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How To Start Your Own Tattoo Parlor

Are you thinking about opening your own tattoo parlor? The first things you have to do when opening up your own shop is get a hold of your local health department and see what they require you to do. The health department will give you instructions o

How To Start Your Own Tattoo ParlorAre you thinking about opening your own tattoo parlor? The first things you have to do when opening up your own shop is get a hold of your local health department and see what they require you to do. The health department will give you instructions on how to start your own tattoo parlor and tell you what papers you must fill out in order to operate properly.

Starting Your Own Tattoo Parlor

What You Will Need To Start Your Own Tattoo Parlor:

  1. You will have to provide proof that all the employees have health and safety training in blood born pathogens and ask if they need other training as well.
  2. You will definitely need to have a license and certification for tattooing. You have to apprentice first for a certain amount of time with a licensed tattoo artist.
  3. You will need blue prints of the shop and where everything will be located. Especially the sterilization area.
  4. After all of this you will then get your business of operations license.
  5. Make sure the location of your business is where others will see it and try to shoot for a busy center or high traffic area.
  6. When you have picked a great location now you want to get a big flashy sign that people will see and be interested in.
  7. Decorate the windows with some of your artwork that passerbys can see what you can do.
  8. You will want to get all the equipment you will need to get started tattooing. Things like guns, ink, sterilization things, like an autoclave, needles in packages, cleaning products for the shop and the tattoos, proper chairs and benches for different types of tattoos, different portfolios of work you have done to set on the tables for others to see, have different books for different styles of tattoos such as grey wash, black, color, white ink, uv light, tribal, and so on.
  9. Make sure your shop is people friendly and so are your other workers. Ready to assist anyone that comes in the door and that they can answer any question a customer may have for them in the proper fashion.
  10. Try advertising in the newspapers or a local gazette or Shoppe. Try and offer a special for the grand opening that will catch the customer's eyes. Have your friends tell their friends about your new shop and so forth.
  11. When a customer comes in make sure you have a sheet on after care of the tattoo and give them all the info that you can about it. For each different spot that a customer may want a tattoo explain how bad it may or may not hurt. Just be real honest with them I am sure they will appreciate you a lot more if you do that then lie to them about things.

Remember enjoying what you do is just as important as doing it safe and properly. Having a tattoo parlor can be a great experience if you know what you are doing.


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