i have just come accross a listing for an ear piercing gun that is advertising it as being designed for noses amd even the tragus, As a body piercer of 9 years i find this most disturbing as the ear piercing...
Having bought a few tattoo machines from several places, then got rid of them or reworked them, I think its time to set people straight. When you buy, ask the seller if they know the details of the machine, or...
I am writing this guide as the number of people buying tattoo equipment from ebay is increasing ,so this guide is based for people thinking about getting into tattooing and also buying tattoo machines and...
1. Make sure your elastic bands are not too slack as your needle will wobble, too tight and it will slow your machine down.2. If your needle bar does not securely fit the grommet it will rattle and lose power,...
I Bought a Tattoo Machine from this guy here on E-bay from the States, Tyler Mason. He Hand builds all of his machines and tunes them himself, I took a chane and it paid off. This Guy knows what he is doing,...
Use a 7 needle liner.It produces a wide enough outline and this makes the job much faster. Also with a wide outline it is much easier to produce a nice curve or straight line then it is using a five needle or...
A technique of outlining without any ink. You use just water and no ink This leaves a red bloodline for the time that you are doing that tattoo, and then goes away when the tattoo heals. Bloodlines are used...
1 How a tattoo machine is running is referred to as machine function or machine set-up. There are two factors that describe machine function. They are:the speed of the machine the force of the machine The...
After the tattoo is complete you may want to bandage the tattoo. Basic First Aid teaches us that denying a wound of oxygen will dramatically slow the healing time. Since the invention of the plastic wrap,...
The 8 wrap coil is used mostly when doing an outline with a 1,3,4, and a 5 needle outliner. I would not recommend using an 8 wrap coil outliner machine when doing larger outline work such as when a 8 or 14...