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 will win the tattoo kit with free shipping! Not gunna lie, I kinda like the cactus best ;-P
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 result is quite nice - and fine lettering is hard to do. I hope that future tattoos by Ben and Alexis can be done more safely.
Check out my kit and the instruction manual there within....:-D
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 was magnificent - the style is like no other tattoo. It was hand poked. Also, I once wrote her a thrice-edited, careful email about my company, about what it means, about what I am trying to do (and not trying to do). She wrote back - and unlike the feedback I usually get from professional tattoo artists (lots of expletives, few complete sentences), she wrote a thoughtful, helpful response - but ultimately she against the idea. What I appreciated about this exchange was that she told me why. Her concerns were with the safety of the public....
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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 Scotland who was pee-oed by a stick and poke tattoo – namely the new one on his 16 year old son. A kit was somehow sold to his son's friend who then gave him the tattoo. I feel his pain. My intention is never to assist in under age tattoos. I take great measures to prevent these kits from being sold to minors. In my online check out, there is a restriction on credit card holders who are under 18. It is also written everywhere, in the sales agreement, and stores that sell my kits must card the buyer. This does [...]
Colors! If you want to read more about the colors and color mixing, please go to the bloodline website.
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!!! Made from mango, coco, papaya and Shea butters, it brings tremendous amounts of benefits: It will NOT remove stencils. NO more petroleum! HBDlx® Promotes healing upon contact, MINIMIZES redness, swelling and bleeding. Skin remains workable: no more over worked highlights, yellows & whites go in the first time, color never went in so easy. Used in place of petroleum based products, HUSTLE BUTTER DELUXE® will heal fresh tattoos quicker with results that are unmatched...results that last a LIFETIME...
Just watch them hustle:
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 boredom & feeling special. One step over a mani-pedi party, a stick and poke party is forever. That is, if you consider your skin life to be "forever." News for ya: You are going to live triple digits max, and then that tattoo will return to it's elements along with your stiff smelly body. In any case, it is pretty fun to do this sort of thing with a friend. Just the other day, I got a ladybug on my ankle my 4th date got a grounded symbol on hers. I hope she won't electrocute me in [...]
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 of tattoo removal.
TED talks - just what you want to know and just how you want to learn it...check it out.
-A box of collected skulls (cool!)
-A magical healing mixture box with essential oil, personalized journal, a precious stone necklace and kind words
-$38 worth at a local bar/restaurant
-Artwork (that I was interested in)
-Social networking promotions - take like 6 good pictures of consenting people with hand poke tattoos. Add an interesting sentence about each and we call it an article. Send it over [...]
