Another contest – FREE STUFF GIVEAWAY
I find it very fulfilling to see the new body art people are making themselves...therefore we are having ANOTHER contest (as an excuse to do this). Check out some of these gems... ;-) >>>>>> Sign up for our newsletter (on the right) to get infrequent emails about contests, sales, giveaways...
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
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
