The tattoo platform: find & book artists, heal right with the Healing Hub, shop, and explore design ideas. For clients and artists.
East London, South Africa
Joined October 2013
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Welcome to Alice Tattoos 🖤 One home for tattoo people:
• Find & book artists
• Healing Hub for aftercare
• Shop
• Design ideas & stencils, with the artist's hand making the final piece
Tattoo knowledge, stories & artist love, daily.
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Our take: not hidden, just somewhere you'll still love seeing in ten years. Hideable is handy for work though. Agree or disagree?
Healed tattoo looking shiny and a little raised after the peeling? That's new skin settling, and it usually calms down within a month. Moisturise lightly and keep it out of the sun till then.
We send one short aftercare and craft note a week: alicetattoos-newsletter.beeh…
A tattoo needle has to land in a layer of skin about a millimetre down. Too shallow and the ink heals away, too deep and the line blurs into a blowout. Good artists hit that window thousands of times a minute, mostly by feel.
Our take: shorter sittings. Fresher skin, steadier hands, easier healing. But plenty of people swear by getting it all done in one day. Agree or disagree?
Myth: picking the flakes off a healing tattoo speeds it up.
Truth: every flake you pull can take ink with it. Let it fall off on its own, moisturise lightly, and leave it alone.
In 1891 a New York tattooer named Samuel O'Reilly patented the first electric tattoo machine. He adapted it from Thomas Edison's electric pen, a gadget built for copying office paperwork.
That buzz in every shop started life as stationery.
Old sailor tradition: one swallow tattoo for every 5,000 nautical miles at sea, so the swallows could guide you home.
What's the story behind your first one?
Myth: your second tattoo hurts less.
Your skin is exactly the same. You just know what's coming this time, and that takes away most of the fear.
