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gan_nair · Tattoo lover Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 4

I have a few questions and I thought I would put them all in one topic as opposed to starting a new one for each question. Like I said in the introduction section, I would like to learn how to tattoo, but only for fun. Anyhow my questions are...

How do you make your own ink out of natural ingredients, like how Zap ink was. The reason being is because I seem to be allergic to alot of inks, all by 2 of my tattoos have gotten infected and I had to go to the ER for some bactrim. And yes I was taking care of them correctly, to a t actually.

Is there a way to build your own sterilizing equipment, if so how do you do it? The reason is because for a hobby, the thing that will make it so expensive is the sterilizing equipment.

Can you make your own tattoo skins? Granted I would probably end up getting a lot of the actual skins, but if I could make my own to add on to it I would because again the price of the hobby would begin to get big.

The only reason I dont go to a tattoo artist and study underneath him is because I dont have the time to do that. My schedule gets extremely hectic, but I have decided that if I want to do something for fun I am going to because if my job takes over my life I am screwed. The other thing I do in my spare time is train for MMA, which is fun as hell.

Any advice from you guys would be awesome and I hope to beable to learn to tattoo one day.