What is the best way to become a body art technician?

“Remember, don’t start tattooing or body piercing until you have the knowledge, experience and have fulfilled the requirements required by your county health department or you could injure someone”

Need to Hide Your Body Piercing?

“The solution is called a retainer, and can be purchased to fit navel, tongue, eyebrow, nipple and even nostril piercings. Using a retainer will not guarantee discovery by those nearest you, but it could help you slip by under the radar long enough to make a clean getaway!”

Who Fears Piercing Pain the Most: Men or Women?

“It is true that pain (or the experience of feeling pain) is subjective, and in truth, there is no actual pain to fell but an ‘interpretation’ that is done inside the brain based upon varying degrees of nervous stimuli. Just as we do not actually ‘see’ our world around us (and it is interpreted through our brains), it is also true that we do not actually ‘feel’ pain either…”

Who was the first society to embrace body piercing?

“evidence of nose piercing has been recovered dating back to biblical times (2000 b.c.) in the Middle East, as well as mentions of earrings and nose rings (made of gold) are found in the book of Genesis (24:22)”

Do you need a license to buy tattoo equipment or piercing supplies?

“Disinformation and discouragement is the norm for such struggling tattoo shops, and they will outright lie to you to try to prevent you from not only obtaining the equipment you need (that they themselves have), but also to delay and thwart your rise as a tattoo artist. This process is also at work when shops began charging ridiculous fees (as high as $5000) for taking on apprentices”