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A guide to some things you can look for in a studio
Tattooing
- The tattoo studio should have health standards approval from the relevant local government authority and the tattoo artist should have credentials and references. You can ask to see these if they are not on display.
- The tattoo parlour should use new sterile equipment for each client, and thoroughly cleanse and sterilise equipment (e.g. by using an autoclave).
- Standard precautions should be followed to reduce the risk of infection, such as those used in medical facilities to sterilise reusable equipment.
- The tattoo parlour should look clean, safe and professional. You should use your judgment and avoid back yard tattooists.
Piercing
- Ask if all the equipment is sterile. Equipment should be in new sterile packaging and should be taken out of packaging in front of you and then be disposed of in a sharps container.
- Make sure that fresh disposable latex gloves are used.
- The practitioner must have knowledge about the human anatomy and the location of various nerves that lie beneath the skin that need to be avoided.
- The practitioner must give you information about proper aftercare of your new piercing.
- Ask if the practitioner is available to answer any questions you may have after the piercing.
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