Stick &Poke tattoo kit guide to stick and poke tattooing the original

about this kit This kit contains everything for a relatively safe stick and poke tattoo. The people that produced this kit believe that stick and poke tattoos can be made safer with clean and sterile materials and professional grade sterile tattoo ink. This kit is not designed to promote the practice of homemade tattooing. It is designed for use by professional tattoo artists. Really, poking into human skin with a needle is never a good idea. Please be safe and read all warnings and instructions before beginning.

warning Tattooing can be dangerous. Read this before you start...

Warnings Consult your physician before getting a tattoo. This kit is designed for use by licensed tattoo artists. If ink gets into eyes, flush eyes immediately with cold water. If ink gets onto the skin, wash with warm soapy water. This kit is for one time use. Discard kit contents after use. Must be 18 to purchase or use.

gallery of idea(r)s

Tips for your design: The simpler, the better If you can simple-line draw it, it can be done. Get an artsy friend to help you design. Choose something you REALLLLLLY like Be sober Consult a professional tattoo artist More ideas can be viewed on our website at: stickandpoketattookit.com Not sure what you want? Flip forward for some design ideas.

contents

What’s in here anyhow? 1 sterile bandage 1 bottle of ink* 2 medical gloves 1 sterile gauze 2 sterile alcohol wipes 1 sterile plastic petri dish some medical suture thread a needle this guide

*Vegan Professional Tattoo Ink* Sterile ½ oz. Bottle contains: Distilled Water: C.A.S. # Isopropyl Alcohol: C.A.S. # Witch Hazel: C.A.S. # Black Pigment 7, CI #77266 The MSDS is Available on our website at:

instructions

1. Read all warnings before beginning. 2. Create a clean area for the tools. 3. Wash hands vigorously with antibacterial soap, 4. Open and put on gloves.

5. Unwrap all items from plastic and set on sterile surface. 6. Shake ink bottle 7. Squeeze ink into the sterile plastic dish. Fill to the top. 8. Use an alcohol wipe to clean the skin around the area meant for the tattoo.

9. Wrap thread around tip of needle leaving only about 3mm of the needle tip exposed (see picture).

10. Dip tip of needle into the ink. The thread should absorb some ink. 11. Poke skin with pressure enough to puncture top layer of skin, but not enough to make skin bleed. 12. Remove needle (you should feel only a slight tug from skin)

13. Clean with alcohol wipe as needed to clear ink and to see the skin. 14. Repeat #10-13 until a small tattoo is formed. 15. Cover the tattoo with the sterile bandage. 16. Read Care for Tattoo Section

care for your tattoo

* NEVER use the same needles or same ink for two different people. This is one kit for one person. * Discard the needle safely after use (tape up the point). * Consult a physician immediately if your skin hurts, blisters, breaks out, throbs, turns red, bleeds, weeps puss or shows signs of infection or allergy. After tattoo care: * Replace the bandage every day with a new one. Keep the area clean and moisturized for 14 days to allow complete healing. After 2 weeks: * Apply sunscreen before sun exposure to prevent fading.

some history *on* natural tattoos More fun stuff on our website: stickandpoketattookit.com/about-tattoos

The word "tattoo" was brought to Europe by the explorer James Cook, when he returned in 1771 from his first voyage to Tahiti and New Zealand. In his narrative of the voyage, he refers to an operation called "tattaw". Before this it had been described as scarring, painting, or staining.

Who’s tattooed? Tattooing is common in Asian history and has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the 5th to 4th millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had some 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. These tattoos were thought to be a form of healing because of their placement, which resembles acupuncture

Reasons for tattoos Tattoos serve as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and impact of tattoos varies in different places and cultures. People have also been forcibly tattooed. A well-known example is the identification system for inmates in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Fact: In the period of early contact between the Māori and Europeans, the Maori people were hunted for their moko tattoos and decapitated to provide souvenirs of the New World. Moko tattoos were facial designs worn by women and men to indicate their lineage, social position, and status within the tribe. The tattoo art was a sacred marker of identity among the Maori and also referred to as a vehicle for storing one's tapu, or spiritual being, in the afterlife.