To think that having a tattoo done in your home by an unqualified, unregulated and uninsured person is pretty dumb?

[McPheetStink]

Yes or No?

Any idiot can buy the equipment it seems

Is this because you are considering having a tattoo OP?

Or researching a potential business opportunity?!

Nooooo too much of a wuss

I am just stunned this actually goes on. Surely you should go to a reputable establishment

A friend of mine had a tattoo done in her friends uncles bathroom she had to get it redone because it was awful, Yes it is pretty silly, and dangerous, and unhygenic, and probably illegal.

paintyourbox

Well obviously OP. Although ALL tattooists are unqualified as there is no qualification to become one. But I'm just being a pedantic twat now

paintyourbox

Well obviously OP. Although ALL tattooists are unqualified as there is no qualification to become one. But I'm just being a pedantic twat now

It makes me cringe thinking about it tbh!

Reminds me of that tattoo thread with the bad tattoos. Hilarious!

Pardon StuntGirl

Oh so you can just pick up the kit and paint? Ah ok, that answers why it was so shit then

Who's got the bad tattoo?

My favourite bad tattoo is a friend of a friend of a friend kinda thing....she has Biggie Smalls FACE tattooed on her thigh. It's beautiful and horrific all at the same time.

The ex

Truly horrific shit work

Possibly done by a 5 yr old

Good job s/he's an ex then

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a1690312-Mumsnet-Ink-PtI-bad-tattoos-roll-up-I-start-you-with

For your amusement

I always wanted a tattoo but I am too much of a wimp.

Definitely, if they will come to your house, they're not a proper tattooist. Anything that is going to be etched on your skin forever you should properly research, look at previous work, recommendations from people...

If you go for a cut price at home service, you deserve the shitty tattoo you're inevitably going to get imo

He. His first one too. Dumb arse.

Yabu and judegy.

I had an Ozzie friend who did stunning tattoos with a home made contraption she made with pins from the local needle exchange programme.

She originally practised on a piece of pig skin that lived in the freezer and was defrosted tattooed and refrosted!

She was always an incredibly talented artist and she would just draw the design on you in pen, rework til it was perfect and ink it in.

Like with any tattoo artist you need to see examples of previous work and know they haven't been drinking!

The worst tattoo I have was done on a high st shop

Have you met my cousin? Loves a good botch job. Has inflicted his 'skill' on his wife, mother and himself. I am very glad I don't live anywhere near him as if he offered his services I am not sure I could keep a polite response on my tongue >_

Surely there's laws though. No?

I think it's called 'scratching'. Very dangerous and idiotic. And I know it pisses off proper tattoo artists who have set up shop properly.

The tattoo on my ankle was done by my sisters best friends boyfriend...

I have a friend who does reasonable (not brilliant but not awful) with his own kit. He got drunk and tattood himself with random scribblings - if he didn't own his own kit he wouldn't look like the back of a teenagers pencil case.

You need to be lisenced by the council. The lady who did DP's did an apprenticeship before she started properly. She and the shop he got it done in are regulated by the council.

I have a crap tattoo! It's on my hip though so not on view often ever.
It still makes me smile.

I thought there were laws governing tattooing? I'm pretty sure you need a licence. But YANBU. Anyone who lets any random twunt tattoo them is an idiot.

Licensed by the tattoo council, or local council

There was a teenage girl (I'd guess about 16) on my bus last week showing off to her friends a thankfully small tattoo she'd had done on her ankle, apparently by some guy her mum knew who'd come round to their house and tattoo'ed her, her mum and a couple of other family members.

I was a bit but clearly this home tattoing stuff is the latest trend, possibly like Botox parties from a couple of years back!

Yep you need to be licensed by the council, which means NOT your living room/back bedroom/shed/whatever

Not that that means any monkey with the kit and the money to get a shop is automatically good...