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The Broadest Colour Catalogue on Eikon's Shelf

Eternal Ink is the brand you reach for when colour range is the job. It carries more than 300 shades across roughly 27 lines, the widest colour catalogue of any tattoo ink brand Eikon stocks, so a colour-heavy practice can cover the full wheel, plus skin tones, earths, and washes, without switching brands mid-piece. Depth is the point: where a specialist line gives you one palette done well, Eternal gives you the core Standard range and a deep bench of artist signature sets behind it. That makes it a natural default for colour realism, neo-traditional, new school, and traditional work alike, anywhere the palette is what carries the piece.

Eternal has the operating history to back a catalogue that size. It manufactures from a 30,000 sq ft plant in Brighton, Michigan with a dedicated clean-room facility, and its signature roster names more working artists than any colour line Eikon carries except Solid. The practical effect is a brand that behaves like a reference library, broad enough to be the one line a colour studio standardises on.

That breadth comes with unusual transparency. Eternal lists the Color Index (CI) number for the pigment in each shade on its product page, the most thorough disclosure of any brand on Eikon's shelf. You can see exactly which pigment family is in a bottle before you open it, which turns a big catalogue into a navigable one. For a working colourist, that combination, range plus a published pigment for every shade, is what makes Eternal the default starting point for colour.

Eikon stocks the 50-Colour Standard Set and individual Eternal bottles in ½, 1, 2, and 4 oz sizes.

Eternal's Signature Series Which Set for Which Work

Eternal's second strength is its artist roster. Each signature set is the working palette of the artist who built it, calibrated to a specific kind of work, so you can buy a curated colour logic rather than assemble one bottle by bottle.

Portrait and realism is covered by two sets. The M Series (the "M" is Mike DeVries plus Mario Rosenau) is twelve colours built around skin tones, monochrome transitions, and the controlled neutrals portrait work lives on. The Liz Cook Series takes a different approach: twelve colours arranged as named counterpart pairings, Sage with Green Slime, Forest against Seven Seas, Jade against Dirty Money, so the set carries its own mixing logic. Cook also developed Eternal's Color Wheel System; her set is its portable form.

Traditional Americana is the Myke Chambers Series: bright primaries plus supporting tones tuned for the bold, flat packing of a classic symbolic style.

Horror and dark realism is Dan Henk's Zombie Colors, flesh-tone browns, muddy reds, and murky blues for the colour grammar of horror illustration.

Colour-field and themed work is where Motor City Colors (twelve Detroit muscle-car shades), Muted Earth Tones (twelve "dirty colours" for a subdued, earthy palette), and the 18-colour Vintage Ink set live. Vintage has no overlap with the Standard line, so it works as a complete alternate starting point. For atmospheric and landscape tonality, the six-colour Perfect Storm set, Mike DeVries' second Eternal collaboration, narrows to mauves, dusty blues, and grey-greens.

Underneath the sets, the Standard line is the backbone: 67 core colours you can buy individually and build on. And because Eternal developed its Color Wheel System around that palette, the colours are made to mix predictably with one another rather than fight, which matters when you're blending your own tones instead of working straight from a set.

Eikon stocks all of these sets, plus a 12-colour Sample Set as an entry point and the 50-Colour Standard Set as a full reference library. Individual bottles from most lines are available separately.

How Does Eternal Ink Handle and Heal?

What a brand controls is the raw material; the healed result still comes down to hand, depth, skin, and aftercare. What Eternal gives you to work with is consistency. Artists who run it report that it sits a touch denser than the thinnest inks, a trait many prefer for packing colour, because the pigment stays where it's placed rather than flowing, and most describe it as smooth and easy to wipe. That's artist-reported perception, not a published spec: Eternal doesn't publish a viscosity figure (no brand Eikon carries does), and the disclosed physical range is density 0.9–2.3 and pH 5.37–9.35 across its grouped formulas, wide, because the line spans 300-plus distinct formulations. If you want to thin a colour for a long session, Eternal's own Keep It Wet additive is hue-neutral and made for it.

The payoff of the per-shade CI disclosure shows up here too: because the same pigment is specified for a shade run to run, the colour you mix from a fresh bottle behaves like the last one. On saturation, Eternal's reds and warm tones have a reputation among artists for going in strong and holding through the early years, again, reported experience rather than a benchmarked fade study, since no brand publishes multi-year UV-stability data. The honest read is that Eternal's job is to deliver a predictable, well-disclosed pigment; how it heals is mostly the work around it.

One practical note from the carrier side: Eternal's product pages list "distilled water + pigment," and the full carrier breakdown isn't publicly verified beyond one EU safety sheet. If carrier composition matters for a particular client, the per-product ingredient block and MSDS are on each product page.

Is Eternal Ink Vegan and Gamma-Sterilised?

Yes on both, and Eternal documents them. Every Eternal formula is vegan, no animal-derived ingredients, confirmed across the brand's materials. Sterilisation is gamma irradiation carried out at manufacture, validated by MicroBio Consulting at an FDA-certified microbiology lab to a sterility assurance level of 10⁻⁶, with quarterly dose-verification testing. That's a published, re-verified process rather than a label adjective, and it applies to the sealed product: once a bottle is open, single-use caps and clean handling are what protect a client.

The per-shade CI disclosure is the other signal: a brand that prints the pigment in every bottle is giving you more to verify, not less. On the Canadian side, Eikon carries Eternal because it's from a Health-Canada-notified brand, and Eikon confirms a brand has notified Health Canada before stocking it. Health Canada sets and enforces the impurity and microbial limits, lead under 10 ppm, arsenic and cadmium under 3, mercury under 1, alongside the ISO 17516 microbial limits, and the manufacturer is responsible for meeting them. That's the honest division of labour: notified brand, regulator-enforced limits, manufacturer-met.

What to Know for Your Clients

Because Eternal publishes its pigments, you can put that disclosure to work in client conversations. A few of Eternal's warm reds, Deep Red and Crimson Red among them, contain PR170 (CI 12475), the naphthol-red family the NIH literature flags as the most-documented tattoo-pigment sensitiser. That's a category-level property, not an Eternal fault, the same pigment runs across the industry, but because Eternal lists it, you can see which shades carry it and patch-test a reactive client before the session. Worth remembering too that vegan does not mean allergen-free: any pigment can provoke a reaction in a sensitive client.

Two usage notes are worth carrying into a consult as well: Eternal doesn't recommend its tattoo ink for permanent makeup; it points PMU artists to a dedicated cosmetic-pigment line, and its safety sheet advises against tattooing a client who may be pregnant. Neither is unique to Eternal, but both are easy to have ready when the question comes up.

Eternal's one documented quality event is a 2018 voluntary recall of two colours from a single lot for microbial contamination, long resolved, and a useful reminder of why professional ink ships sealed and sterilised, and why lot numbers and dates are worth a glance on any brand you buy. Eternal's safety sheet lists a 12-month shelf life once a bottle is opened, so dating a bottle when you crack it keeps your rotation honest.

Buy Eternal Ink at Eikon

Eternal is stocked at Eikon in two formats, curated sets and individual bottles, with the Standard colours available in ½, 1, 2, and 4 oz. Like all tattoo ink at Eikon, Eternal is sold to verified professionals on a Pro Account, a blanket trade policy rather than an Eternal-specific gate. Orders ship Canada-wide from Eikon's Kingston, Ontario warehouse.

If your work pulls in a direction Eternal's colour range doesn't specialise in, the rest of Eikon's roster is built to complement it: for dedicated black work, lining and packing, reach for Panthera or browse Eikon's black tattoo ink, and for a built-out greywash system, Empire is the wash specialist. Among the best tattoo ink brands Eikon carries, Eternal is the broad-catalogue colour anchor, the line to standardise on when colour range is the priority. Setting up a station from scratch? Pair your ink with professional tattoo cartridges from the same order.