Because of its special meaning, more and more people would like to get a tattoo by themselves. Here I would like to share with you the detail steps of how to make a real tattoo.

Though our title is persuading to tattoo at home, it’s not tattoo by yourself, if there is possible, it would better to sculpture by your friends. It’s really bloody to tattoo yourself.

First of all, buy some designed tattoo figures from some tattoo shops or you can design by yourself or work with your friends, or the best option is to search some in the internet and then download them.

Secondly, thermo-fax should be on stage, while if your figures are sticky, this step will be unnecessary for you. It can transfer the figure onto a stencil, which is used to paste pattern to your skin.

Thirdly, before tattoo, wash and sterilize your skin is indispensable to avoid any possible dangers of infection. Wet the limited skin with water and paste stencil should be the next action.

Fourthly, full your ink can of tattoo machine gun with black ink first, which is used to outline the main pattern with a simple, circular needle. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt your skin too much, though pains is inevitable.

Fifthly, add the insoluble colors with thicker ink depending on diverse effects you need after wash and sterilize your first tattoo skin again with soap. This time you need to take another different size needles, generally speaking, if you purchase tattoo machine needles from hootoo, they can offer you over 14 kinds of needles. Flat needles are used for shading, and bigger ones for color fill.

Sixthly, if it’s possible apply a sterilized bandage after clean the tattooed area third time. It may bleed lightly for a short time which can last from a few hours to a day. But the beautiful and cool tattoo pays.

At last, place tattoo machine, tubes and needles in an autoclave, it takes heating, steaming and pressure to sterilize them.