Lower Your Machine speed drastically and crack up voltage until you see you are getting somewhere. Watch how you are laying the color and rethink your technique. You are less prone to over work the skin with a slower machine and this will also allow you to slow down your pace and what what you really do with every hand swing.

This used to happen to me in my early attempts to realistic tattoos. I realized that a slower machine did the trick for me and I was able to actually see what really went on with my tattooing process and how to avoid irritation and overworking the skin.

Fast is only good if you can control every needle poke to the skin.

Be careful with your bugpins and curve mags. Switch to #12 medium to long taper and take it from there.

Skin is not a canvas, It's an organ, and we have to be careful with it.

Hope this helps


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