Our Story — Hand-Drawn Temp Tattoos by Real Artists
Hand-drawn temporary tattoos, in real ink, by real artists.
For the 3 to 7 days you wear them.
LastingDays started because temporary tattoos had gotten boring.
You'd go online and everything looked the same — recycled clip art, Pinterest scrapes, mass-produced flower outlines that somehow ended up on every brand's site. It felt like nobody was actually drawing anything anymore.
So we built a label that works the opposite way. Every design in our catalog starts with a pen in a real artist's hand — mostly students and emerging illustrators we pay per piece. No AI-generated designs. No Pinterest copies. No stock-art shortcuts. Just original work, printed cleanly onto a temporary tattoo you can wear for three to seven days.
Creative direction is led by Zane, who picks the roster and keeps the aesthetic coherent — our Soft Anime Rabbit doesn't accidentally clash with our Cosmic Spiral Galaxy. Every artist gets credit on the designs they drew.
We launched our own semi-permanent jagua line in 2026 — same plant-ink chemistry family as Inkbox For Now Ink, 8–14 day wear. For shorter wear, our 3–7 day standard line is what you want. We won't pretend the lines are interchangeable does. What we are is the honest version: real artwork, real ink, real three-to-seven days. $6.99 to $12.99, not $25.
If that sounds like your energy, we made these for you.
— Zane + the LastingDays artist collective
Our Two Product Lines
Most of what we make is the standard water-transfer line, $6.99 to $12.99 a design. You wet a paper backing, press it on, peel after thirty seconds, and the design wears for three to seven days before it starts to flake. It is the same format Inkbox built its catalog on before they closed and the format Tattly used for fifteen years. We use FDA-listed cosmetic pigments and print in small batches on water-release film, then ship from the U.S.
The second line is semi-permanent, $13.99 to $25.99 a design, and it uses jagua fruit extract — the same chemistry family as Inkbox For Now Ink. You apply it like a sticker, leave the gel on the skin for an hour, then let it oxidize over the next twenty-four to thirty-six hours. The color deepens to a dark blue-black and wears eight to fourteen days. The catalog there is smaller and we are expanding it slowly. Both lines are vegan, skin-safe, and made by independent artists we work with directly.
Designs People Choose Most
- Black Cat & Floral Splash — a witchy cat silhouette tangled in painterly flowers, sized for the forearm or shoulder.
- Blue Flame Butterfly — dual-tone blue and red wings with a flame-edge treatment that reads bold from a distance.
- Autumn Unicorn — a soft pink unicorn surrounded by maple leaves — our most-shared design through fall.
- Bunny Face Collection — a sheet of small kawaii rabbit portraits you can place separately or as a cluster.
- Butterfly Garden Corner — cascading flowers and butterflies designed to sit on a collarbone, hip, or ankle.
- Candy Swirl Dream — pastel hearts, stars, and ribbons in one continuous swirl — sized for a wrist or upper arm.
Read More from the Journal
- Where to buy now that Inkbox and Tattly are gone — the short list of brands still operating, sorted by what you actually need.
- The four jagua brands that replace Inkbox — by use case — festival, wedding, kids, color match.
- The variables that actually matter for wear time — skin oil, placement, friction, and what to skip in your routine.
- Designs that survive your whole trip — what to apply Sunday night so it lasts through a fourteen-day vacation.