LECTURES

Machines, Instruments, and supplies

When beginning, your tattooing supplies should always include needles, tubes, tips, and grips, ink, a machine, stencil products, and a power supply.

Check the resources section for tattoo supply vendors.

tattoo machines and kits

There are a variety of tattoo kits and machines at various price points. When starting out, a lower priced machine for practice would be ideal. Once you want to get started on people, are thinking about becoming a professional and like what you’ve practiced, consider the following kits.

the canvas

There are many different types of tones, textures and depths when it comes to skin. Each type has a different way to manage them.

Check the resources section for more information on understanding needle depths when tattooing.

Tattoo care

Every tattoo artist has their own tattoo care method. This method is the one that your artist uses and finds appropriate. After getting a tattoo, be sure to follow these instructions.

Check the resources section for more information on the stages of healing a tattoo.

tattoo Trends and styles

There's such a wide variety of tattoo styles and artists create new ones every day. Many of these designs stem from historically popular tattoo styles, many of which have been around for decades, sometimes even centuries.