Try Before You Buy: Inkhunter App

I don’t know about you, but when it came to getting my tattoos (well, all but one), I took my time and really thought them out before I headed into the shop. My very first tattoo was of three small music notes on my hand and I drew the design on myself with a pen for several days before making the decision to get it done. My next one was a treble clef and bass clef combined to make a heart above my hip. To make sure that I would be capable of looking at it daily without regret, I painted a floor to ceiling mural of the design in my bedroom. After six months of not wanting to paint over it, I decided to go in and make it final.

While I may not be a highly skilled artist, I do have some basic skills which have allowed me to test out the designs myself before going forward. However, if you’re as artistic as a monkey with a dull crayon, don’t fret. There’s now an app for that.

InkHunter, an app available on the Apple marketplace, was crafted by a group of innovative Ukrainian techies who saw a void in an industry they loved so dearly. What the app accomplishes is a real-time, realistic view of how a tattoo would look upon your skin. Users are able to select a design from the InkHunter’s existing database or upload their own image/sketch. Placing the phone’s camera over the desired body part, the augmented reality technology of the app will superimpose the image over the individual’s selected area. You can then snap a photograph of the image containing the imposed tattoo. From there, you can edit the photo, add filters, et cetera. You can hang on to it, post it to give grandma a fright, or get feedback from family and friends regarding the tattoo’s appearance.