If you have the talents to become a tattoo artist, please don’t feel content to work for other studios. You can open your own tattoo store and all you need to do is to get a suitable tattoo kit. To make your store well-equipped and spend the least budget, you may try to wholesale tattoo kits online.

Tattoo machines, needles, ink etc. are all the needed equipments. The quality of those tattoo equipments has effects on your tattoo work. Besides that, you also need some equipment to keep all the equipments clean as tattooing relates to blood; virus infection will be easily caused without taking proper actions. You can list all the things related to tattoo practice. That will be a long list indeed. A professional tattoo kit will make things easier.

 When you make supplements for your tattoo equipment, stand in your customers’ shoes. Normally, things in professional tattoo kits are at least 2 tattoo machine guns for shader and liner, sterilized tattoo needles well-assorted, one tattoo machine power supply with clip cords, foot pedal and fitted wire plug, tattoo grips, needle tips, tattoo ink, ink caps, rubber bands, grommets, tattoo gun adjusting tools, practice tattoo skin, gloves, stencil transfer paper, skin markers and so on. Other things related can be found in a tattoo accessory kit. You can wholesale tattoo kits in large quantities; saving your time think about what to buy and helping you get a cheap price at the same time.

 The best place for tattoo kits are those online wholesale stores where tattoo supplies are classified in categories. All the information about the items is displayed to the public and you can ask the supplier if there’s any question. You can make comparisons between different stores and decide which store offers the most ideal tattoo kit for you. Price varies from kit to kit, so the final decision should be made by the kit itself. The really thing that matters is whether the kit makes you feel comfortable in use.

Someone thinks tattoo kits are inferior in quality and suggest you not to believe any of them. Personally, I think that all depends on your own choice. For those who want to start their own business, the kits will be a better assistant. Start your wholesale with tattoo kits from online tattoo supplies stores.

 When most of people saying that to buy a tattoo kit will be the worst choice for a tattoo artist, I’m still addicted to it. You just don’t know how convenient it is when I got the needed equipment all in a case and take the kit go here and there with me.

 I have been learning to do tattooing for about 1 year and a half. To me, tattoo gives more than only joy, but also a chance to show my creativeness. I come up with new tattoo designs at times, and I’d like to record them. Since I have relatively less experience to enact one design directly to a person’s skin, I will try it on a practice skin, which is contained in a tattoo kit as well. A tattoo kit enables me to carry the things wherever I go, and I am able to do tattooing at any time as long as a suitable environment has been found. I feel really content.

  I’ve bought more than one kit from getbetterlife.com, an online wholesale store which has been specialized in supplying tattoo equipment wholesale and Dropship with really favorable prices for years. I’ve recommended it to some of my friends. After dealing with that site, they put their thumbs up saying that getbetterlife is best for the price.

  In a tattoo kit, usually 2 tattoo gun will be supplied, one for shading and the other one for lining, which saves your time to stop to adjust the machine during the tattooing process. The tattoo guns can be chosen among a series of similar machines that has almost the same functions but different in appearances. getbetterlife offers 10 coil wrap tattoo guns, not the cheap 8 coil wraps for you to choose, some of which has really awesome appearances. I bought that WS-MT005B and WS-MT005A, both working pretty perfectly.

  The number of the grips and tubes varies according to different tattoo kits, so does the tattoo ink, ink holder and ink cups. However, power supply is similar. It’s common to see a tattoo kit with 1 power supply for tattoo gun, 1 foot switch and 1 cord and plug.

  Different suppliers will offer tattoo kits with different needles and tips, so you should make a wise choice when choosing.

  For tattoo beginners, more good things are 1 piece of tattoo skin, 1 CD for teaching and learning and 1 VCD for tattoo pictures will be sent as free gifts which do great help to starters.

  Experience tattoo artists are suggested to get some professional tattoo kits to meet the needs in your tattooing process.

Tattoo machine supplies can be found here and there in your local area and online tattoo stores. For professional tattoo artists, they have no problems in choosing a suitable machine for their working and they can even built a handmade tattoo machine to meet their special needs, but things may be a bit difficult for tattoo starters. To get a proper one, you should know as much about tattoo machines as possible. The first thing to know is the classification.

  According to the functions, they fall into two big categories: liner machines and shader machines. A liner tattoo machine works with tattoo needles inserted into it in a circle pattern to outline a design and define the lining details, while a shader tattoo machine colors the design and make shades with needles grouped in flat rows. A shader is usually a bit heavier than a liner as the wrap coils it contains may be larger to give the extra power for big shading areas. So it’s common to find a liner machine with 8 coils and a shader with 10 wrap coils. Those classical tattoo machines with 10 wrap coils for both liner and shader can be a good way to save your budget, but you should change the contact spring when you need to change the function.

  But for mechanical point of view, tattoo machines can be divided into coil machines and rotary machines.

Most of the above liner and shader machines belong to coil ones, running on wrap coils, which are known for years to be pretty helpful for tattooing. Rotary tattoo machine runs on a wheel, or something like a pulley system that sets a motor for the machine. At the very beginning, this kind of tattoo machines were thought to be less effective than coil ones, but after many years’ of improvement, they now are frequently in use by most professional tattoo artists. Some rotary tattoo machines have three functions all in one machine, suitable for body, eyebrow and lip.

Each type has its own highlights and drawbacks. Before you start to get your tattoo machine supplies, you should at least make a survey about that and talk about the tattoo supply store owner or some tattoo artists available in your reach for more advices.

If you are planning to join in the queue to do tattoo body art or even start your business of making money from giving tattoos, the first thing for you is to buy tattoo guns. Obviously, tattoo guns play an incomparable part in tattoo practice, without which, lining and shading work can’t be done so perfect. As a result, buying tattoo guns seems a crucial step you really need to look before you leap.

  For each tattoo artist, choosing a set of befitting tattoo equipment is half the battle in the beginning. We can’t expect every artist know full-scale of tattoo guns and create a brand new set. However, when you get start on this way, advices from professional tattoo artists are still very helpful. Here I’d like to give you some tips for a good start.

  For buying tattoo guns, besides price and other factors, hand feel is one of the top measurements. There are various sizes among tattoo guns that are designed to meet various demands from tattoo artists. Too big or too small guns will slow down your handcraft, doing no benefits to your tattoo practice. You should never feel tired of putting your hands on various guns to decide which one has the best hand feel.

  Though most tattoo guns have been set up after they get out of the plant with fixed construction, you can still make slight improvement to the device. It’s better for you to choose a flexible one to be adapted, so you can make it right to match your handcraft with good strength and speed for the tattoo guns.

   Some tattoo guns hit too much with powerful strikes during working. That’s the situation that you should pay much attention to. Usually, tattoo artists will buy tattoo guns with soft strength as they will be quite good at work and do less damage and pain to human skin.

   Most tattoo guns are installed with two electromagnetic coils, so you have no need to worry about that. One electromagnetic tattoo guns don’t have the same excellent effect compared to those with two coils.

   For new beginners, automatic tattoo guns on the speed and depth will be much greater for the practice. You can let the gun modified to the best function instead of your freshman’s adaptation, and then you could be more focused on the practice itself.

As an entertaining art for people of all the age ranges, tattoo body art becomes really popular these days. Before getting a tattoo, you should know something about the different types of tattoo ink and have a brief idea of which type is most applicable to your skin, or you may run into allergic reactions.

Here I will show the types of tattoo ink, mainly about their ingredients and people’s pros and cons.

Start from the most frequently used one, Intenze Tattoo Ink, the ingredients haven’t shown to the public. As the price is really favorable and the ink is pretty practical in use, it soon becomes one of the most famous brands.

 Then, Homemade Tattoo Ink. Its ingredients are dry tattoo ink pigment that can be easily found in stores that offers tattoo supply, witch hazel, propylene glycol and medical grade glycerin. This kind of tattoo ink does well in getting the most ideal colors for shading, but you need the guide of a professional tattoo artist, as the whole process requires for proper amounts of ingredients and blending time, only with enough experience can you do that correctly.

  Kuro Sumi Tattoo Ink is considered as safe ink as they are made from animal, plant or synthetic sources.

Then, Henna Tattoo Ink, also known as Mendhi, is usually made of henna paste, lemon juice, sugar, and olive or mustard oil. Not many artists around using this kind of tattoo ink, as they may fade after a certain period and the ink colors are limited.

And then, the White Tattoo Ink. It can contain metal oxides, vegetable dyes, synthetic compounds or ever plastic-based polymers. This kind of ink wins a quite large popularity recently, but the big drawback is a lot of ink is needed to shade on a darker skin color and the color fades easily.

Starbrite Tattoo Ink is named after the designers, so we can’t know the ingredients. More tattoo ink colors are offered, but the price is really expensive.

The last one is UV Tattoo Ink. You may call it Black light tattoo ink or Chameleon. It contains 97.5% PMMA and 2.5% fluorescent dye that has been sterilized in UV light and distilled water. The UV tattoos can be seen with the help of a black light and UV tattoo ink will never cause cancer.

So you may make you own choice, buy tattoo ink of any type that is suitable to you. To color your tattoo designs is to color your body, and your whole life may be colored as well.

Tattoo guns are the only tools to assist tattoo artists to practice their career. Professional tattoo artists know every detail about their close friends and get along with them very well. In the following text of this passage, I will generalize the tattoo guns, in the hope of giving you a systematic overview of this hundred years device, as well as some little tips you may neglect even as a senior tattoo artist.

Since the first version of tattoo gun has been invented by Samuel O’Reilly in 1891, tattoo equipments have the development history of over one hundred years. Modern tattoo guns usually are assembled with two electromagnetic coils to get started into the work. Coils’ number may be different according to different types of tattoo guns, which are the gun for lining, and the gun for shading, in line with two main drawing techniques of tattooing. Some guns may combine these two functions into one whole set, so called all-in-one tattoo gun, but mostly they are separated. Guns for shading are demanded for having stronger force while practicing, with the working power of 10W, on the contrary, guns for lining requires high frequency, with the working power of 8W. Usually the coils number or lining is 8, but for shading 10 to support extra strength.

Many tattoo artists would prefer the soft strength of tattoo guns. This type gun could extend the staying of the needles in the tip to get more intake of ink; also will do good to prevent hurting dedicate human skin.

Even you got a satisfying tattoo gun, you need to learn how to set up and modify your tool. After long run of use, tattoo guns would show degradation, namely gun wearing. To prevent this happen, in spare time you could loosen the rubber ring to keep the needle strength.

Tattoo guns cleaning and sterilization is one key procedure which demands the apparatus of autoclaves and ultrasonic cleaner. Please keep in mind all the time that the gun should not be soaked in the water for cleaning, by which would cause damage to the wrap coils.

Along with the continuing prosper in tattoo body art, people’s concern about the safety and risks of tattoo practice develops as well. As a result, tattoo artists now have to mix the tattoo ink colors in front of the person who is going to get tattooed, in order to make him have faith in the safety of the whole process.

  I saw many tattoo artists making their own tattoo ink, but some turn out to be not practical in use. However, as a tattoo artist, the main concern is to master all the craft and enhance the skills of using tattoo ink, as it has a close relationship with all the work related to outlining and shading to make the tattoo design look more vivid and fantastic.

  I don’t mean that those tattoo artists are not familiar with the basic concepts of tattoo ink colors and have less idea of mixing those colors right. Actually, you should distinguish mixing tattoo ink colors from making your own tattoo inks. You can purchase Intenze Tattoo Ink that has pre-mixed ink colors from tattoo ink supplies stores, which contains a kind of white tattoo ink that can be used to mix and lighten other ink colors. With that, tattoo artists are able to create their unique custom shades. That is, when a customer require to have a color shade that is not available in the colors contained in the tattoo ink supplies, the tattoo artist can use this kind of white tattoo ink to mix with other colors to get that, saving all the time and efforts to make their own ink with that needed colors.

  As a tattoo artist, he need to understand all the slight differences between the tattoo ink colors and have a good idea of apply various colors harmoniously, so the tattoo design he creates will have proper arrangement of the color shades. Color contrast is a kind of good assistant for him to put the color shades to the right areas.

  Without the proper arrangement of the ink colors, no awesome tattoo designs can be created. The color shades are the soul of a tattoo design. Have your tattoo artist got the right tattoo ink colors on your tattoos?

Nowadays, more tattoo ink colors are available in most tattoo ink supply stores, saving the tattoo artists a lot of time to mix the colors.

To apply tattoo designs, tattoo artists need a set of tattoo equipment, which includes a tattoo power supply. These power supplies can be purchased from a lot of different dealers, and there are different types and brands. For the customer’s safety, tattoo artist should decide which brand and type is suitable and how to use it properly.

  A tattoo power supply is designed to drive a tattoo needle to insert tattoo ink into the skin. If the needle doesn’t go deep enough, the tattoo design will fade easily and leave an ugly appearance, while too deep, much more blood will bleed and more pain the person may suffer. As a result, to know how to set a tattoo power supply properly is a key skill for tattoo artists.

  Several tattoo machine power supplies are available in tattoo supplies stores nowadays. The price varies according to different types and functions. If you want to get better control of the tattoo needle’s back and forth movement, then you need a power supply that has a knob to control the voltage. Some more expensive machine power supplies enable you to control all the elements like voltage, speed, follow-through and duty. You can use them in any country without changing the voltage to ensure the safety of other appliances in your home. Some power supplies will come to you with foot pedals and clip cords, but some are not, you may need to buy them separately.

  Some starters think most of the tattoo power supplies have the same working condition and they can apply a good tattoo design with a cheaper power supply. Well, not really. Those less expensive ones have fewer options for you to control the tattoo needle’s movement, except a bad insertion of tattoo ink; the person will endure much more. The entire tattoo design will be damaged as well. What’s more, less expensive power supplies will be worn out in a short period, which will affect the depth of the needles. So it is not advisable to get that kind of tattoo machine power supply if you want to start a business.

  If you plan to be a respected tattoo artist, you should at least get a tattoo power supply with a decent price and make it work pretty well when giving a tattoo. Take your time to do some simple research for the best tattoo power supply. Try to make it a good assistant, but not a stumbling block for creating an awesome tattoo design.

The tattoo needles inserted into tattoo machines can be called the essential core to the whole tattoo practice, which is the most direct part of tattoo machines contacting to the human bodies and leaving colorfully tattooed patterns. To know how to install the tattoo needles into the tattoo machines, the proper way to maintain it and the common problems as well as the solution to them would be very useful to most tattoo artists. Here below are some tips of knowledge for you to get an overall idea of the tattoo machine needles:

Let’s start with how to install tattoo needles.

Step one; adjust your tattoo machine into the best working condition which could be told from the clear strong working sound and high speed with powerful torsion.

Step two; check the tip of tattoo needle to see if it’s ok without damage.

Step three; use special device to remove the top hat 3 in order to take off the tip.

Step four; insert the needle from the top of the tube and hang it onto the position of contact screw, then make it fixed to the top hat grommet.

The installation of tattoo machine needles is quite easy. However, the main and real problems often show up in the middle of the working process, so we should continue with the main stoppage of tattoo machines needles.

Problem one; the inserted tattoo needle doesn’t move along when it’s penetrating the skin.

When this happens, the reason might be the curved hook of the needle or the over length of the needle tip. If so, smooth the needle and adjust the tube to short the tip length. When all these do not help, that means low voltage block the movement of the needle which need you to check your power supply.

Problem two; the tattoo needle displays an off and on working state.

This is mainly caused by the poor contact between the spring and the coils, or the over heat generated by the tattoo machines due to long time working. If according solutions do not help, check your power supply again, because low voltage may cause this problem, too.

As long as you have ever got a little expression of tattoo practice, you definitely know that to create a tattoo design, tattoo needles stand out among all the needed tattoo equipment. Since the lining and shading work of the needles has a close relationship with blood, you can’t be too cautious to handle the whole process.

  One thing you should keep in mind is that a tattoo needle can’t be used more than once, as the potential virus in the blood may be transferred from person to person. Thus, the needles should be sterilized before they are applied to someone’s body.

   To sterilize tattoo needles, you should get yourself an idea autoclave at first, which should meet several requirements to make it work actually. Any help needed, you can go to a local tattoo studio for suggestion. Then set your autoclave to a proper sterilizing level. And then, wash all the tattoo needles, tubes and other related tattoo equipment with anti-bacterial soap and put all the equipment into the autoclave. At last, wear rubber gloves to take them out of the autoclave after a specific cycle time. Your tattoo needles are now ready for use.

  If you are tired of that sterilization, don’t worry, you have other choices.

  Sterilized tattoo needles are offered by almost all the stores that have tattoo needle supply, online or in your local. These needles will come to you with carefully wrapped package, so the only thing you should do before using is to open the package. No sterilizing work is needed any more.

  More advantages of sterilized tattoo needles: well-assorted, mixed sizes meeting the requirements of all work of liner and shader, and pretty practical for tattoo artists whether they are professional or not.

 You can even choose disposable tattoo needles, which are easily available as well, giving you the convenience to drop them away after one-time use.

 With sterilized tattoo needles, the person who is going to get tattooed will be less risky to receive HIV or some other virus of blood disease. Get your tattoo needles sterilized before use; you are surely to enjoy a better and safer tattoo practice.