摘要 |
<p>A temporary tattoo (10) formed from an image-bearing laminate (12/16) for attachment to human skin. The laminate (12/16) includes a printable release coating (24/26) on a backing sheet (22) and an image (14) printed with ink on the printable release coating (24/26). A film (28) that is impenetrable to the ink is attached to the image (14), and includes adhesive (32) on an exposed face of the film (28). The coating (26), image (14) and film (28) may be attached to human skin by pressing the combination of the coating (26), image (14), film (28) and adhesive (32) on skin (200). A method of creating the temporary tattoo (10) includes the steps of providing a coated release sheet (12), printing an image (14) on the coated release sheet (12), providing a film (28), covering the image (14) with the film (28) so that the image (14) is located between the film (28) and the coating (26) of the release sheet (12) to create a film/image/coating laminate (12/16), attaching the film/image/coating laminate (12/16) to skin (200), and removing a backing sheet (22) of the release sheet (12) from the film/image/coating laminate (12/16).</p> |