So, I know these exist…but where?
Way back in high school one of the girls in my class had a pen with ink that was designed to write on skin safely and be easily washable. She had a fun time playing with it, as you might imagine. Recently I’ve tried to track these pens down. Anyone know what these might be called, what company might make them, or where I might be able to buy them?
Closest google brought me was surgical supply stuff.
How about markers?
http://www.officesupplynow.com/xcart/product.php?productid=69957
Yup, that’s what we use.
Those look excellent (oh the problems of starting with the wrong keywords). Know of any brick and mortar stores that might carry them? Michael’s doesn’t seem to.
Thank you!
I would expect that to be the kind of thing you’d find at Target, Walmart, or Toys r us.
I drew all over my wrists and hands with Sharpies when I was in high school. Not hugely washable, but it would wear off in a day or two. People often tried to tell me I would get “ink poisoning,” but while IANAD, I’m about 99.9% sure that’s bullshit.
Office Depot has them.
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know why you’d be so sure of its safety, though.
This topic would be completely different with a few extra letters in the title.:eek:
We had people like that, but it was “lead poisoning” anytime someone accidentally got a pencil “lead” stuck in them. Which actually happened a bit more often than you’d think, for some reason.
Thanks, JDT — err, TBG 
I had to stop a doctor from looking up info on lead poisoning when a dog that had eaten a pencil was brought to the ER. I had point out they are made of carbon. He wasn’t a very smart doctor. He didn’t work there for very long.
Crayola Washable Markers look like a regular marker, write on skin just the same and wash off easily. That may be easier than Erasable markers.
I have a 3 year old who loves drawing on herself. I know these things.
I couldn’t seem to find Erasable around here, but i saw Washable several times. Thanks!
This is going to end in a great deal of silly, but at least it’ll be easy to clean up
Probably because I was drawing designs on my wrists and hands, not coating my body in the stuff. I highly doubt I was using anywhere near enough ink to approach the recommended limits.
That alternate title is all I can see when scrolling through GQ.
TheKid has taken to covering her hands in delicate scrollwork when she’s bored. Not just a small design, both hands from fingertip to wrist. She’s found that gel pens, as found at Michaels in a multitude of colors, gives nice lines on the skin and washes off well.
It’s what I keep reading in my email update alerts, too, and I keep trying to remember what the hell the thread was about, until I manage to stop seeing the nonexistant “i.”
Depending on the desired effect, you may also want to give eyeliner pencils a try, either the traditional kind that are like a pastel in consistency, or the ones that are liquid-based with a felt tip. They’re obviously safe to put on your body, come in every color including some cool metallics and florescents, and you can get quite detailed with them.
Mainly I’d go this route if you wanted to avoid the wicking that sharpies and washable markers have (you know, when your fingerprints or ridges in the skin sort of irrigate the ink and it spiderwebs out from where you wrote), or if you want to be sure your work is relatively water/sweat proof (just use make-up remover or vaseline to remove it). If you don’t care about the water/sweat proof bit, I’d go with the gel pens mentioned earlier, or v5 Pilots (minimal wicking, extremely fine lines).
That’s an awesome idea.