Tattoo Basics
Name one thing you must not do when you got a fresh tattoo
Drinking / Direct Sunlight/ Scratching/ Use petroleum jelly on the wound / Immersing the wound in water
Which style of tattooing traditionally features koi fish and geishas?
Japanese
A tattoo is an image that is deposited in what layer of the human skin?
Dermis
The design of the modern tattoo machine comes from
An engraving tool
Tattoo artists have to be careful about sterilising their tools because...
The needle would create a wound every time it punctures the skin / Diseases could spread through unsterile tattoo equipments
Name one common element in Hong Kong Style tattoos
Tigers / Dragons/ Eagles/ Snakes...
Tattoo artists clean their equipments in...
Autoclave
How did tattoos got spread to the West in the 1700s
Captain Cook and sailors sailed to Polynesia and learned about tattoos from the natives
Gaps in tattoo colour are called
Holidays
Who started the first tattoo parlour in HK
James Ho