How to Tell If You Found a Good Tattoo Artist

The popularity of tattoos continues to be a statement toward everything from culture to fashion. With so many options to choose from, how do you know when you've found a good (great maybe?) tattoo artist that you can stick with?

Read their resume. Most tattoo artists learn in apprentice situations as there are few tattoo schools or schools offering courses in the art form. This apprenticeship should have been under a licensed, professional tattoo artist, with an emphasis on teaching the concepts of sterile procedures and environments. Because tattooing involves contact with blood, tattoo artists need to be highly skilled in the prevention of diseases that can come from blood born pathogens and non-sterile procedures.

Look over their work/portfolio. A good tattoo artist also needs to be a good artist. Let's face it, if all they can do is follow stencils that someone else has made, they will only ever be able to copy the work of others. Tattoo artists that show art degrees on their resumes, or at the very least have a portfolio that showcases their talent as an artist, are much more likely to be able to transform your dream tattoo into a physical reality on your skin.

Walk in for a tattoo consultation with one of our highly skilled, licensed artist at Inflicting Ink Tattoo in Portsmouth RI. We are a sterile tattoo facility licensed to tattoo by the State of Rhode Island. The health and welfare of our clients comes first at Inflicting Ink.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

Body Piercing is Safe in a Sterile Environment

Along with more information and control over sterile tattoo environments, comes a greater concern over sterile body piercing environments. Body piercing is not the same thing as having your ears pierced at the mall, although some practitioners would like you to believe that it's just as safe to get pierced in the same environment.

Body piercing environments must be completely sterile to avoid any and all risks of infection at the site of the piercing. Because certain areas of the body, are already prone to infection after piercing, this practice becomes extremely important for the health and well being of all tattoo and piercing clientele.

With greater regulation of tattoo shops across the globe, and in particular in the United States, where sterile practices have been the norm for some time, authorities are beginning to take notice and enforce regulations more stringently. And while there are many shops operating within and above the Department of Health's Sterile Practice Guidelines, there is still great room for improving the enforcement of the sterile practice regulations in many body piercing establishments.

Of greatest concern for those getting body piercings and the medical community at large, is infection at the piercing site. If left untreated, and depending upon where on the body the piercing is located, infections can turn into very serious medical conditions.

If you are contemplating a body piercing, you owe it to yourself to do a some research on the local tattoo and body piercing shops in your area and make sure that their employees use sterile practices at all times, that they are certified by the Department of Health, that all of their licenses and certifications are up to date both for the studio and the artists, that you are over 18 years of age, and that you have considered the aftercare requirements, the cost, and every other imaginable factor before getting your body pierced. And if you believe your piercing is infected, seek medical attention immediately.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.