Friday, July 13, 2012
Where Does the First Tattoo Machine Come Out?
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
About Tattoo Equipment Pricing
Monday, May 28, 2012
The Strength of Tattoo Machines
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Cleaning the Tattoo Machines
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
How to Plug in a Tattoo Power Supply
Tattoo power supplies are used to provide power for tattoo machines, also is a resources for machine run. To control the speed of the needles which are plugging in the machine during the tattoo process is important. You should set the tattoo power supply to adjust the speed. This article will help you learn about how a power supply affects the tattoo machine.
Instructions
1. Turn on your power supply and on a level, and then locate the jacks of the black clipcord in front of the power supply. One jack is connected to the foot pedal and the other one is connected tattoo machine.
2. Don't place the foot pedal far away from you. Check whether the jacks on power supply and foot pedal plug well. Make sure the cord is not crimped by other thing or it will lead dangerous.
3. You should plug the cylindrical end into the tattoo power supply. The cord is split in two and Y-shaped. Attach the prongs of the clip cord to the upper and lower around the binding posts which on the back of your tattoo machine.
4. You should make sure the cord of the tattoo power supply into a wall outlet. Use your one hand hold the tattoo machine, your foot press the foot pedal. You will see the tattoo machine begin working, if not, you should check out the power supply whether plugged correctly.
Now, you may get something about tattoo power supply, the strengthen of the needles are determine the effect of the tattoo. Check out: Getbetterlife.com get a good tattoo power supply to start your wonderful tattoos.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Tips of Buying Tattoo Machine Online

Buying tattoo machine from the website is one of the most popular options for tattoo artists or tattoo retailers, which could save them much trouble of commuting around the city to seek the expected tools in their mind or single parts of the equipments. Thus, more and more people prefer to get their tattoo machine from online stores.
However, despite all the advantages that the web stores got, such as favorable price and abundant species of goods, yet there are shortages in which the website stores could not match with virtual tattoo machine supplies stores. When purchasing on the website, there is no material objects you can lay hands on to make your final decision. So, inescapably plenty of tracks and scams will be hided behind the smoke. I would like to give you some tips for your buying tattoo machine on the website with the hope of making your purchasing more convenient and authentic.
You would definitely come across lots of websites in the first time. Before you really decide which to settle upon you could join tattoo machine forum to take advices from others. Some advisers who are pro or usual tattoo machine buyers would leave you a clue of which website store they usually go to, and often a comparison would be made between the qualified website stores.
Network trap for purchasing online usually is defraud, which the defrauders make up the website store to cheat for money. So when comes to a new website store, pay attention to its customer message bulletin where there will be much enough information left for you to know about this store. Also you could contact with the customer by their instant messaging ID. The service from the owner is very important too, experienced shopkeeper would not only give you favorable price and abundant brands but also give you knowledge of tattoo machines.
Before deciding to buy any tattoo machine or parts, chat with the storekeeper for the solution of if there being defective goods or missing parts in the sent parcel. Remember always buying little amount of trial products before you really place the big order to avoid the risk.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Winter Fest Celebration & Christmas Promotions
Have you been ready your gifts for your family, friends and also yourself? Don’t be worried, Getbetterlife has offered many Christmas gift choices for you. Hope you have a happiness of Christmas.
For him-----who are enthusiasts or a tattoo artist? To have a new design tattoo is the happiest thing for him. So here, we have prepared a new tattoo kit for you.
For her------mother, wife, girlfriend, sister. Makeup is the first thing for them. Of cause, clothing, dress, and jewelry are needed.
No matter what is your order, we also will send you a free gift. When your order is over $400, we will send you a Mini tattoo kit and the Mini Drying Lamp with your order. More details, please keep an eye on us. Have a good festival.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Your Search for the Best Tattoo Machines Ends Here

A tattoo machine is used to push tattoo ink into a person's skin to create permanent body art. This piece of equipment is a key element to being a successful tattoo artist. Before purchasing a tattoo gun, do some research to ensure you're getting a great machine for the right price?
Tattoo machines are not only popular in the field of permanent cosmetics, Tattoo Artists from around the globe have found the new machine wonderful to use. Plus, the clients are no longer afraid of the noise.That's because of the Quiet Tattoo Machine! Not only do we carry everything you would need to do a great tattoo, but we are also known in the tattoo industry as the tattoo supplier for professional tattoo artists!
Many well known tattoo artists come to us for not just supplies, but for simple tips and secret tricks to make them advance in this skill of art we call tattooing. We will guide you in the right direction and let you know what will work for your style of tattooing all you need to do is ask! Getbetterlife.com is committed to developing new and exciting products for the Tattoo industry that will improve the quality of equipment, and allow the professional artist to do what they do best.
We have the best tattoo machines with the following features available at very reasonable rates and quick deliver anywhere in the world. Here are some tips for selecting the best tattoo gun.
1. New and high quality
2. Beautiful appearance, special surface treatment
3. Come with a 10 wraps manual coil
4. Coil using the latest technology, eight high quality laps solenoid valve
5. The spring made of superior composite material with high elastic for long time anti-fatigue
6. Pure iron armature bar with excellently conductive magnetic performance
7. Stable bouncing, strong magnetic back seat
8. This tattoo machine is a pro-quality beauty product with everything you'll need to tattoo
9. The best for beginner
Shop around at tattoo supply companies. Once you've decided what type of gun you want and the best metals to look for, you'll want to find a tattoo supply company. Look through their catalogs, do some price comparisons, read any feedback available on each specific company and tattoo gun and never be afraid to ask questions. We guarantee that every product we sell is top quality and comes from established brand name manufacturers. Tattooing is a fun and rewarding career or hobby, but it can be quite expensive. Choosing from the many tattoo machines for sale can be tedious for even an expert tattoo artist, let alone a beginner.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
How do Prisoners Make Their Tattoo Machines?
Modern tattoo industry is very prosperous. Tattoo artists have high skilled crafts and tattoo appliances that are duly exquisite no matter cheap or expensive. However, when we recall the retrospection of the tattoo industry beginning, it would definitely lead to prisoners in the old times to mark their gangs or power.
But the question is, when in the prison, how did they get tattooed on their own body? Where did they get the tattoo equipment? Or if they had tattoo machine kits being able to help them finish tattooing when the circumstances was lack of tools and sterilization?
Actually, making a set of cheap tattoo machines with common things in our daily life is much easier than you can imagine. Without the help of a professional tattoo machine to draw a tattoo on your body, you can make a simple one to do the nail job.
Things below are necessary: a fountain pen, a tooth brush, an eraser, a lighter, guitar strings, ink, batteries, tapes and a small motor which would operate the batteries.
Let's start with the fountain pen. Take off the ink tube and get rid of its ball. Cut a proper section of the guitar string making the needle to fit into the tip of the fountain pen.
Remove the bristles of the tooth brush, and then use your lighter to heat in the middle to make the tooth brush in 90 degree form. Hold it until it's stiff.
Join the above two items together with your tapes. And then put it aside to the nest staff.
Take the eraser to attach the middle of the motor shaft, and the put the end of the guitar string into the eraser.
Now the last thing is to find a power source. Then contact the batteries to the switch to make the motor work.
Basically the whole thing is done. If you are not very certain about the working condition of your handmade tattoo machine, you can try it on a banana.
In old times, prisoners usually use this way to make their tattoo machine. Making a tattoo machine yourself is not for money-saving, but for fun and to learn more about the work of it. We now are pretty lucky as we can choose from a large series of cheap tattoo machines that do really good tattooing job.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
How to Buy a Tattoo Power Supply


Tattoo artists always pride of their artwork, these thanks to good tattoo equipments and their ability to perform at peak. Right tattoo machine is important, but the tattoo power supply is more important, as these powers will provide high performance to support tattoo machines.
Instructions
1. Determine the voltage which you required. You can find tattoo power supplies act the volt from 1.5 to 20. The higher voltage, the more power you can get.
2. There are two types of power supply in the market, that is digital power supply and analog power supply. You should decide which type you want. You can accord your experience to choose which readout you prefer. General speaking, digital power supply will be more accurate but the price is higher than analog one.
3. The amount of power which required is depending on the pressure on the tattoo needles. Many regulated machines will auto benefit with the fluctuations, some areas may not.
4. When you buy tattoo power supply, you should buy one which suits your tattoo machines, as some tattoo power supply can only be used for coil operated machine, other only can be used for rotary and other can be used for both.
5. Typically, tattoo artist always have not only one tattoo machine, so you ’ d better to choose one which can suit whatever tattoo machines.
6. You should take the size, weight and portability into the consideration when you want to buy one. You can depend on your workload to choose right one. For example, if you are a travel artist, you can choose light weight and compact one.
7. The price of it. There is a range of the price of the tattoo power supply from $40-$400 or higher. If you think the price of it is OK, you can take above into the consideration.
Getbetterlife.com is an online store which specialized in wholesale tattoo supplies, more tattoo equipments information you can get here. To choose a best tattoo power supply from here and start your feature tattoo career.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Buying a Tattoo Machine
Are you looking for a tattoo machine? Maybe you are an experienced tattoo artist, you might known the tattoo machine is the most equipment in the tattoo products. Maybe you are a new who wants to buy a tattoo machine to start your tattoos and you don't know the tips when you buying a tattoo machine. It doesn't matter. Now, I am going to explain the tips for you.
First, during tattooing, we always regard the tattoo machines in our hands. As they are most used, we should choose the machines which have strong materials, avoiding breaking when drop on the ground. We can choose the materials which made of iron, brass or copper. In addition, good stability is important, so that the machines will not mess the design which we have done.
Second, we should notice the purpose of the tattoo machine. General, there are two purpose, one is "lining", the other one is "shading". You'd better consider to have two machines, one is for "lining", the other one is for "shading", so when you tattooing, you need't change the needles all the time. Certainly, there is a tattoo machine which can used for "lining" either for "shading" on sale in the market. If you are a new starter, you 'd better not buy this one. As this tattoo machine needs to switch the functions between lining and shading. Therefore, this tattoo machine suits the experienced tattoo artists.
Third, if you are a new starter, you are considering buying tattoo machines. You can directly buy a tattoo kit. The tattoo kit general contains 2 tattoo machines at least. As a tattoo kit contains all the things which needed in the tattoos, you just go to a professional tattoo store to buy a professional tattoo kit. You can save much money and time.
Finally, you should not go after the tattoo machines which are expensive price. Experienced tattoo artists might cost few dollars to buy personal tattoo machines. The truth is that each tattoo artist should find their comfortable feeling machines by their own experiences. Last, wish you can choose a right tattoo machine.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
How to Custom Made Your Tattoo Machine Frame
For experienced senior tattoo artists, they are more likely to build up their own tattoo machines with separate parts of high quality: the armature bar, the coils, and what's more important, the tattoo machine frame.
It is not likely that you can hand made your own tattoo machine frame, in your little individual workshop, only by your simple or rough moulds and tools. Tattoo machine frame still needs professional manufacturing skills to make sure the final work performance it shows will be highly satisfying for the tattoo artists' demand of their practice. Thus, to choose one eligible tattoo machine frame which exactly fits the tattoo artists' expectation is truly something that needs artists to do some real research on.
Of course, the first thing that jumps out of your mind is to visit around the whole city, to find out deeply hidden tattoo machine frames in tattoo machine supplies stores. This is the most direct way although a little wasting time and energy. By directly facing to the products of the tattoo machine stores, you can compare and classify the quality of their goods and get a general image, correctly making your final decision.
However, there are always some times you could not find what you want all around your near. In this occasion, you may go on searching in the Internet to find a dreamed one. Buying or custom making your tattoo machine frame on the website has an obvious advantage which is that you don't need to worry about the environmental restriction and location problems, and various types of the machine frames you could select from the website stores will enhance your final buying choices. However, how could you know and exactly tell the shopkeeper on the website the dimension and appearance of your expected tattoo machine frame?
Some website stores supplying tattoo machine frames will offer you a plastic mould with the whole plate, by which you could carving or design your expected appearance for the tattoo machine frame. Besides this, you could also reply to them with your drawings that show the specific data, to double make sure the final product is precise.
In short, custom making the tattoo machine frame from the website has its good aspect as well as its disadvantage. If you are a tattoo machine supplier, opening tattoo stores on the website, you should consider the disadvantages for the customers to boom your own store.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
To Clean a Tattoo Machine Frame
Tattoo machine can be seen as a most frequently used device with a very close relation to the human's handy work, for the tattoo artists must hold the GRP of the machine which is to be stuck by the tattoo machine frame for the artists to practice several hours to finish even a tiny tattoo pattern with a narrow area.
Even though the tattoo machine can be called as an outer packing for the tattoo machine, however, actually, the whole device of the machine is not an enclosed form which could seal all the inside parts exclusively away from the outside world. The role that a tattoo machine frame plays is that it only does the job of bracing other mechanical components all together by its semi-closed frame form, by bracing other parts it mainly means that connecting the tip which contains the needle and the two coils together so the electromagnetic power would make the needle push movements up and downs, by the way of through coils. So, some of the tattoo machine frames have the form of covering one side of the coils to make it look like a small wall, but some other don't. They just leave the coils showing out without any shelter.
So, here comes the problem of cleaning tattoo machines. Of course, a tattoo machine frame also deserves an attention equal to the tattoo machine though many people would miss it by accident. As we all know, tattoo machine's cleaning is not as usual as any common devices. Because the machine's needle and other parts which may also contact with the customers' skin, those specific parts need to be cleaning by professional sterilization apparatus.
However, the tattoo machine frame doesn't need to be sterilized specially as those certain parts, yet still, it needs frequently cleaning for it is the outsider skin of the tattoo machine and the semi-closed form of it would make it very easy to get dusty in its narrow corners. While practice, you may incautiously splash some ink onto the frame, if so, use sterilized cotton to wipe it over. Please remember, don't use soap or other special oils or something, because they can be corroding for the frame, and thus affect its working function.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
About Tattoo Machines: Secrets That You Don’t Know
To many of the common people, tattoo machines are uncanny and intricate devices, which usually can be smoothly manipulated by professional experts of the tattoo artists. However, if you stand closely enough to see into them, you will get the concept that how you misunderstood them previously by prejudice. Tattoo machines are not complex and horrifying devices, on the contrary they are quite easy to learn and doing a lot of help to the tattoo artists for relieving them from repeatedly heavy hand work to exquisite art creation of the colorful patterns under the human skin.
There are several items of the interesting knowledge or tips I would like to share with you about tattoo machines, which I call as their little secrets. In spite of the notorious beginning of the tattoo art history, tattoo machines are actually invented by Thomas Alva Edison, who, yes, is exactly the same famous man carved in the human annals for his numerous inventions to push forward the human world. Thomas Alva Edison made out the first version of electric devices for engrave inks to specific surface, so called as Stencil-Pens, which was although not tended to be the origin of tattoo machines in modern times, yet truly gave the indication to run and indeed be the basic form of today's tattoo devices.
The working theory of tattoo machines is very simple, so simple that many experienced tattoo artists could home-make their own appliances to low the cost for their practice. Because although the electric version of tattoo machines has been invented, the general working rule of the machines is not changed, which lies in the needles constant penetration to insert ink. For tattoo machines, those ones that don't hit too hard while practicing are good machines, because if hitting too had, dedicate human skin will easily get hurt, let alone the customers' tolerance to the pain. Most important, is that hitting too hard machine will restrain the intake of the needle due to the machine's construction.
Like two patterns in tattoo practice, there are two main streams of tattoo machines, machines for lining, and machines for shading. The two machines which respectively have a slight difference between themselves will help the tattoo artists accomplish the expectant tattoo patterns in their mind.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A Short Glance at the History of Tattoo Machines – Part Two

Then there came Thomas Riley, who made out one set of tattoo machines with a single coil operated to work by electromagnets, got his invention just twenty days after O'Reily patented his machine.
When 1899, Alfred Charles Smith, another smart guy in London, doubles the coil in tattoo machines, which lead to the close prototype of today's devices. The first version of this two- coil electromagnet tattoo machine is very heavy, it can be no exaggeration to say that while working they sometimes need to be fixed onto the ceiling of the tattoo studio and then hung down to the tattoo artists for work.
In the next 200 years, tattoo machines basically maintain the original design and the appearance, which, around 1929, had then been slightly improved and developed by Percy Waters; an American lived in Detroit, who promoted the tattoo machines and set them in the tune of the modern way.
Although the set that Waters modified was with two coils in line with the tattoo machine frame, Waters had done a lot of other different changes to tattoo machines, such as on and off switch and spark shield. Due to his various modifications, he was the very first inventor who promoted tattoo machines into large market.
Fifty years later from then, in 1979, Carol Nightingale from Washington D.C. got his tattoo machine patented. He made full adjustments of coils, back spring mount and contact screw, as well as angled armature bar and so on.
With deeper development of technique, tattoo machines got more artistic precision and the control of speed and needle depth. In recent 2000, revolutionary pneumatic tattoo machines were invented by Carson Hill, which using air to work instead of electromagnets, to make the needle penetrating more smoothly.
You could say tattoo machines have gone through many modifications during these hundreds of years. However, no matter how many modifications they've been undergone, they will never suits each tattoo artist's demand and individual application , because tattoo practice is personal, so as the tattoo machines. There could never be an end of continuing designs towards tattoo machines, and in America and Europe there are still many tattoo artists working on new inventions of tattoo machines, though not each time is an improvement, but the search goes on.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Risks of Using the Homemade Tattoo Guns

With the popularity of the tattoo art, the tattoo products floods on the market, and the prices are higher and higher. So in order to save the budgets, some tattoo artists choose to make the tattoo machines at home by themselves. Moreover, electric toothbrushes, electric guitar string and propelling pencils are some just some simple tools for designing the tattoo guns at home, they are easy to get, which make some artists more inclined to do it themselves. But in my opinion, it is not recommended to use the homemade tattoo guns, because it exists some hidden risks. Let us have a deep explore into it.
Most homemade tattoo guns lack good capability of tuning, which will cause some errors, like the mistake of penetration of trial. And there is also another risk, namely going through too many layers may leave some scars below the tattoo, and it will cause a deep pain to the person who wants to get a tattoo, at the same time the final result is the tattoo permanently raised off the skin and unsightly.
If you choose the homemade tattoo guns, it is also very likely that you will use the cheap tattoo ink, which may contain some harmful chemicals to the health and result in some allergic reflect on some people.
During one hour the tattoo guns work, it punctures the skin 180,000 times, and the small hole has an average depth of 1/32 of an inch. What we should concern is that all these small wounds are open to the outside world and will get infectious easily, some diseases such as AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, tetanus, tuberculosis and about any other blood-borne disease. In addition, if all these tattoo machines do not get stterlized properly, the customer will get infectious to many dangerous diseases.
It is impossible to achieve a high quality design with the homemade tattoo guns.So think twice again before you make your choice to use the homemade tattoo guns. For the sake of your career and the long run of your business, you should avoid using the homemade tattoo guns. Go to the Getbetterlife.com, which is a big tattoo guns supplier, you have lots of choices there.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Why buy Tattoo Machines Online
To be a tattoo artist and start tattoo career, one thing is needed for sure: tattoo products.Tattoo career is not like other business, which may require you to necessarily rent offices or employ staffs; the only tool you count on is the tool of tattoo machines.
Beginners of tattoo artists may take a certain time to get skilled of the tattoo machines. Do not look down the knowledge of tattoo machines because after appropriate adapting and modifying they will do much better to your tattoo practice.
To pick up these kinds of knowledge will be a little hard for anyone who is a freshman in the beginning. Believe it or not, the best way to get knowledgeable about tattoo machines (http://www.getbetterlife.com/tattoo-machinegun-for-outline-10-wrap-coils-wsm329_p323.html)and yet the best way to buy tattoo machine is from the website. If you don’t know the basic tips of tattoo machines and their working theory, building method, whatever, you could search it on the website and learn it all by yourself. Tattoo machines are actually a kind of living creatures, by cooperating with the tattoo artists they can help to create brilliant patterns. So, grab some knowledge from the website is very important for you before you buying one set.
The other reason that I highly recommend of buying online is that the convenience of the website solve the district problem. If you just happen to live in an area where no stores or shops selling tattoo machines exist, you may have to commute between either ends of the city. Buying tattoo machiness(http://www.getbetterlife.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&inc_subcat=1&search_in_description=1&categories_id=&keyword=tattoo+machine) online doesn’t have this trouble, and better still; the owner of the online store may be quite more experienced about his selling products. After several visiting or purchasing you will surly get some discounts for the next consumption.
Tattoo machine supplies (http://www.getbetterlife.com/Wholesale-professional-tattoo-supply_c809)online may get the other advantage compared to the traditional entities for some storekeepers may consider the DIY fan among the senior and experienced tattoo artists. You could choose the parts which in your blueprint to assemble a perfect set of tattoo machines, while in many routine stores they don’t afford this kind of services.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Take Care If Your Tattoo Machines Hit Too Hard
The strength of tattoo machines is very crucial to the process of tattooing. Many tattoo artists are paying highly attention to the working strength of tattoo machines when they are choosing their new assistants. The most important reason why working strength is so essential is that it has a close relation to the pain extent and skin damage from the customers and as well as the final artistic value which is presented by the tattoo patterns in the later.
We all know with our basic logical thinking that hard things could often easily break or make damage to the objects, which surely suits to the working theory of tattoo machines, too. Tattoo machines with too hard working strength would cause more severe damage to the human skin, leading the result to the scales of fester of the skin. During the process, customers would feel much stronger pain than those working with soft strength tattoo machines. There is another account that the tattoo artist are highly caring, which is, if using hard strength tattoo machines to practice, the final tattoo pattern will be lighter than normal, due to the structure of hard strength tattoo machines keeping needles dip less ink than normal ones.
So when a experiences tattoo artist got his new tattoo machine, the first thing he would do is to check out its working strength, and make proper adjustment, which, often involve in such below steps: check out if the coils have worn down to the contact of the armature bar. Keep the armature bar away from the coils with a distance of about a papers width. Please note that the armature bar should be given a distance just as the gap between the contact screw and the spring.
Usually, coils inside the tattoo machines are made with different materials from different origins, which could also affect the working strength of the machines, because if a 10 wrap actually contains of 14 layers of wires, it would easily cause your tattoo machine hit hard and fast. The last thing which needs your attention is the capacitor, a factor influencing the speed and working strength of the tattoo machines, too.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Why to Possess Tattoo Machines
Tattoo machines are not like other kinds of mechanic machines which need specialized and complicated knowledge and skills to set up and maintain. Tattoo machines are easy and interesting. Even if you don’t know anything about tattoo practice or have no interest at all in being a tattoo artist, you could pick knowledge of setting up a tattoo machine in a very short time.
In the fact, as a person who has experienced a hard zero towards tattoo practice from the very beginning to now a total pro in tattoo field today, now I’m going to share my apprehension with you. I want to firm your belief that tattoo practice is not only artistically valued and esthetically required but also a brilliant career with a brighten future of great beneficial.
Being a tattoo artist and starting tattoo practice don’t need you to prepare a big sum of investment or spare huge energy to involve in at the beginning, except for your desire to learn the basic drawing skills on human bodies, and keeping on developments of your skills, and finding a good quality tattoo machine with the suitable hand feel.
The most charming thing of being a good tattoo artist is that as time goes on so well as your tattooing experience, you, as a skilled tattoo artist, will be more and more appreciated, which, of course are based on the developing process you keep creating. The more you work, the more experienced you will be. And the more you are experienced, the more benefit you will make. Don’t forget what I mentioned, the previous investment is small, which is merely about a selected tattoo machine. So, it sounds perfectly cool for those who want to work on their own to make life.
Now, you will understand how important the position tattoo machines hold to a tattoo artist during tattoo practice. They take one of the two essential parts of tattooing: tools, and skills. In this reason, many experienced tattoo artists are experienced tattoo machine builder. They are quite familiar with how to modify and tune their own tattoo machines to achieve artfully tattoo patterns. Some smarter guys, who see through the potential selling point of tattoo machines, have already gain their first barrel of gold by making tattoo machines as their commodity.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Steps of Cleaning Tattoo Machines
Cleaning tattoo machines is an important procedure in the tattoo process. Due to the specialty of the tattoo machines, common ways of cleaning such as using warm water or rag to polish the whole set won’t actually do good. Because on the part of tattoo machines, the “dust” for them means invisible bacteria left over the device after treating each customer. Experienced and professional tattoo artists take highly priority of cleaning procedure, namely sterilization, which you may follow through below steps to gain a little more extra knowledge for developing your tattoo career:
Usually, tattoo artists take professional apparatus called ultrasonic cleaner to finish the procedure. When starting cleaning your tattoo machine, you need to first disassemble three parts of the tattoo equipments, grip, tube, and tip. Due to different tattoo machines, unloading order may differ according to the machines. Before the real sterilization these parts need some basic cleaning, like using clean water and antibacterial soaps to wash lightly the surface. After preparedness has been done, full the ultrasonic cleaner tank with proper sum of water to hold the disassembled parts. And then turn on the clean machine for about 5-10 minutes. Take out the grip, tube and tip to dry, naturally, or by special clean rag.
Finishing all the advance-phase preparation, we may enter into
the sterilizing step of the cleaning. At this process, we use apparatus called autoclave sterilizer which could kill living HIV that ultrasonic cleaner could not kill. Take three bags to contain the grip, tube, and tip respectively, and make ready three sterilization trays for the three bags. Please keep note that the bags should be sealed off and have their respective sterilizer tray. Some autoclave machines may have one tray itself and only allow you to sterilize one at each time. Then do not try to take all by once.
Pour the autoclave sterilizer with distilled water about up at the middle, and start the machine for 1-2 hours for the sterilizing. When it’s ready and the indicating number turns to 0, you could put your gloves to take the bags off and dry them.
Basically, this is the whole procedure of cleaning the tattoo machines. Please note that do not wash the whole set in water, which will get the coils rusted by soaking the water.





