Sweepstakes!
Everyone who ordered a kit got an email from me about a free new Experienced Kit if you won our lil contest. Here are some of the brave DIY artist entries. I'd say quite nice for home tattoos! Please visit our Instagram (@sticknpoketattookit) to vote for your fave. The most votes
Poking in 2007 – Throw Back Thursday
We've come so far! Out with the old, in with the new.... This article, "Stick 'n' Poke" by Ben Cho in Vice is sweet & expresses the extra feels involved in home tattooing. I do not however recommend the materials nor method that they use espesh' all the drug use. Regardless, tattoo
UNDERAGE TATTOOING: Don’t Do it.
I do get hate mail. It is usually claw dragging professional tattoo shop owners who type a form of caveman hater, “you, die, now,” with little further explanation. I expect that these guys have very unhappy partners, or none at all. However, I recently got an email from a father from
Tradezies
Want a kit? Cool! I am open to trades. I want people to have a kit if they want one - because that means they will do a safer tattoo. Dirty sewing needle? Don't do it! Pen or printer ink? - No! So, yeah, if you have something to trade or
Miley Cyrus Hand Tattoos
Sup y'all! Just some meaningless celebrity gossip to follow... Miley Cyrus has 22 tattoooooss! Many of which are on her milky white paws. Maybe more by now?! A day has passed, after all. No tattoo shaming going on here. I'm down with little permanent reminders of our crazy lives. You
Spring Induced Liver Anger, HCV, prisons and you
By Nickie Nick and Gabe Barnow "Spring-time is the time of the liver,” says my acupuncturist as I sip on my liver detox tea. What does that even MEAN? I exclaim through my modern science teacher lens? She replies calmly, as if a sheer fact, "the emotion tied to the
Belated Valentines Gesture?
Forget the flowers
Stick and poke goes Green
When doing anything, I think of the plastic. On days that I listen to NPR, I tend to avoid buying some favorite foods - like Seaweed Snacks - because those fragile sheets of salty heaven are wrapped up like gold in a plastic Fort Knox. And for what? Give me
Instagram is fun in 2014
Finally got our instagram account going (I blame my side profession [teacher] for the delay)....follow us to see some SnPs from around the Bay Area. Also will be posting little helpful videos, etc. @sticknpoketattookit
