Portrait of a Portraitier

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Miss Amanda Arkansassy is the real deal. She was my first real SnP fan (besides friends & mothers who just support everything I do). When others could not imagine the purpose of a Stick & Poke Tattoo Kit - she excitedly told me that she loved it and would take one ASAP. She proceeded to have a Stick and Poke Themed Birthday. This badass southern belle may have given me the confidence I needed to get to where I am today (in my living room now with several paper cuts and ink stains) with over 250 kits sold worldwide in less than a year. I am very grateful to her.  She has most recently photographed my kits, bumping them up to Professional Status.
Let's ask her more questions...

Q1: How do you Identify? What should I call you?

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Miley Cyrus Hand Tattoos

Sup y'all! Just some meaningless celebrity gossip to follow...

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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 go grrl! I hope you are safe!

Here is the dish about all her tattoo meanings and shiiit. You can steal her style if you like. Or make your own!

If the huff post is talking about it, then it must be news, RIGHT?

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Help! This guy has all Miley Cyrus themed tattoos! He hath no shame.

2019-12-18T13:07:07-08:00

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 liver is anger."

"Just as the sap of a tree reverses its directional flow upwards, our emotions also find their way to the surface and may explode forth more easily in the spring than at any other time of year." –Acupuncture.com

I'm angry just thinking about the possibility of being angrier. Here's the deal y'all: Yang energy is all up in everyone's business in the spring when flowers are popping and qi (pronounced: chee) is swirling like mad making everything and everyone want to do the nasty or beat something up.

Do you make your own calendula balms and take a weekly trip [...]

2019-12-18T13:07:07-08:00

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 flattened low calorie snackables and save the plastic for peaches and newborns and other bruising fleshy stuff.

I have a friend who is really nice (really really). You will stay on her sweet side so easily  if you avoid two things: dreads on white people (cultural appropriation) and single-use plastics. Do not give this grrl a plastic fork with her pad thai. Do not give her a straw with her whisky soda. Do not offer her a plastic bag for her Homies. It is for her and the dolphins (and the sea turtles) that I make an effort to minimize the [...]

2019-12-18T13:07:08-08:00

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.

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@sticknpoketattookit

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Holiday Sale!

Lucky/Unlucky days during the holidays are good times to make permanent marks (on oneself).

Order on or before 12/13/13 and get $7.00 off using this link here!

Kits cost $38 plus $4.00 shipping. Here you pay $35 for the whole shabang!

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Help! A Dirty Needle is Following Me Around!

 

A certain awesome community co-op and supportive arts space in Oakland, CA (called Rock Paper Scissors) has considered putting my product on the shelves - however they have a concern that I never considered until now. Of course! What to do with the dirty needle post tattoo?! Diabetics think of this after shooting up, as should we Stick and Pokers. After all, that is one super contaminated needle. There could be some live pathogens waiting to infect a perfectly healthy garbage collector or other waste materials intermediary. Health Care workers are on the front lines of Hepatitis C infection via accidental needle sticks. Eek. Don't be/cause a statistic.

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Until I totally integrate a needle mail back program (difficult), please follow these instructions:

1. When done tattooing, replace needle into original needle package.

2. Wrap that up real [...]

2019-12-18T13:07:08-08:00

A word about the Needles

My kits historically include a 3 Round Liner - meaning a long needle with three little needle heads all bunched up a the point. This is so that you can make a thick enough dot. Someone wanted 2 of these (see this post) so that they can come back the next day with a fresh needle on the same tatt. Your wish is my command, SnPers of the universe (such a bottom lately)! You get TWO needles now. Count em One Two. 2018 UPDATE: You now get many needles of many sizes! See purchase page for specific kit information. Or read more about needle sizes here.

Recently, a frequent SnP-er friend of mine told me that he used my kit with a sewing needle (gasp!) because he wanted a thicker line (a bigger gauge sewing needle will do this - and deposit [...]

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