At first, don't be afraid. Remember to stay calm and cool, trust your artist. Also, I recommend that you eat well and healthy before you come in, get enough sleep and take a shower. It's very important not to party the night before because alcohol can increase bleeding for up to 24 hours. Blood also dilutes our pigments, affecting both the appearance of your tattoo as well as the healing process.

Your health and safety is my highest priority. In addition to providing new needles for every client, I also follow strict procedures to avoid cross-contamination. My procedure consists of individually wrapped instruments that are only opened in front of you. Every client gets their own pot of ink and all used pots and unused ink are disposed of after each tattoo.

It depends on a place in which you want to get a tattoo and it varies so much between different people. It especially hurts in the armpits, groin, head, feet, chest, ribs — the skin in these places is more gentle and therefore a tattoo hurts, the rest of it is less painful, but still you definitely will feel it.

Yes, but you should remember that cover-up will always be significantly larger than the original tattoo. Very dark and raised scar tattoos are quite difficult to cover. It may require more than one tattoo session and may result in portions of the original tattoo to still be slightly visible. Sometimes it might take some laser treatments before we could cover it, but it all depends on how dark the piece is and what you want to stick over it.