Stick n Poke
Discover everything you need to know about stick ‘n poke tattoos. Explore guides, safety tips, DIY tutorials, and inspiration for creating hand-poked tattoos at home with high-quality, sterile supplies.
Toxic Inks No More! The EU ban may create safer inks
The EU is known for strict consumer protection, and coming from the US, honestly, it's refreshing. They just laid the law down to protect 1/4 of their citizens - the portion of Europeans likely to get a tattoo. In the US, we seem to be going the other way,
How to use a carbon stencil
Recently, our stencil transfer paper supplier (vegan, made in the USA, premium brand) accidentally sent us green carbon paper stencil paper instead of our standard green freehand paper. This confused a lot of people, but it is also a great moment to learn about different stencil paper. Sidenote: we use
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
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.
YouTube Comments :-)
Hooray! 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
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
Color swatch tattoos for deep skin tones
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
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
Video about tattoo needles
New video alert! Click the video below to watch Naz explain about tattoo needle types and how each type of needle is used! Naz explains the numbers and letters on the packaging and the arrangement of the tips of different kinds of needles. This is very helpful for every beginner
