DO YOU:
�thoroughly wash your hands with antibacterial solution immediately before and after each tattoo application? �wear latex gloves during the tattooing procedure? �use single service materials and equipment (i.e., each needle and tube set is individually packaged, dated and sealed, and autoclave sterilized), and set up and open them in front of the client?
�use sterile disposable needles?
�have an FDA-regulated autoclave on site?
�sanitize your work space with an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)-approved viricidal disinfectant, preferably one that kills tuberculosis, before and after each client?
�thoroughly rinse tube/needle set from tattoo machine using an ultrasonic tank before discarding?
�properly dispose of contaminated materials?
Measure how the person who you talk with answers your questions -- are they considerate and thorough, or are they annoyed by your inquisitiveness?
You have a right to have your questions answered thoroughly in advance.
When you get there, check out the studio -- make sure it looks and feels
clean.
If you get there and you're uncomfortable, you can leave.
A side note: I have gotten up and walked out of two different tattoo places; follow your instincts! If *anything* about the shop or the tattooist themselves make you uncomfortable, it's probably just not the shop for you.
This page in thanks and gratitude to two of the finest Tattooists I've been fortunate enough to be inked by:
Nancy of Island Ink Tattoo Co., Paia, Maui, Hawaii
and
Suzanne of Creative Tattoo by Suzanne, Ann Arbor, Michigan
� 1997 [email protected]
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