Tattoo Supplies - What You Need to Start Your Tattoo Business

 Tattoo supplies are the tools you use to create great tattoos and to maintain and preserve the life of your tattoos. They are your arsenal in the battle to protect your new ink and to promote a lifelong love affair with the ink. As a tattoo artist, you cannot skimp on supplies when it comes to consumer protection so don't skimp on quality when purchasing these products for your shop. The best way to find affordable supplies for your shop is to skip the middle-man and go straight to the wholesalers.

The most basic tattoo supplies you should setup shop with will be very expensive and rich, but as a professional artist, you shouldn't skimp on quality even when it comes to consumer protection. The first port of call for finding cheap tattoo supplies you can then offer to your customers is your own collection of tattoo needles. Tattoo needles are the raw material through which your customer's ink will puncture the skin and into the pigment. It is critical that your tattoo needles are clean and sharpened on a regular basis, otherwise your clients will experience discomfort while getting their tattoos. A tattoo artist needs the finest tattooing equipment around to perform his or her duties.

Needles are only one of the many tattooing equipment needed in the shop. Another essential item is the assortment of stencils and stencil products. These are great for application, removal and changing of colors on tattoos. A tattoo artist's book of stencils and stencil products will make the job of the tattoo artists even easier.

One of the most vital pieces of tattoo supplies is your tattoo machines. Tattoo machines range from a small hand held unit to huge industrial type machines used by medical facilities to produce large volumes of ink. Medical grade tattoo machines are generally the most reliable in terms of producing high quality work with low risk of damage to the customer. The more modern tattoo machines now run on electricity and have color laser technology. Electricity powered tattoo machines tend to be quite a bit faster than older mechanical models.

Another vital piece of your tattoo artist's equipment is the tattoo ink. Your tattoo ink will provide the color for the temporary tattoos that your customers will place on their bodies. The tattoo ink comes in various different forms. It can come as creams, inks, liquid and permanent. Of all of the different types of tattoo ink available many choose to use liquid ink because it is much easier to apply and much less messy to deal with. However, there are many tattoo artists that prefer to use permanent inks due to its permanency and the fact that it looks better.

When it comes to tattooing supplies many tattoo artists prefer to use needles over rinses. Because of this some tattoo artists prefer to only use needles. Sennhesian needles, for example, tend to be very small and made from metal. They are not used by most other tattoo artists, however, because of the dangers involved with them and the expense of using them.

Other tattooing equipment that a tattoo artist may require the purchase of our tattoo ink caps, tattoo inks, and tattoo guns. Tattoo ink caps are important because they help to keep the ink from running. They also help to prevent the color of the ink from staining clothing and fabric. These tattoo supplies can be purchased at almost any tattoo shop or even over the Internet.

Tattoo guns are used to fill in the blanks on tattoos. There are many different styles of guns to choose from and they differ in the amount of ink they hold. The more ink, they hold the thicker the line is going to be. Some tattoo artists prefer to use the smaller, cheaper ink pens, which is why these inks may not be suitable for use on large tattoos. A tattoo artists main job is to provide their customers with the highest quality tattoo supplies possible, and this means using the best equipment they can afford.