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In most cases is not the machine, but how the artist uses the machine. Not trying to say that you don't know what you doing but you may be used to a way of tattooing that must adapt to your new Rapier.
Do you check your needles? you may have had hooks, a bad batch can ruin tattoos.
That scaring looks severe, are you sure your client took good care of the tattoo?
The machine would be the last thing I would consider being a problem. Look into all the above.
to me it doesn't look like a scar its not even where he tattooed in some places it looks like a rash from mold to me just a really bad one
The tattoo was barely hit in the area that has the rash... I check my needles every time no exceptions, in fact I just tossed my collection of 100+ barbed needles... I have used the rapier for quite some time now... I don't normally have any healing issues, most of my clients heal in 4-7 days...Quote:
Originally Posted by fkirons
I recently had a customer come back for more work added to his sleeve and he also had rash like spots in certain parts of the tattoo I had done 2 weeks previuosly.the reaction was mainly where I put mostly a lighter wash, this was all done using a pre made wash.
Most artists today use needles made in the far east by young children who are slave labored for $1.60 a day. If the flux from said needles is not deactivated with baking soda I have seen reactions like this. Once I had a group of sailors who got tattooed went to a party got drunk and began horse playing with one being thrown into a nasty canal. The guy went home and passed out with the filth on the fresh tattoo without cleaning it. Next day infection set in he did'nt go to medical for 2-3 days, well staph set in. These idiots were passing around the same tube of A&D ointment and all of them caught it. Even their girlfriends caught it just from touch. Needless to say sometimes it's just a drunken sailor on liberty who does'nt bath right.
I've seen reactions from flux (in a shop I worked in an artist put flux in another's black)...although part of the tattoo pictured looks like it could actually be a flux reaction from a needle, the spotting tells a different story, so I doubt it's the case here.Quote:
Originally Posted by tattooedpirate2
Abolish slavery, make your own needles and group them with sewing thread and super-glue like back in the days :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tattooedpirate2
Made me think of my first tattoo. 14 years old, done with a sewing needle and thread wrapped around it, some Indian ink...was so proud of it! (looked like shit of course) My Mother agreed with that thought and tried scrubbing it out of me with an SOS pad and bleach. She got about half of it...the other half she got out 2 days later when she went back to scrubbing with another SOS pad..til this day every time I see one of those things I have to laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by fkirons
I know we would really like to blame cheap chinese needles for these reactions but I don't think this is the case here.
ring any bells?
Funny thing reading this old thread again. I have a friend who had a nearly identical reaction. All the artists at his shop had a different theory on what it might javelin been from stash to flux to fungus from wash bottle water or pigment. In the end it was diagnosed by a doctor as cirisus (sp?) brought on most likely by stress. He was prescribed a steroid cream and just about went away. It also took so weeks to go away. He was told this was an auto immune response and it may return at any time.
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