In 2021, a company called Ephemeral Tattoo launched a tattoo ink "made to fade" — that the body would dissolve. Three years later, some clients say -- they haven't faded well.

In the back of Beloved Studios in Roseville,, JC Stroebel and Jesse George are equal parts tattoo artist and superfan.

NYC’s first blackout tattoo artist, a man who’s lived and breathed the ink game since 2007. From tattooing clients across ...