never and I mean never get pierced with coloured jewellery. straight up 316lvm surgical steel, titanium, bioplast, ptfe, someone fill in if I’m missing something but coloured jewellery in a fresh piercing is a no no. That jewellery wasn’t black in it’s purest form and unless you like having paint for lack of a better word flaking off with your healing skin I’d suggest starting off with something that is pure.

Currently own a 96 Tbird V8 for the wife and kids and I have a 95 F150 Flareside with a 5L, there is a Kenne Bell supercharger in my basement waiting to go on.

previous car… 1989 Mustang coupe with a GT body kit.
previous bikes… 1991 suzuki katana 600 and then upgraded to a 1992 GSXR 1100.

Currently waiting to get my hands on a 2011 Kawi ZX10R with Trac control and ABS

those wouldn’t happen to be the hair follicles trying to poke through the skin would it?

interesting discussion here, I’m a piercer and have been for over 10 years. I’m also a truck driver that hauls diesel and gas into the oil patch. The town I live in has a population of 4000 people and I can assure you that the ratio of piercing being done here isn’t worth the cost of opening up a shop and paying for everything included in overhead.

So I pierce out of my home and I do it as a courtesy for those who would have to travel 4hrs to the nearest shop.
I refuse to work at the local tattoo studio for a number of reasons but #1 being that the owner is the local cocaine dealer and it infuriates me that drug money is being laundered through a shop in our industry. The other reason is that the local shop doesn’t have a full time tattooist. He only has people travelling to the shop at a week at a time, the last of which my wife got a tattoo done on her hip and although the tattoo was done alright his after-care instruction would have completely messed up his work.

I have a business license, and all american autoclave, an ultrasonic, and UV light systems for keeping my tools/water sterile and BBP training that I update once a year. My suppliers are from Canada only as our laws are better then the states when it comes to the quality of approving jewellery and other related items. Ink and tattoo equipment incl.

Moving on however I’m about to embark in the endeavour of tattooing and I’ve order an online apprenticeship video set which gives over 13hrs of instruction. I’m sure to alot of you who worked hard to get where you are in your shops probably laugh at the idea but people learn things through reading for years.

I’m not a pro and wouldn’t consider myself one for along time and my practising is done on fruit, bananas and oranges to be exact. I have some friends that will allow me to work on them but I have enough common sense to know I’m not ready to put the needle to the flesh.

Am I a scratcher? possibly although I intend to eventually head over to the school where the videos come from and perfect and change any bad techniques I may develop. Maybe I’m abit more into the industry and my location presents a difficult situation but I’ll put on my flame suit and would like to hear the yay’s and nay’s of the pro’s.

I’m not here to learn the basics from you guys, I have pro’s in the industry that are willing to help in that area but I’d still like to be apart of the community and enjoy the good times.