Dermaglo - Dermaglo

Dermaglo Tattoo Ink Canada: what you learn about it stays true

Dermaglo has been in production in Blyth, Northumberland since 2002, and it has stayed one series the whole way — no signature ranges, no seasonal drops, four new colours in June 2024 and little else added in two decades.

The payoff is that learning this line is worth the time. Get the hang of how a Dermaglo red packs and behaves, and that is knowledge you keep using — on a bodysuit worked over three seasons, on a client back after a decade for a touch-up, on the flash you drew years ago and still tattoo.

It is made at the same address as the tattoo studio where the formulas were developed. The late Geordie Scott built the line over four decades of tattooing, and his daughter Lorraine Scott carries it on.

The same red, ten years apart

A verified review on our own product page comes from an artist who ran Black Redi-Mix as their lining black for fifteen years and called it the best lining black they had used.

That is one artist's account of one ink, and it is the longest-running piece of feedback we hold on any product.

The range is blacks, reds, blues, greens, greys and specialty colours, sold individually rather than in sets, so you buy the colours you actually use. Black Redi-Mix is the workhorse lining black, and every lining black Eikon carries is grouped in black tattoo ink. Eikon's own best-sellers across the line are Canary Yellow, Navel Orange, Bubblegum Pink and Lunar Green.

In June 2024 Dermaglo added four: Deep Crimson Red, True Love Red, Ocean Blue and Aqua Foam. Dermaglo positions Ocean Blue between Light Blue and Midnight Blue, True Love Red as the replacement for the discontinued Dark Red, and Aqua Foam as a deeper, richer turquoise.

Each colour carries a three-year shelf life from the manufacture date printed on the label, so you can date what is on your station.

Thick by design: working with Dermaglo

Dermaglo runs thick, and that is the point rather than a fault. The pigment load is what lets you pack a large colour field solid and come away with saturation that holds.

The pigment is micro-dispersed, broken into smaller and more uniform particles, which Dermaglo frames as what makes an ink this dense easier for the needle to work into the skin.

The White is the thickest in the line — that comes from Eikon's own reviews and from Dermaglo's reply to them, not from a spec sheet, and artists who use it treat the density as what makes it cover. Artists comparing packing whites will find the alternatives grouped in white tattoo ink.

One habit goes with all of it: shake or mix well before you start. Dermaglo publishes no machine-specific guidance, so voltage and setup stay yours to judge.

That is why traditional and old-school artists keep it on the station — bold shapes, heavy fills, large colour fields are what the density is for. Fine-line and greyscale work is not what it was built around, and Dermaglo does not pretend otherwise.

The ink that follows you through a career

Dermaglo has kept one series in production and added to it rarely — four new colours in June 2024, and no signature ranges at any point. What that buys an artist is a supply line worth learning: the colours you stock in your first year are the colours you can still order in your fifteenth.

Eikon has been Canada's authorized Dermaglo distributor, at the import and wholesale level, since the mid-2000s.

Are Dermaglo inks vegan and Health-Canada notified?

Dermaglo's standard line is vegan-friendly — that is the brand's own assertion rather than a third-party certification, which is typical across professional tattoo ink.

Eikon carries Dermaglo because it comes from a Health-Canada-notified brand, and we confirm that status before we bring in any ink. Notifying Health Canada is what makes an ink lawful to sell here; there is no government test an ink passes first.

Health Canada sets the impurity and microbial benchmarks — lead at or under 10 ppm, arsenic and cadmium 3, mercury 1, antimony 5, alongside the ISO 17516 microbial limits — and enforces them after an ink is on the market. Its 2022–23 verification sweep tested inks against those limits and pulled three products from sale. Meeting them is the manufacturer's responsibility.

For your clients

No honest brand can tell you a colour never fades. UV exposure, skin type and placement all affect how a tattoo ages, and those are the artist's variables to manage.

What the pigment load does make possible is packing a colour field saturated in fewer passes — and how solid that looks healed comes down to how well you packed it.

Set the aftercare conversation on that basis. A client who keeps a healed piece out of hard sun will keep the colour they left with for longer, and that is worth saying plainly rather than promising permanence.

The standard caution holds here as anywhere. Vegan does not mean allergen-free, any pigment can provoke a reaction in a sensitive client, and a 24-hour patch test before a large piece is still right for anyone with known sensitivities.

Ordering Dermaglo from Eikon

Every Dermaglo bottle goes out individually sealed in its own bag, so a leak in transit costs one bottle instead of the order, and from November through March ink ships with free heat packs so nothing freezes on the way. Safety data sheets live on Dermaglo's own site, where they stay current.

Dermaglo ships from our shop in Kingston, Ontario. Order by 1 pm EST Monday to Friday and it leaves the same day, ground is free over $150, and UPS reaches Ontario and southern Quebec the next business day.

Like all tattoo ink at Eikon, Dermaglo is sold to verified professionals through a Pro Account.

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