Viscot Mini XL Surgical Markers / 10 Pack / Tattoo stencil pen - Surgical Marker

I don't use these markers for tats, I use them for immuneglobin-G self-infusions. I use them to mark four infusion sites on my abdomen to use lidocaine covered with Tegraderms prior to infusing, I let them sit about 90 minutes or so before infusing. Not a lot of fun having needles in my abdomen for an hour and a half every week, but it keeps me healthy. For my application, they're perfect. High visibility, and they don't wipe away when you clean off the lidocaine cream with alcohol wipes after they've soaked in. The circles are visible for 2-4 days with showering daily, but they don't show through a white cotton shirt, so no big deal. Yes, the lines spread a bit, but for my application that's not an issue.

Im a permanent makeup artist and I bought these to work with. I drew on my client’s face before microblading and after I was finished, the marker did not come out. I tried EVERYTHING. literally EVERYTHING and nothing worked. It took about a week for the purple eyebrows to fade from her face. I am never using them again and I do not recommend.

They tend to bleed a lot and are not meant for accurate drawing.

Solid pens. No complaints

These ten markers are indeed long-lasting (and vividly purple, at least on my skin), which is mainly what I was looking for. So far, the design has stayed on for the past five days, only now starting to slightly fade (though the design is, as of right now, still clear even after many showers, lotions, etc. to see if it could be scrubbed off). However, as other reviewers have mentioned, the markers both 1) bleed when applied to the skin (and stay with the ~1cm bleed continually after, meaning you will not have sharp lines for the temporary design/mark if that is your goal) and 2) also slowly smear onto any light-colored material pressed against the area (so I would not wear anything white or in pale colors especially unless you do not care how they might get stained after). Neither the smears nor the markers themselves show up on my dark clothes (but I also haven't tried on anything but dark grudge clothes that it wouldn't really matter if they got stained). I found them useful for roughing in a tattoo placement to see how I liked having any ink there (the actual design colors are not purple), but the markers are not great for detailed work if that is what you are looking for (such as for very precise tattooing where a detailed guide is needed or temporary tattooing if that's what you are interested in). They might be fun for a general costume skin accents if you do not mind having it last for a minimum of a week, likely longer based on other reviews (though, again, mine has show slight signs of fading at five days, so I am hoping it will fade before two weeks at least).