Q. How and why did you get into Tattooing? Who are your heroes or your inspiration? I got into tattooing by chance really. I was taking evening courses at the Royal Fine Arts Academy in Brussels while working another job. I used to hang out at the tattoo shop on the corner of my street, and the guy saw my drawings and said I should get into it. Went on an extended holiday to Greece that summer and met a few people from a local tattoo studio,...

Q. How and why did you get into Tattooing? Who are your heroes or your inspiration? Guy Aitchison is definitely the biggest hero I have, others include Trent pare, Clint Danroth, Aaron Cain. Just bugged the local tattooist to train me .I bugged him every day for almost a year then one day he finally said yes. So there's definitely something to be said about being persistent. Q. How long have you been a tattooist? All said about ten years...

When properly used, autoclaves are an important part of any tattoo shop's overall sanitation program to keep both customers and artists safe from potential infections. An autoclave is a pressurized device designed to heat aqueous solutions above their boiling point to achieve sterilization. It was invented by Charles Chamberland in 1879. The term autoclave is also used to describe an industrial machine in which elevated temperature and...

Hygiene The properly equipped Tattoo Studios|tattoo studio will use biohazard containers for objects that have come into contact with blood or bodily fluids , sharps containers for old needles , and an Autoclaves|autoclave for sterilizing tools. Certain jurisdictions also require studios by law to have a sink in the work area supplied with both hot and cold water. Proper hygiene requires a body modification artist to wash his or her...

Also known as India ink, and Chinese ink, Indian Ink is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics and comic strips. Indian ink can be used for home-made tattoos (sometimes called "stick and poke" or "prison" tattoos), by repeatedly stabbing the skin with a sharp sewing needle wrapped in ink-soaked thread. Indian ink usually is not suitable for fountain...

Tattoo inks Modern tattooing inks, (as opposed to traditional Tattoo Pigments And Dyes|tattoo pigments and dyes) are carbon based pigments that have uses outside of commercial tattoo applications. Although the United States Food and Drug Administration technically requires premarket approval of pigments it has not actually approved the use of any ink or pigments for tattooing (because of a lack of resources for such relatively minor...

A tattoo machine is a hand-held device generally used to create a tattoo, a permanent marking of the skin with ink. Modern tattoo machines use alternating electromagnetic coils to move a needle bar up and down, driving pigment into the skin. Tattoo artists generally use the word "machine", or even "iron", to refer to their equipment, while amateurs and collectors often use the term "gun". How It Works Basically the machine works...

As the place where most people will go to get their tattoos done, to ask questions, and find designs, tattoo studios range in quality and character, and finding one that's right for you is important. It may be that there aren't any studios locally, or you feel you're limited to the artists who live and work near you, but there are a few things you can definately tell about a tattoo studio just by keeping your eyes open and looking for a few...

Tattoo equipment ranges from products for sanitation and hygiene like Autoclaves|autoclaves, to the actual tools used for tattooing such as the Tattoo Machines|tattoo machines themselves, and Tattoo Needles|tattoo needles. There are also many products for Tattoo Care|aftercare and healing available on the market.

Irezumi - Japanese Tattooing The Japanese language the Japanese word '''irezumi''' (入れ墨, 入墨, 紋身, 刺花, 剳青, 黥 or 刺青) refers to the insertion of ink under the skin to leave a permanent, usually decorative mark, in other words, '''tattooing'''. The word can be written in several ways, each with slightly different connotations. The most common way of writing irezumi is with the Chinese Characters|Chinese characters 入れ墨 or 入墨, literally...