Look at the mark that a 3-year-old English boy has left for a reaction to a temporary tattoo which has been done while on vacation in Benidorm.
It is typical that children want to take a souvenir of their vacation by getting a tattoo or braids on the beach (with the same comb that has been combed before twenty children). But we have to be cautious with these things because they can cost dearly. And I don't mean money.
The story is that Vinnie went very excited to a street stall to get a temporary tattoo, supposedly of henna although it was black, with the image of Bart Simpson's character, incidentally, of considerable size.
Days after returning home the boy complained of pain in his arm and saw how the area of the tattoo had reddened and blistered. According to doctors, the scar may remain for life, as if it were a true tattoo. What a joke!
I've been researching a bit about henna for tattoos so we're aware. True henna tattoos are not black, vegetable ink has a reddish brown hue that disappears after 10 days. Apparently, some people make temporary tattoos with “black henna” which is actually a synthetic dye, illegal to perform tattoos because it contains para-phenylenediamine, a substance that can cause blisters, ulcers, scars and health problems for life.
Unfortunately, it is because of the bad experiences of others that we learn these things. Let's open our eyes to not be next.
