This is a helpful list to consider before stick and poke tattooing…
What NOT to do when tattooing yourself.
1. Just start poking without sanitizing the area. Maybe you could host some friendly flesh eating bacteria?
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2. Use any ink laying around the house (the worst: pen ink and printer ink). Maybe you could just inject some toxicย chemicals ย directlyย into your bloodstream?
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3. Share ink or needle with a friend. Maybe you could be a test subject for the new HIV Vaccine?
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4. Be drunk or under the influence of a state altering drug. Maybe you could give yourself a permanent reminder of the night you discovered your affinity ย for Moscow Mules?
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5. Buy a tattoo machine to try out at home. Maybe you could fuck up real big, instead of a little big?
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6. Use a dirty sewing needle.ย Maybe you can test your childhood tetanus shot’s effectiveness?
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