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through with it? What things should I be aware of? Pain? Type of ink? Colour tats vs non colour.
If I did get one it would be about palm sized and on the shoulder blade area, nowhere visible.
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Also, I’m paranoid about getting infections from used needles. How can I be 100% certain that I won’t get any infections?
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You can not be absolutely sure about the needles used. Even if everything is absolutely sterile, such as to make the best operating room at a hospital look like it sits in a sewage pool, there are still risks from the ink itself, not to mention the possibility of blood poisoning from the ink, no matter how careful the artist is. Pain, it is always present, even with the best of artists coloring your skin. Should you ever decide to get rid of it at a later time, good luck. It can be done, but it is expensive. I have never known anyone that has gotten a tattoo that did not mention any kind of pain or lasting discomfort from the procedure. By lasting discomfort, a day or 2 of a pain that just keeps on being there until it finally wears off.
Personally, I will never do this because it would interrupt my ability to be a blood donor, and more importantly, to be a platelets donor. There are a lot of kids that need donors of blood, and platelets. There life is not worth getting a tattoo.
You can be sure that your artist is using clean needles quite easily, tell him/her it is highly important as you may be contaminated in some way(hep C should do it and wouldn’t stop the tattoo process for any reason), or ask him/her to make them up prior to your appointment while you are there (not normal but cool, most artsits spend a good few hours making up appropriate setups on none busy times, and then take them away with you and bring them back to be used on you only, I have my own and they get about 15-20 hours before I ask for new ones to be set up, I’ve had septocemia and it nearly killed me) although not a thing if you go into a walk in studio, but who wants to go to a studio where you don’t even need an appointment?:rolleyes:
The most obvious talent of avoiding contraction is reading the artist and his/her ways. Are they constantly touching loads of gear around, music control, telephone etc without taking cloves off, and even worse touching the phone, volume knob on the music with gloves on and then changing them after (remember the person in before was in the same boat and this would defeat the object, it could have been me before I took 9months of seriously nasty medication to rid myself of the nasty Hep C, I didn’t know I had it until I went to hospital for a work accident and don’t expect others to know I had it neither).
Take time, hang out at an artists place for a while, see how clean they look, if cross contamination is possible them give it a miss and move on. Bugs aren’t as bad as if you’re taking someone elses blood onboard.
Peace and good luck, experience prevails in this situation, be carefull.
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