Nursing Ways of Getting Tattooed by Tattoo Machines

Getting tattooed especially does not like something such as buying a piece .of cloth: you pay for it, you get it all by once. It is kind of like going through a medical treatment. After getting tattooed by tattoo machines especially from a poor tattoo artist, you need to do some necessary nursing procedures to take care of your new tattoos.

Because tattoo practice would actually injure the skin, proper nursing knowledge is truly in need.

Here below are some tips for you to follow:

First you need to understand clearly that once getting tattooed, it could not be removed completely. Keep this in your record in order for your regret later, and don’t buy any advertisement for removing tattoos easily.

The rumor goes that when taking animal blood or cinnabar to use as tattoo ink, you could show this kind of tattoo only after drinking. It is really dangerous to believe this idea; it is not true and the material would bring you fatal disease.

If you get wounded, don’t use alcohol or gentian violet to treat it. Alcohol would stimulate the wound while the gentian violet destroys the color of the tattoo.

Also, the soap and body wash should not be used to clean the new tattoo area, but you could use warm water. This requires you not to frequently bath during the first days after getting tattooed. Let alone swimming or having sauna.

After the tattoo finished, paint the professional ointment onto it, wait one to three hour then clean them all by warm water, after that don’t use any ointment.

You may feel itch and find your tattoo scabbed, take it as normal and do not scratch, because scratching will make the tattoo causing affection or dropping colors.

Don’t eat spicy food before your wound gets healed.

If you are sick or pregnant, drop the idea of getting tattooed or even finding some homemade tattoo machines to get yourself tattooed. It is strongly not advocated.

Reasons and Resolution when Tattoo Machines Don’t Work

The sudden stop of tattoo machines would actually destroy the feeling of tattoo artists during the tattoo process, and then affect the final work. To make sure the tattoo machines performing well during the process is one of the most important things in most tattoo artists’ opinion. However, before making them perform well, you need to understand what reasons make tattoo machines stop working.

Here below are some probable causes or breakdowns of the tattoo machines also with some resolutions for you to care:

·The spring doesn’t connect to the contactor of the shrapnel.

When this happens, you could loosen the screw and spin down the string to 180 degree to 360 degree, then tighten the screw to lock the spring.

·The power switch doesn’t turn on.

If joint up to 220V alternating current, the indicate light will be red with the switch on.

·The press-button of voltage adjustment is zero, while indicator points to zero position, too.

Spin the button by clockwise, and the indicator will be rotated to stop at 10-12V.

·The spring touch the contactor of the shrapnel too tight, making short circuit. Turn on the power switch, indicator show green with no voltage.

Loosen the screw and pull the spring off the contactor, and then make them connected once again. Turn on the power switch, the indicator shows red.

·During the tattoo process, pull the power line by incaution, making it’s plug lose the original position.

Recheck the foot switch to see if the plug of the power line is fixed.

·After finish tattoo process, pull the line off the tattoo machines when cleaning the sets.

Check if the end of the line has broken, if so, find a wireman to make it right.

These are only parts of vast problems you could come across when you handle tattoo machines. Pay attention each time and no need for a long time you will become a specialist of tattoo field.