Submitter Comment:
I found this on my feed. My friend is doing tattoos out of the flat she is crashing in. There’s no covering on the machine’s cable, and I’m pretty sure she’s using the bathroom… She says she trained herself to do ink. She has all these photos of horrible tattoo jobs.
Source: http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/578251_10151489490255384_683735383_23845164_680601753_n.jpg
Source: http://charizaard.tumblr.com/post/22773596869
Submitter Comment:
What’s Awful: No gloves, customer that’s being tattoo’d looks uncomfortable and looks like it’s being home done.
SOURCE: Sent to me by a friend via chat and then edited by me to hide names.
SUBMITTER COMMENT: The girl who now has that tattoo is nineteen years old and I wonder why she thought getting a tattoo by someone who isn’t a professional would be a good idea.
WHAT’S AWFUL: Clearly not a tattoo I would want to sport around due to it being so uneven and just poorly done.
It could have been fixed by going to a professional.
Submitter comment:
Done by an awful scratcher that is known around my town as doing “awesome” tattoos out of his house.
What is awful: Just look at the line work. Peace sign isn’t a circle, doves look like blobs, everything is terrible. The source is an album full of horrible tattoos, along with photos of the guy working on a couch.
How it can be fixed: Going to a legitimate tattoo shop would help.
SUBMITTER CONTENT: A few weeks ago, I was at a friends party for her sixteenth birthday. As the night progressed and people were getting more intoxicated, one guy pulled out a tattoo kit (most likely bought from eBay), and decided to tattoo people. Everyone moved into this shitty garage area, full of dirty furniture, cigarette butts, and floors caked in grime. There were also cats wandering around and caged domesticated rats less than 10 metres away. I watched at least half a dozen people get tattooed that night. The only hygienic thing I saw take place was the changing of needles for every new tattoo. Nothing else. The gun was never autoclaved, nor was any attempt at even sanitzation made, let alone total sterilization. Gloves weren’t worn once. There was no clip cord cover used for any tattoo. The “tattoo artists” hands were never washed. Not before the first tattoo, not between any of them, not after the last one. Not only had the “artist” been drinking, but he’d smoked marijuana and taken MDMA before (and during) tattooing. The tattoo machine was set down on the arm rest of a filthy chair, in the case he brought with him and on the concrete floor. All the tattoos were done freehand (which I would have had no problem with had he been an experienced artist in a sterile environment) or over regular biro ink. Also, he used one ink cap for all of the tattoos he scratched onto people.
WHAT’S AWFUL:
- No gloves
- Dirty environment
- No sterilization attempts made on tattoo machine
- One ink cap used
- No clip cord
- Dirty (by nature) animals
- Hands weren’t washed
- Tattooing underage kids
- Untrained “artist”
- Artist under the influence of illegal drugs
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED:
- Proper training
- Proper sterilization protocol
- Hygienic workspace/practices
- Tattooing of age patrons in a legal shop
SOURCE: I was there. Unfortunately.
PS: Two years ago, I would’ve have been one of the kids lining up to get a tattoo. Not knowing about the potential dangers lurking beneath the surface. Thanks to my extensive research into body modification, AND this fantastic blog, I know much better than I used to. I’d like to thank you guys for what you’re doing for the modification community, as unappreciated as it often goes.
PPS: I really hope I submitted this right.
Submitter comment:
Submitted before, this is round two of my friend’s “work”. A heart on the hip, for one of her friends. Anyone who says it’s crooked gets yelled at by someone, and everyone says she’s a great artist. Nothing I say gets to her.
Source: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/528883_407678199262374_100000605924372_1403761_1087160389_n.jpg
This is Alexis Witt. She likes to pretend her name is Alexus-Cori.
Anyway, why it’s awful? She doesn’t have the right sized jewelry in her angel bites, her septum is crooked when you look at her head on, her “ink” was done at home and she pierces herself because she’s a “professional” but just because your friend is a body modification artist, does not mean you are a professional.. Her tattoo is completely without color and in person you can tell the lines are super shakey, plus it starts in the middle of the back her neck and goes almost to the front of her neck, it was very ill placed and un-even.
I couldn’t tell you the source because she deleted the photo from where it originally came from. but here is her Facebook where she posts pictures of her horrible tattoos & talks about tattooing others when she is only 17 and has no experience what so ever.
Why this is awful? I mean, just look at it lol. the lines are uneven and it looks like it was colored on with magical markers or sharpie pens.
How can it be fixed? basically, it’s too late to go back and fix a stupid decision you made, just because at the time she thought it was “cool” but yeah, its permanently on your body now & you can’t do anything about it. have fun regretting it in 2-5 yrs from now.
Honestly, if you want a tattoo that bad why not just wait until you’re old enough to get it done professionally so it actually looks decent? I don’t understand teenagers these days.
