Floor Tom Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Anyone going to the tattoo convention on at the end of the month?Website here http://www.granitecitytattoo.co.uk/index2.htmlLooks like a laugh, I may pop along for a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 the music on that page is dreadful.on a side note.. does anyone know of any websites with a variety of good tattoo designs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty-words Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 I shall be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Tatu convention?Loads of russion lassies with school uniforms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 I. Must. Resist.Last thing I need is more ink! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emergency72 Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Anyone know if theres the chance of scoring some free ink at these conventions from budding artists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Not a chance! The tattoists are all established & otherwise licenced professionals. Any work by new artists would only be non-permanent.If you are talking about the gear/supplies aspect, yes there is a trade room but again, you are going to need your licence to get in. General public/amateur artists are not welcome in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Savant Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 You don't need a licence to be a tattooist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseyBoi Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 You don't need a licence to be a tattooist...liesof course you do mate.your just being silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Savant Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 I read it somewhere before...was possibly an american site...And by the way, that should have been "you're", as in 'you are'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floor Tom Posted April 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 You don't need a licence to be a tattooist...Sort of. There are no standards that you have to reach to become a tattooist but you do need to pass health and safety laws and have an appropriate dangerous waste disposal thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyS Posted April 29, 2006 Report Share Posted April 29, 2006 On of my dad's next photography exibitions is based around this convention. I was looking at some of the pictures he took last night - some people have really weird/strange tattoo's (my favourite has to be the bottle of HP brown sauce). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emergency72 Posted April 29, 2006 Report Share Posted April 29, 2006 Not a chance! The tattoists are all established & otherwise licenced professionals. Any work by new artists would only be non-permanent.If you are talking about the gear/supplies aspect' date=' yes there is a trade room but again, you are going to need your licence to get in. General public/amateur artists are not welcome in there.[/quote']I must have imagined all those freebie tattoos new artists have given me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 I must have imagined all those freebie tattoos new artists have given me...You didn't get them at this convention did you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 You don't need a licence to be a tattooist...I read it somewhere before...was possibly an american site.Tattoo operations need to be licenced by the local council in the UK. Mainly for compliance with health & saftey & clean-working guidelines. Usually by environmental health but individual practice varies a bit. For conventions elsewhere, the home licence is usually deemed acceptable but apparently this year, Aberdeen insisted that each tattooist's workspace be registered as an individual tattoo studio in its own right for the duration of the convention at 80 a pop. The artists were pretty pissed-off about that & several didn't come because of it. Has given the organiser some worries about being able to stage it again but hopefully they will overcome.American practice varies widely - some places have next to no restrictions whilst other places are exceptionally & stupidly strict. Somewhere insists that they must hold a full medical degree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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