Down and Dirty Body Artists

“Remember, allowing a renegade body artist work on you is like playing Russian Roulette – your chances are exponentially higher for ending up with a terrible infection, injury or worse. There are many recorded cases of people dying from complications from infections related to illegal body piercings or tattoos…”

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”

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”

Where to get quality body piercing kits

“A quality professional-grade body piercing kit should include the following items; sterile, pre-packaged hollow piercing needles(s), skin preparation (benzalkonium chloride is better than alcohol at disinfecting and does not dry the skin out), piercing tool(s) like forceps (that are sterilized and packaged for immediate use), and the most important of all, sterile body jewelry that has been autoclave sterilized for your (and your client’s) protection…”

When is free shipping really free?

“Not only did we confirm that this company is the only company that really does give you free shipping without minimum requirements, but they also give you bonus points with every purchase that can be redeemed for additional free merchandise”