cleaned with disinfectants before, and after production of each color. All StarBrite Inks are gamma treated before leaving as well. StarBrite Inks began the process of chemically testing for ingredients in 2009. They were one of the first, large scale ink manufacturers to do this, as stated by their website.

Unfortunately with the steady growth of the tattoo ink industry, the counterfeit ink market has also grown. StarBrite now takes measures to ensure their products cannot be mistaken. In a stand against copy cats, StarBrite revamped the entire appearance of their inks in 2019. To ensure authenticity, all bottles now feature a new logo, die cut peel back labels, and a metallic ink in the bottom band. Each bottle will now feature information specific to each pigment, such as the color index numbers as well. For more information, please visit Tommy’s StarBrite® Colors.

Showing a true passion for safety and consistency, StarBrite has proven its quality here time and time again.