Ponto Tattoo

Thanks a lot for your words man! What you say makes sense to me, totally. The kind of tattoo you get depends on the type of tattoo you want. I`d like to add that there are also machine tattoos that look like what you said (soft, thin and empty), take a look at the "single needle" techique used by people like Dr. Woo, Tattooist Doy, (a lot of korean tattooers are mastering this technique if you search about it) and others. Also, there are hand poked tattoo artist that like heavy, thick, solid lines and shadings (like Slowerblack or Grace Neutral). So at the end all comes to the style of tattoo you`d like to have or tattoo, if you are a tattoo artist. In my experience I`ve found that handpoked tattoos get darker and fuller overtime, like a machine tattoo does. That is because of the normal behaviour of the ink in the body, it tends to grow a little bit. And that is something I like a lot, I love to see old tattoos that have gotten really heavy and darker, but still delicate and with the original textures and richness, beacuse it also adds contrast and definition. Its a really nice thing to see! Thanks for encouraging me, I think of it everyday, seriously. If I ever get a machine tattoo, I`d love to have the work of @brody_polinsky , do you know him? I am blown away by his thick lines patterns, that heavy line that resembles textile aboriginal art. Check him out!

Of course! Hand poking techniques have been practised by different cultures around the world. You have tebori, Sak Yant, Ta Moko as the more well-known. But there certainly are others not that popular and, in my case, I tattoo with a hybrid technique that comes from India and Brazil. The technique I use combine the ancient approach of tattooing by hand with the benefits of using sterilized needles, proffesional and safe tattoo ink, which weren´t that common in the past, etc. As far as I know tattooing this way is less harmful to the skin, because you certainly pierce the skin less ammount of times than a machine does. That leads to a quicker healing, a less painfull (not in tebori, sak yant or ta moko) tattoo session. Also, when the tattoo heals it never bleeds, nor repells ink, you know? It heals in dry manner, it looks "healed" the day after and a few days later it starts to develop a really fine scab that its quite hard to come off by accident. Usually, even big tattoos heal completely in less than two weeks. So that is a good point for not bleeding out the ink and losing pigmentation and also to avoid the risk of getting the tattoo infected. Another good part of tattooing this way is that people relax a lot during the tattoo sessions, as there is no noise coming from a machine, and tattooing doesnt hurt more than removing hair with tweezers. Yes, you certainly take more time that it would take to get the same tattoo with a machine, but its not like you need to do 10 tattoos per day. You see, it`s a different approach, a different way of doing it and its from this tattooing techniques that "machine tattooing" was developed from. It represents the origin of tattoos, it about resembling that approach. You say you`ve seen sloppier tattoos, but have you checked the work of the handpoked tattoo artist I mentioned in the other comment? You have to sepparate what is a "home-poke" (more commonly referred as "stick and poke") from "hand-poke" tattoos. Hand poke englobes all the non-machine tattooing methods, but home-poke is more specific to tattoos made at home by people with certainly no knowledge about tattooing, sterilization, and so. You get my point, right? Unfortunately, people think that these "home-poked" tattoos are what can only be done without machine, and that just isn`t accurate/true.

Hi graeme, I have a skin condition and wasnt able to get a tattoo yet. Wether i`ve been a fan of tattoos since I was a child, at the age of 15 I was told to have a skin condition which could turn badly if I got sored, so tattoos could do me bad. Now that that this condition is super stable and know that hand poked tattoos do less harm to the skin and heal quicker, better in certain manner, I am really looking forward to get tattooed. Honestly, I can`t wait. Been waiting to get tattooed for so much time you can`t even imagine. I am lucky this year I will be travelling to get tattooed by some really good hand pokers. Take a look at the work of Trigscovil, ToT the Tattooer, Grace Neutral, SlowerBlack, Welfare Dentist, etc.

Haha no offense taken at all, not even for your renewed vows. you know nothing, good luck

Somebody like that? By saying that you are having the exact same attitude and being as prejudiced as the people who don`t hire tattooed persons and so.

Hi, my name is Nano and I am a handpoked tattoo artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina! If you are interested, you can look at my work in my instagram account @pontotattoo Greetings to everyone! :cool: