Craigslist is a great tool for shopping... lots of bargains to be had!  But is an illegal tattoo a BARGAIN??   It's appalling to read some of the ads for home tattooers on Craigslist... buried in with legitimate shop owners legitimately using the free site for advertising.

It would never occur to me to shop on Craigslist for someone who could clean my teeth cheap at my house or someone who I could visit at their home to have my yearly health exams.  There are just some things that need to be done in the appropriate atmospheres and tattooing is one of them. 

While tattooing in a CONTROLLED atmosphere under the hands of a properly trained tattooer is safe there is major risk in entrusting your health to the hands of those flying under the state regulations.  Tattooing is a body-invasive procedure that should be conducted in a clean, sanitized, controlled atmosphere. By Hawaii State Regulations tattooing can only be done in an inspected studio by a licensed tattooer. 

 

 

 

One 'kit seller' is offering two 'guns' for $160... the same 'guns' listed on another site for $1.99!!!! Pure garbage... but $160? But what does an amateur know? Let's equate this to surgery... did a surgeon first buy a scalpel and gather his friends for practice? No, he was educated FIRST. While it may seem very cool to let your buddy try out things with his new "gun" (they are machines, not "guns") it is not very cool to have a nasty piece of junk tattoo for life... or to contract a host of diseases that do not have a cure.

After a tattoo is done there are a number of procedures required to prevent disease transmission. People actually allow this in their homes where their children live and play? This is not Tupperware, this is serious business, not to be undertaken by the inexperienced in a home environment.  A home environment that may suffer with MRSA/Hep/HIV contamination for all who enter.
 
A summary of some of the recent postings:

• Why go to a tattoo shop and pay alot of cash for a tattoo you can get for less.
  Ask for XXXX 
  (quality, disease prevention to mention two reasons!)
   
• Get your work done by a highly skilled artist that refuses to work in a shop . Txt XXXXXX  
  (maybe a shop refuses to let them in??)
   
• I decided to work out of my house...shoot me a call or text and ill set u up with an appt  Also willing to trade never hurts to ask...
  (again, the decision to work out of the house violates state regs... and why did they 'decide'??  Is it because no shop will have them?)

A cheap tattoo is never a bargain whether it comes to quality or health issues... you get what you pay for in life. Just make sure you don't pay with your life.

 

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