How Tattoos Are Created

An overview of the tattooing process

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Howto & Style

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• tattoos
• tattooing
• needles

[inkylisa]

Top marks for an entertaining and educational video. That tattooist could do with some more training tho as he did a pants job of that flower....45 mins to do that? I could of banged it on in 10 mins with minimum bleeding and more solid colour and he could do with tuning his machines. lol...anyway thanks for putting that vid on youtube :o)

[Triwood1973]

You're welcome!

I know nothing about tattooing, but I totally agree with...looked like a 'cowboy' job! :o)

[HeLeansLikeACholo]

Waaaw!

Great!

Amazing!

WONDERFUL!

I LOVE YOU LOL

[PyrotechnicAnarchy]

um, lol yes, I do know how to pronounce solder. LOL why do I have 5 thumbs down? Everyone here must be a dumbass.

[CreepyCarma]

This is one of the worse tattoo vids I've ever seen. I watched it when it originally aired and was like WTF? Everything is aweful! Hands are dirty, the machines look like they are set up to cut metal, the stencil is horrible and then applied even worse, the line work is garbage, no concept of light source, over worked skin cause of severe abrasive machine speed, and it goes on and on! I was so upset that tattooing was portrayed this way by a very popular show that I like!

[smbaker84]

@inkylisa i just got a tat from a buddy. he did an awesome job... i'm just curious how you get "faster" at just basically tracing on someone? i'm sure it's more technical than that, i'm no tattoo artist lol. but he said that he wasn't really great at filling in yet, he's only been doing them for couple years really. i just don't get the technical aspects of it and was curious if you could help me see better.

[caract11]

AAaaaah, to put or not to put a tattoo....

I'm not afraid of ppl who dislike it, not afraid of what my future children/ wife would say or parents.

I'm just so afraid for a BAD TATTOO, if they puncture the ink too deep, your thin fine black line could transform into a black 'river'... and could turn into blue

[dudeisodumb]

that tattoo's color isnt vibrant, still interesting though

[Motivand0LaYal]

Tattoos are awesumm, nice tattoos, and the ones u actually take time to get, its AWESUMM.

[shendritgashi]

what nails fucking disturbing /;@$!#

[hazzaskates]

you don't know what you're talking about

[salemcripple]

it's from the science channel's "how it's made". Or rather the British version of it.

[salemcripple]

Not really. The worst part is after. The irritation, is bad and Some people (like me on some of my tattoos) actually go into a state of (very) mild shock. Causing nausea, the chills, etc. And when it starts to scab over, and itches like a mo-fo. but you can't scratch! To do so could scratch it, causing you to bleed out some of the ink, and ruin the tattoo. this all depends on how big the tattoo is, how much work you had done in one sitting, etc.