Eternal Tattoo Ink - Eternal Tattoo Ink

Eternal Tattoo Ink: the full colour library

Eternal tattoo ink gives you the full colour wheel from one brand: more than 300 colours across roughly 27 lines, from the core Standard palette to signature sets built with working artists.

The colour wheel is a published chart of how the Standard palette relates to itself, developed with Liz Cook. It shows which colours sit beside each other and which pairs mix predictably, so you can settle a pairing before you order.

Eternal also publishes the Color Index number for its pigments, product by product, on its own site. You can check which pigment family you are working with before anything is opened.

Which Eternal set for which work

Each signature set is a working artist's own palette, built for a kind of work.

Portrait and realism. The M Series, from Mike DeVries and Mario Rosenau, runs twelve colours for skin tones and monochrome work. Twelve Portrait Skin Tones singles cover the range, Light Peach through Rich Espresso.

Andrea Afferni adds ten singles for the same work. Neutral Gray comes at 20, 40, 60 and 80 percent, a fixed ladder you can build greys against instead of mixing them, which is why colour realism work leans on it.

The Liz Cook Series is twelve colours arranged as named counterpart pairs: Sage against Green Slime, Forest against Seven Seas, Jade against Dirty Money. Cook built Eternal's Color Wheel System, and this set is its pairings.

Traditional Americana goes to Myke Chambers, bright primaries for bold, flat packing. For horror and dark realism, Dan Henk's Zombie Colours carries flesh-tone browns, muddy reds and murky blues.

Japanese work has Jess Yen, nineteen colours in square bottles. Perfect Storm is Mike DeVries again, six mauves and dusty blues for atmospheric work.

Themed palettes sit apart from the artist sets: Motor City (twelve Detroit muscle-car colours), Muted Earth Tones (twelve "dirty colours"), and the eighteen-colour Vintage Ink set, where none of the eighteen repeat the Standard line.

Under all of it the Standard line runs 67 core colours, sold as singles, as a 12-Colour Sample Set, or as the 50-Colour Set. Bottles come in 1, 2 and 4 oz.

Grey wash runs five stages, Light through Darkest. For lining, Pitch Black Classic Lining, plus a Concentrate that doubles as a wash base.

Behaviour in the machine: what artists report

Artists on the Tattooing 101 forums and in Tommy's Dynamic-versus-Eternal comparison describe it the same way: it goes in smooth, wipes easy, and sits a touch denser than the thinnest inks. Most of them read that density as the reason it packs colour strong and holds.

That is what artists say, not what Eternal publishes. Eternal states no viscosity number at all. What it does state is a density range of 0.9 to 2.3 and a pH of 5.37 to 9.35 across its grouped formulas.

Those same threads are not unanimous. Some artists there describe batch-to-batch variation, and most say that switching from a thinner ink means adjusting the machine a little.

To open a colour up over a long session, Keep it Wet is Eternal's own hue-neutral additive and we stock it. Among artists on record, Vova Havry runs Eternal White in his Artist Picks.

Is Eternal tattoo ink safe? The audit trail

Every Eternal formula is gamma-sterilised at manufacture. The process is validated by MicroBio Consulting at an FDA-certified microbiology lab to a sterility assurance level of 10⁻⁶, and re-verified by quarterly dose testing. That protects the sealed product; once a container is open, single-use caps and clean handling are what protect a client.

The safety sheet publishes the trace-metal ceilings too: nickel below 0.00005 percent, chromium below 0.0006 percent.

Eternal manufactures in Brighton, Michigan, from a 30,000 square foot plant with a dedicated clean-room facility opened in 2022. It is an industrial operation, owned since 2019 by Nexus Brands Group and backed by private equity.

Eikon carries Eternal 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

The question a client asks is what is going into their skin. Eternal publishes the pigment by Color Index number, the trace-metal ceilings and the sterilisation method, and every formula is vegan.

PR170 (CI 12475), the pigment in Deep Red and Crimson Red, is identified in published research as a potent skin sensitiser. Any pigment from any maker can provoke a reaction in a sensitive client, and a 24-hour patch test before a large piece is still the standard advice.

Eternal's safety sheet states plainly that its ink is not to be used on anyone who may be pregnant. Eternal also does not recommend its ink for permanent makeup, pointing PMU artists to Ever After Pigments instead.

One documented quality event is on record: a 2018 voluntary recall of two colours from a single lot, for microbial contamination, long resolved. The safety sheet gives 12 months of shelf life once a container is opened.

One gap, since the rest of this page is disclosure: Eternal lists its carrier only as distilled water and pigment, and publishes no further breakdown.

Ordering Eternal from Eikon

Every Eternal 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 Eternal's own site, where they stay current.

Eternal 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, Eternal is sold to verified professionals through a Pro Account.

Eikon is Canada's official home for Eternal Ink.

Eternal is built for range, not for one job done deepest. If the piece in front of you is a black-and-grey build, Empire Ink formulates its greys as a pre-mixed four-stage system so the values are set before you open a bottle, and every packing and lining black we carry sits together in black tattoo ink.

Every ink we stock, brand by brand, is in tattoo ink.