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
Learn it right: From a Professional Hand Poker
I met Ruby Jae in her gorgeous studio - a space that is pleasing to all the senses & shared with other tattoo artists (at Diving Swallow in downtown Oakland). I was nervous. Reason being that I had seen her magical art on the bodies of my friends - it
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
New! Ink Colors!
Colors! If you want to read more about the colors and color mixing, please go to the bloodline website.
Hustle Butter After Care Balm
Now a new better after care is in each kit!!! It is vegan and cuddly... HUSTLE BUTTER: Now included in our kits... HUSTLE BUTTER DELUXE® is a 100% vegan REPLACEMENT, for all petroleum based products, used as tattoo lubricants BEFORE, DURING and AFTER the tattoo process... TO TATTOO AND HEAL!!!
Eek – FDA recalls contaminated ink and needles
!!! FYI All Stick and Pokers !!! There has been a recall on some ink and needles sold online. Just to clarify - this is NOT the kind of ink that is our kits. We put in there: "BloodLine/SkinCandy" ink and it is the highest quality you can get.
Partner Tattoo Time
Introducing the first ever: Partner Kit. This kit has enough for two people to safely poke. Just make sure that you throw everything out & pour new ink before starting the second person... Stick and Poke (hand poke) history is steeped in partner tattooing. The culture is: late night bedroom
The Biology of Tattoos
This video explains why ink stays in the epidermis (skin) - and is not shed or taken away via the body's reaction to it's annoyance with foreign stuff in there. Have you thanked your macrophages & fibroblasts today? Also - why to wear sun screen to preserve your tattoos & the science
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
