Summary: Ink does not stick to a tattoo needle, but it is drawn up into the tube by the movement of the needle before it runs down the side of the needle when it hits the skin. Find out how ink gets into the skin with helpful tips from an experienced tattoo artist in this free video on tattoo equipment.
Chip Taylor has traveled extensively throughout his 19-year tattooing career, and he spent many of those years working on the east coast at some of the best studios. Such studios...read more
"How to make tattoo ink stick to a needle? A lot of people are under the misconception, that think the tattoo ink is actually injected into the skin and that's not correct. The pigment doesn't actually stick to the needle, that's the really you don't want that to happen. The needle slides in and out of the tube here and the pigment stores when you tip your machine into the ink cap, hit the felt switch, the suction from the needle goin' up and down draws pigment up into this reservoir. Once you got that filled up when you hit the felt switch and touch down on the skin, when that needle touches the skin, that ink releases. So it's what you, it's a gravity fed operation so there's no injecting of ink at all. It just the gravity from the machine being held up, the needle touches the skin, the pigment starts to run out then that's when you start to move your hand along the major line but the pigment does not actually stick to the tattoo needle."
eHow Article: Make Ink Stick to a Tattoo Needle
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