Show Your Personality With Zodiac Tattoo Designs

As a part of essential tattoo equipment, tattoo ink is supplied in most tattoo stores. You must have heard someone telling you that possible risks are associated with it, but do you actually know that?

First and foremost, the most obvious way to gauge an artist’s competency is too look at their previous work. While glancing flashes on a wall and some sketches is a nice start, you won’t really know how excellent a particular tattoo artist is until you see some of their prior work. They might have a ton of skill with a pad and paper, but a needle on skin is a completely different skillset.

To seek an internship, the best thing you can do is go from parlor to parlor and ask for one, but bring your portfolio with you. Some may be short-term and others may be long-term but, either way, the experience will be crucial. It may even be a good idea to intern at more than one place just to get the perspective of more than one experienced tattoo equipment artist. Of course, if you have a friend in the business, do not hesitate to ask for help. Their experience and mentoring can be very helpful.

Always take time to exhaustively check out a tattoo studio before you get a tattoo, so that you know you have chosen a clean one. Don’t be embarrassed about asking questions to make sure that the tattoo artists properly clean the instruments they use. You’ll find out about they way they do business and their cleaning routine if you hang around the studio for some time. You wont have to worry about infection from dirty implements if you can see that they are clean and pretty tidy.

In my studio, we get a steady stream of people from the flea markets around us coming in asking what we can do to improve their tattoos obtained at a discount. Often the fixes cost 2 to 5 times more than the original cost of the discount tattoo. Most flea market tattoo artists can’t be trusted to tell you the truth about how long they have been tattooing. I once gave a pair of tattoo machines to a guy at a flea market because he helped me locate the person who burglarized my studio. A week or so later, I had customers coming in asking for me to fix work they’d gotten there, and they told me that same person was claiming to have been tattooing for 6 years, when in actuality, he had only started after I gave him his first pair of tattoo machines!

Getting back to tattoo artists. It is as important to find a talented tattoo sterilization equipment artist as it is finding your dream design. When looking for a shop and an artist, ask to see some previous work that the artist has done. He/she will probably have a portfolio of some previous works. You can ask for references as well. Also, look around the shop for cleanliness. Make sure the artist’s work area and equipment are neat and clean.

Now that you have found your shop & your artist what do you need? In my experience the more prepared the client is the happier they are years down the road. Bring in what ever reference material you have. At this point be flexible. You chose this artist because you liked their artwork, let them put their spin or style into it. Also remember there are many things that look great on paper but do not translate well to skin. A good artist will sit with you & come up with something that you want that will still look great in 20 years. As I said earlier most shops will require a non refundable deposit. This insures the artist doesn’t draw for hours & you never come back. It also protects the artist from holding a time open they could have had another client in.

Pricing is based off of skill level. If you are looking for the cheapest tattoo you are looking for the least skilled artist. As a general rule the better artists work faster so their hourly rate increases. Tattoo studios are not flea markets, do not haggle your artist on prices. Tips are always appreciated but should never be expected. Most people tip similar to restaurants.