Body Artist

Overview

Body Artists decorate, adorn or modify the human body by using a range of techniques such as tattooing, piercing, cutting, branding, manipulating, stretching, and scarring the skin.

Day-to-day

• explains tattooing procedure to client
• ensures client is certain about wanting a tattoo
• helps the client chose an image, interprets the client's ideas to form a suitable image, copy or design image for the client, resizes image to fit the body part it is going on and makes a stencil of the image
• shaves the area being tattooed and applies disinfectant to the skin
• puts the stencil on the skin to ensure it fits with the body part
• solders the group of needles onto the needle bar
• draws the outline, colouring and shadowing of the tattoo with inked needles
• applies cream and antiseptic covers to the finished tattoo
• tells clients how to properly care for the tattoo
• ensures all sterilisation equipment is kept in good working order
• ensures the studio and equipment meets with sterilisation, waste management and health and safety standards
• trains people.