Inked Mag Staff
April 29th, 2015
10 Things Your Tattoo Artist Wants You To Know
Tattooing—both the acts of getting and giving tattoos—is a complicated thing. In fact, there are way more ins-and-outs to the process than the average person realizes. If you don’t spend…
Tattooing—both the acts of getting and giving tattoos—is a complicated thing. In fact, there are way more ins-and-outs to the process than the average person realizes. If you don’t spend 60 hours a week in a tattoo shop you might not know all of the proper etiquette that will make your session go far more smoothly. In the past we have given tips on how what you should do in order to prepare for your tattoo, how to go about picking a tattoo design and who you should bring with you to get that ink. Now we are going to let you in on 10 things your tattoo artist wants you to know. Some of these are relatively obvious while others are things you might never have thought about, but the common factor between them all is that your tattoo artist’s life will be far easier if you had this knowledge.
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