DIY Tattoo Machines – Good or Evil?
Many people are interested in tattoo art as well as in the process of tattooing itself. The process it not that difficult at all, it consists of the following steps: you choose a pattern, find a sketch, than mark contours of your future tattoo. After it is done, you paint it and yet it heals. Than correction goes if necessary.
It might seem very easy, but you need skills and experience to make high-quality tattoo. But not every body can afford a professional tattoo gun at the very beginning, so lots of amateur tattoo masters show a great interest in so called DIY tattoo machines that can be made from household supplies and engines from household appliances.
Using a DIT tattoo machine is, well, rather a dangerous trial-and-error approach to your creative work. While tattooing, you make an enormous number of holes in the skin. Each of these tiny wound may invite infections, including dangerous one. That’s why proper sterilization is a must. Heating a needle under a flame or cleaning it with alcohol is not enough. The needles must be sterilized in a machine called an autoclave that really kills germs.
Remember that the disregard of hygiene (in a tattoo saloon as well!) often leads to complications such as inflammation and never-healing wounds.
So if are brave enough to use a DIY tattoo machine, don’t save money at least on coloring agents (pigments). Cheap pigments are made of sot, ink and gel pastes with low light-reflective capability. That’s why the ink under your skin grows dim and a tattoo may as well blow out. The same concerns needles. Give you preference to original ones and don’t make them at home.
Tattoo professional assume that it is impossible to achieve a high-quality beautiful tattoo with a home-made gun. Especially if you are going to tattoo your own body. If you want one, you’d better go to a tattoo saloon. And if you’d like to devote your life to tattoo art, the purchasing of all the equipment will cost you large sums of money, but it will not be spent in vain, at least.
