LA Times 2021 Gift Guide
Thank you Los Angeles Times for choosing us as a great gift for gen z this year. <3 The practice kit is an excellent choice for people to practice with before doing a permanent design on themselves 😉
How to stick and poke tattoo freckles
By Ink the Diaspora, Tann Parker
You are either a real ass bitch or a fake ass bitch in these streets. Who cares if your freckles are fake. Cosmetic tattooing has been around for centuries. It’s a risky business that’s why it hasn’t been popularized in the mainstream. You should treat the process of giving yourself tattoo freckles as a scared embellishments.
With any at home tattooing you should make a clean and sterile space to work. The freckle placement should be mapped out in compliment to your face. Making sure each freckle is in their well intended spot. Deciding on color should be as intentional as possible. Don’t just tattoo black dots on your face, over time with sun exposure, you can’t be sure how they will look.
I would avoid pores on your face. […]
Men’s Health magazine on stick & poke tattoos
Check us out in Men’s Health Magazine! It was a pleasure to speak with Brett Williams for this piece.
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Our How to Stick and Poke Tattoo video reached 1/2 Million viewers recently! We strive to educate people on how to do DIY tattooing at home in the safest way possible. History teaches us that “folks are gunna poke.” Through sharing info, we can decrease bacterial infection, decrease spread of disease, and increase empowerment in one’s own body!
We have many videos on many subjects around home tattooing, hand-poking, stick and poking and are working on a few more now. Follow us on YouTube and Instagram to get the latest info.
To view our videos on our site, click on a video comment below. To view on our youtube channel, click here.
Pandemic-created stick and poke artists
We put out a call to our community on social media to share about their pandemic home tattoo experience. COVID has caused sheltering in place and a rise in at-home activities such stick and poke tattooing. Our sales went WAY up. We were the topic of a VICE article, NEW YORK TIMES article and the Calvary Times! (The Calvary times was great, tbh). Many new artists emerged from the “stay at home” orders implemented around the globe. Here are some pictures and words from a few new hand-poke artists:
Shar, who is @offgridink on Instagram said that our kit made them “fall in love with tattooing” –
which is the sweetest compliment to the kit. Here is more from them:
“I started stick and poke tattooing out of necessity when I moved far out of the city and couldn’t make the trip often for new tattoos. I was also living somewhere very rural […]
Defund the Police
Defund The Police, Fund Communities
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This business is queer and white owned. My business & I were both born in Oakland, California. The home of the Black Panthers! I feel called to share and spread the word about the what’s going on in order to hopefully reach other white people, business owners & stick and pokers. I do not believe we need police as we know them today. We live in a police state – and this is very harmful for all of us. Did you know that are very few “bad people?” Even fewer “lazy” people. Percentage wise, 99% of people want to be in community with others, on good terms, feeling supportive and supported. Doing what they love, spending time with family, etc. It’s human nature. We have police and prisons filled with people that were acting not out of evil, needing to be locked away, but out […]
New Video: Color swatch tattoos for dark skin
Tann (they/them) is the creator of Ink the Diaspora, a platform that is for visibility of brown & dark skin folks who struggle to find representation for tattoos. Based in New York, Tann finds a great interest as their job as tattoo consultant. The interest is so great that they start to learn to tattoo themselves. Learn about Tann starting their journey as a stick and poke artist. Learn about different ink colors on different skin tones. How undertones play a role in tattoo color visibility and how color swatches can help. Tann plans to offer simple color swatches for folks with dark skin to assist them and artists in creating large colorful pieces.
Read more about Tann on our blog.
Pictured supplies are available in our DIY hand poke tattoo kit – check us out.
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Ink the Diaspora & Deep Undertones
Ink the Diaspora In the Industry
In the Diaspora (ITD) is described in the Instagram Bio as:
a platform that is for visibility of brown&dark skin folks who struggle to find representation 4 tattoos.
Tann Parker (who uses they/them pronouns) is based in Brooklyn and created ITD when they saw a great need. They are currently a tattoo consultant – they provide information and advocacy for people wanting tattoo related resources, including referrals for artists who are skilled and accustomed to working on dark skin.
Tann reached out to us to be one of our Sponsored Artists. After reading about their relationship with the tattoo industry and the difference they are making in education and empowering people, of course I agreed. Tann is now embarking on a journey to teach themself stick and poke (or ‘hand poke’) tattooing so that they can give […]
Why Boycott Amazon and choose these alternatives instead?
Amazon (also, Whole Foods) – First, they bullied the cute book stores out of our towns, and now they threaten to monopolize and automate online commerce and health food industry into a profit machine for a few executives at the expense of all tax payers.
As a former seller on Amazon, I have my own personal experience on how they “prioritize” the buyers at the expense of the sellers – often small businesses like my own. They force lowering prices (sales) and allow fake trademark violators to sell alongside you. Birkenstock took their products off Amazon for this reason and I have followed suit. I have experienced a loss of sales since leaving Amazon, and it has been difficult to leave as a buyer…that Amazon Prime can be soooo good and easy.
In turning to these alternatives (below) for my personal and business shopping, I have made a commitment to the striking […]
Gravit Design PRO Free ($99)
We want stick and pokes to be beautiful. It seems like every year they are getting more complicated and better designed! How long do you need to design the perfect tattoo? How about a year?
Now, we’re offering one WHOLE year of the Gravit Designer Pro subscription (value $99USD) with any kit purchase today through November 2019 as long as supplies last!
Gravit is an easy to use design program that is widely used by modern artists and designers. It is PERFECT for designing those gorgeous tattoos!
If you got a code in your kit, instructions on using your code is below:
- Click here.
- Create an account (or login to an existing Free or Trial account)
- Once in the app, click on a Buy link to purchase
- On the cart page, click on “Add a Coupon Code”
- Enter your Coupon Code and watch the price […]