Getting Tattooed: What to Expect

Before you head off to the tattoo studio you may be wondering what to expect out of the experience. There are typically five steps to the tattooing procedure:

1. Stencil Application. After your tattooist has put on rubber gloves and professionally prepared the skin to be tattooed (generally by cleaning and shaving), they’ll apply your design stencil. Before this happens be sure to take a few moments to look over the design one last time, making sure that it’s exactly what you want and checking things such as the spelling of certain words etc. The stencil will generally be made using a thermofax machine and carbon copy…

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Be sure to look for the new book: This May Sting a Bit: 101 things your tattoo artist forgot to tell you and you were probably too afraid to ask.

Getting Tattooed: What to Expect

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How to Tattoo Book

Here are the details of the Book Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo – where you can purchase.

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Are you a tattoo apprentice?

Do you plan on getting a tattoo apprenticeship?

Are you a professional tattoo artist who has an apprentice?

If so then you could probably benefit from this textbook. Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo does not claim to be some “Tattoo Bible” or the “A to Z” guide. This book will not promise to have you opening your own tattoo studio with a perforated business plan that is located on page 105. Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo is realistic, and any professional will tell you that a realistic outlook on the tattoo industry requires the intent of a full apprenticeship.

Over 240 Pages! + Access to the Portal

Even if you decide to go to one of those “Tattoo Schools” you see advertised everywhere these days, you should still complete an apprenticeship. Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo covers all the basic things that will prepare you for an apprenticeship. Everything is covered; from the sanitation side of the house to the machine building and tuning. This is an entry level book and designed for the total tattoo beginner. This does not mean that someone who has been tattooing for some time will not benefit from this guide as well though.
Basic Fundaments has an added perk that the other books that are available don’t seem to offer, TMTT! That’s right Teach Me To Tattoo (TMTT) is an online learning support community. You have access here to the FREE forum. Even if you don’t purchase the book you will get access to the forum for free! You can ask questions, critique other apprentice’s work – and much more.

If you do purchase the book you will gain access to the Teach Me To Tattoo – 
Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo Support Portal.
The portal is an advanced search engine and database that catalogs a lot of the topics in the book, and allows you to ask specific questions about individual sections of the book. You can see responses from other apprentices who own the book as well. The portal is expanding rapidly and more topics are added daily. Once you purchase the book Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo you will have access to the Portal as long as it is in existence!

How to Tattoo Book

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If you have purchased Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo, you can get this intro DVD Disk 1 (120 minutes)

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Tattoo website updates

Re-launching www.MyFirstTattoo.info, and some other sites! Also trying to get the bugs out of the “Twitter” posting stuff (sorry if you saw like 1000 tweets from me last night). Remember to grab a copy of the welcome tattoo DVD and basic fundamentals of modern tattoo. New DVDs are coming and you will get added to the mailing lists for the discounts. We are looking for some tattoo artists / apprentice(s) who want to earn a little money writing for us, and blogging. Drop me a line if you are interested. blogger @TattooBooksOnline.com

 

Tattoo website updates

Eikon EMS300

http://www.eikondevice.com

If your best friend jumped off a bridge would you? Eikon comes up with amazing solid products and their innovation has helped a ton of new tattoo artists to rapidly and consistently excel at their trade. The EMS line of power supplies is no exception to that legacy. The 300 series was the hot shit in town for a while until it started to get knocked off left and right. I am pretty sure the cyclone was mass produced after the EMS 300? Either way, this power supply was a huge jump (in my opinion) forms the EMS200 that we all thought was really fancy and kind of cute. This power supply measures some important things for those of us who love to know every inch of the process or who want to try to replicate a good day at the office at a later date. I have to say that I was disappointed when the first batch of these power supplies arrived at our tattoo studio, we pulled them out of the box and it was like I had just watched a bunch of guys jump off the bridge. The Eikon EMS300 works very well, but feels kind of cheap and flimsy. I have a feeling that all magic happens with the computer circuit board inside that allows the unit to be really light. I have seen and used some knock off Eikon EMS 300 style power supplies, and I have seen them fall apart after a few weeks of use. While the EMS 300 seems cheap and flimsy, it is actually pretty well built. The metered stuff is cool if you are the type of person who loves to know all that kind of information. I personally use it when building machines, just to check out where I am in the build. It is a great tool and I recommend that you get one of the Eikon EMS line power supplies, but I personally prefer to tattoo with my plain Jane Pulse power supply. The Eikon EMS 300 gets the job done, and I love the technology and innovation from this company. Every artists tattoos differently and uses their own tools that they are comfortable with. As a general review of this product I have to say it is one of the most technologically advanced power supplies out there, it runs consistent, and it is handy. As a personal preference I don’t like to tattoo with it though.

PROS: Everything you want to know about how your machine is running is right there. Easy to cover with plastic wrap. Huge knob for adjusting power. Runs clean and consistent.

CONS: Feels kind of cheap as far as the weight of the device.

RATING: 8/10

Eikon EMS300

Costal Waters Tattoo Machine

http://www.papillonsupply.com

I purchased two of these machines a while back, one in liner and one in shader configuration. Papillion is well known for their starbrite tattoo pigment, but these machines are definitely on a lo tof people’s radar. Great price and solid design, these machines are my favorites. The shader more so than the liner. They tend to be on the heavier side as far as machines go, but nothing too extravagant. I cannot stress enough how well these machines run and how classic the geometry is. The only thing that bugs the hell out of me with them is the hardware is primarily composed of cross tip screws, which I am not a fan of. I immediately rip these off and replace (only 10 minute job that costs a dollar for some new hardware) them and I am back in business. This minor hassle is definitely overshadowed by the perfection of th way these machines run. I think it is a combination of the springs and the coils, but I love these machines.

PROS: Runs amazing, stays in tune, ferrous frame, solid coils, Percy Waters geometry.

CONS: Cross-tip screws for hardware.

RATING: 8/10

Costal Waters Tattoo Machine