A disturbing and unsettling look at how tattoos are created.
Back to Gav and Dan. While they do not have synthetic skin to tattoo and admit they are not brave enough to tattoo themselves for YouTube content, they do have ballistic gel. The advantage of ballistic gel is that it allows viewers to see what is happening beneath the surface of the “skin.” Novice tattoo artists can purchase special practice skin, which is eerily lifelike, to improve their skills too.
“I wonder if every time you go for a tattoo, how many people you would discourage from getting a tattoo if you showed them this first?” asks Dan when reviewing 5x macro footage of just the tattoo gun’s needles moving. For viewers unfamiliar with tattoo machines, depending on what kind of tattoo or part of a design an artist is doing, the gun uses different needles. For larger areas, like when doing color fill or extensive shading work, a “mag” is used. This contains multiple needles arranged in a broad pattern. Needle tips for line work include multiple needles, which are very close together to enable precise ink application.
Thanks to the Phantom high-speed camera, Gav and Dan determine that each “cycle,” which is the tattoo needle tips fully extending and retracting, takes about five or six milliseconds. “That is rapid,” says Gav. “It looks like the xenomorph’s second mouth. Ah, that’s horrendous,” Gav adds, referencing the alien from themovie franchise. “I guess I wasn’t expecting the surface tension of the ink to completely cover the needle. This must’ve taken ages before electricity!”
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