How to Apply a Permanent Tattoo

Video Transcript

"Okay, we're about to start the outline here. If you would scoot right over to me, to the edge, there you go. Some people use arm rests, sometimes I do. For this particular spine, I'm just going to have him rest his arm on my knee. Remember, put a very light coat of your A&D or your Vaseline, whatever you're going to be using to keep the skin lubricated there. Pull some ink up into your cap, and start your outline. You always keep the machine moving, don't stop once you get into that skin. You should know ahead of time when you're doing an outline, where you're going to start and where you plan to stop, so there's no guess work in between. So, you find a place where you're going to start your line, you start it, and you should know where you're going to end it when you start it, bring it to that point and go to your next one. You can do successive lines without going back to your ink cap. If you fill that reservoir on your tip up, you can, make several, several strokes before you have to go back to that well. This area of the arm is a little more tender than lower down on the arm, because it's kind of off the beaten path. You don't get a whole lot of bending action on this part of your arm, to kind of protect it from bumping into things. So, it's a little more tender than your lower arm. It's also a pretty hard spot to tattoo on, you can not get in a hurry. That's when you start making mistakes. If you've got a time crunch or anything like that, you shouldn't even start the tattoo. If you're doing an outline, one line at a time and then when you've done them all and you give it that final wipe, you have a nice clean outline. When you first go through on an area like this, you try to go in and just get a nice, just a fine mark. It doesn't have to be a really a perfect outline at this point, get it marked so you don't lose your stencil. Get it roughed in a little bit and then go back in and dial it in. Get the design of the stencil you want."