hind them are endless stories of
battles against deadly diseases,
tributes to family or friends,
heritage, interests, medical
alerts, love, heartbreak, or they
may be just from the love of art
itself in the form of a beautiful
pinup girl or your favorite flower, but, you can be sure that
each piece means something
special to the person who chooses it. You can even have your
make-up permanently tattooed
on, what a time saver that
would be.
Most people who have tattoos trust their artist as they
would their doctor, once you
find the right one for you, you
stay with them, and tattooist
themselves have earned this respect from clients. When you
walk into a tattoo studio today
you do not find the dark dingy
“parlor” from 50 years ago, instead you find a bright clean
studio with stations that are
very much like exam rooms in a
doctor’s office. Everything is
sterile and the tattooist themselves are constantly aware of
your safety and well-being,
they are practically obsessive
about constantly changing
gloves and keeping the skin
clean during the entire process.
The tattooist themselves are
now amazing artists who draw
incredible pieces of original artwork at your request, but still
offer books with page after
page of flash art to choose from
as well.
Of course with the good always comes the bad, and in the
tattoo community the bad is
the “Scratcher”, these are people who attempt to tattoo out
of their homes, with no means
of sterilization, or concern for
the safety of the person they
are tattooing. This is a serious
issue since lack of sterile needles
and equipment can result in