Rant!: Yes you have to fill out the paperwork!!!

VulgarGirl · May 2014

So, when you get a tattoo in my shop, there's paperwork. I know it sucks. Everyone knows paperwork sucks. You still have to fill it out. Basically it goes like this:

-2 pages of questions, name/age/DOB/contact info, allergies and medical issues, sign here swearing you're of age or also have your guardian sign and we need their info and they have separate I swear I'm the parent/guardian and won't sue info.

-We make a photo copy of your ID/your guardian's ID.

-You watch us open your new needles and you sign saying you saw us do this

-Get your tattoo/piecing done

-We go over care instructions with you and then give you a handout with the care instructions and then you sign another piece of paper saying we explained after care and gave you instructions.

-Everything is stapled together and stuck in a filing cabinet. Once a week someone (me) goes through and scans everything into our computers so we'll have a backup.

All of this is to cover our asses. If we do work on someone under age, we can get our license pulled. If you get an infection because of unsanitary environment or lack of aftercare instructions, we can get our license pulled and you can sue us. So we are covering our asses. All of this is pretty standard at every shop though the part where you see us open the needles and sign, that isn't done at every shop. It's something extra we add in.

Ok, so we just had someone in here wanting a tramp stamp. No, that's how she said it. She came in and said "I want a tramp stamp of cherries" alright we can do that, fill out this paperwork. She sat down and looked at it then came and said to me "What the fuck is this? You're trying to steal my identity. I don't have to give you my date of birth" I told that she did because you had to be 18 to get a tattoo, and she tells me "Fuck you, I'm 18! Don't I look 18?" yeah she did look over the age 18 but she looked at 18 doesn't really fly in the legal system. Then she threw the clip board at me and said "I'm gonna go to a real shop that doesn't want me to fill out paperwork!!" alright well good look with hepatitis and an infection! Not to mention a shitty tattoo.

lyndausvi · May 2014

Ha. I wonder if she reacts that way when she has to pick up cold medicine? Because I'm in my 40's and they still ask for and write down my ID information just to get Mucinex-dM.

Annoying? Yes. Temper tantram. Not so much.

VulgarGirl · May 2014

They swipe my ID and the computer picks all the info. It's also to keep track so they know I'm not making meth. And if I am making meth I'm doing so on a very small scale.

smalfrie19 · May 2014

icks... I wouldn't trust anyone coming at me with a needle if they didn't want me to fill out that stuff! shit

VulgarGirl · May 2014

smalfrie19 said:

icks... I wouldn't trust anyone coming at me with a needle if they didn't want me to fill out that stuff! shit

Right! I wouldn't either!

Someone commented once that our shop felt like a very cool doctor's office. I said thank you. Because we are going for hospital level sterilization here. But with cooler art on the walls.

lyndausvi · May 2014

One wonders if she really was 18? Considering she has a lifetime of pulling out her ID ahead of her and filling out forms she better learn it's not always identity theft. Heck, I was carded at the Rockies game the other day.

beethery · May 2014

Maybe she'll get a piece done by a friend who has tattooed lots of oranges with his setup that he ordered online. That'll look great!

KGold80 · May 2014

Ya know, I'm thinking I wouldn't want to steal the identity of someone who came in specifically asking for a "tramp stamp" and used those exact words. Just sayin'....

Simky906 · May 2014

People who are that irrational just amaze me! Maybe it's because I just don't have the energy to throw a temper tantrum anymore but I will never understand it. And that's coming from someone who works in retail.

mysticl · May 2014

MagicInk said:

So, when you get a tattoo in my shop, there's paperwork. I know it sucks. Everyone knows paperwork sucks. You still have to fill it out. Basically it goes like this:
-2 pages of questions, name/age/DOB/contact info, allergies and medical issues, sign here swearing you're of age or also have your guardian sign and we need their info and they have separate I swear I'm the parent/guardian and won't sue info.
-We make a photo copy of your ID/your guardian's ID.
-You watch us open your new needles and you sign saying you saw us do this
-Get your tattoo/piecing done
-We go over care instructions with you and then give you a handout with the care instructions and then you sign another piece of paper saying we explained after care and gave you instructions.
-Everything is stapled together and stuck in a filing cabinet. Once a week someone (me) goes through and scans everything into our computers so we'll have a backup.

All of this is to cover our asses. If we do work on someone under age, we can get our license pulled. If you get an infection because of unsanitary environment or lack of aftercare instructions, we can get our license pulled and you can sue us. So we are covering our asses. All of this is pretty standard at every shop though the part where you see us open the needles and sign, that isn't done at every shop. It's something extra we add in.

Ok, so we just had someone in here wanting a tramp stamp. No, that's how she said it. She came in and said "I want a tramp stamp of cherries" alright we can do that, fill out this paperwork. She sat down and looked at it then came and said to me "What the fuck is this? You're trying to steal my identity. I don't have to give you my date of birth" I told that she did because you had to be 18 to get a tattoo, and she tells me "Fuck you, I'm 18! Don't I look 18?" yeah she did look over the age 18 but she looked at 18 doesn't really fly in the legal system. Then she threw the clip board at me and said "I'm gonna go to a real shop that doesn't want me to fill out paperwork!!" alright well good look with hepatitis and an infection! Not to mention a shitty tattoo.

I went with a friend when she got her second tattoo. After we left the shop she commented on how it bothered her that they didn't let her see them open the needles. My thought process was "then why did you let them tattoo you?"

VulgarGirl · May 2014

beethery said:

Maybe she'll get a piece done by a friend who has tattooed lots of oranges with his setup that he ordered online. That'll look great!

I have one of those. It looks like shit. I usually use it to talk people out of doing stupid shit like that.

HisGirlFriday13 · May 2014

lyndausvi said:
Ha. I wonder if she reacts that way when she has to pick up cold medicine? Because I'm in my 40's and they still ask for and write down my ID information just to get Mucinex-dM.

Annoying? Yes. Temper tantram. Not so much.

Annoying as shit. Especially when you're already sick and cranky and you just want your damn meds.

VulgarGirl · May 2014

mysticl said:

MagicInk said:

So, when you get a tattoo in my shop, there's paperwork. I know it sucks. Everyone knows paperwork sucks. You still have to fill it out. Basically it goes like this:
-2 pages of questions, name/age/DOB/contact info, allergies and medical issues, sign here swearing you're of age or also have your guardian sign and we need their info and they have separate I swear I'm the parent/guardian and won't sue info.
-We make a photo copy of your ID/your guardian's ID.
-You watch us open your new needles and you sign saying you saw us do this
-Get your tattoo/piecing done
-We go over care instructions with you and then give you a handout with the care instructions and then you sign another piece of paper saying we explained after care and gave you instructions.
-Everything is stapled together and stuck in a filing cabinet. Once a week someone (me) goes through and scans everything into our computers so we'll have a backup.

All of this is to cover our asses. If we do work on someone under age, we can get our license pulled. If you get an infection because of unsanitary environment or lack of aftercare instructions, we can get our license pulled and you can sue us. So we are covering our asses. All of this is pretty standard at every shop though the part where you see us open the needles and sign, that isn't done at every shop. It's something extra we add in.

Ok, so we just had someone in here wanting a tramp stamp. No, that's how she said it. She came in and said "I want a tramp stamp of cherries" alright we can do that, fill out this paperwork. She sat down and looked at it then came and said to me "What the fuck is this? You're trying to steal my identity. I don't have to give you my date of birth" I told that she did because you had to be 18 to get a tattoo, and she tells me "Fuck you, I'm 18! Don't I look 18?" yeah she did look over the age 18 but she looked at 18 doesn't really fly in the legal system. Then she threw the clip board at me and said "I'm gonna go to a real shop that doesn't want me to fill out paperwork!!" alright well good look with hepatitis and an infection! Not to mention a shitty tattoo.

I went with a friend when she got her second tattoo. After we left the shop she commented on how it bothered her that they didn't let her see them open the needles. My thought process was "then why did you let them tattoo you?"

I've had clients say "Wow, I've never had a shop have me watch them open the needles, it always bugged me". Ok, don't let someone tattoo you if what they're doing bugs you. Go elsewhere. My god I live in a huge city, there is a tattoo shop on damn near every corner. You can find a new place!

lyndausvi · May 2014

Ha. I wonder if she reacts that way when she has to pick up cold medicine? Because I'm in my 40's and they still ask for and write down my ID information just to get Mucinex-dM.

Annoying? Yes. Temper tantram. Not so much.
Annoying as shit. Especially when you're already sick and cranky and you just want your damn meds.

** SITFB

Yep. Even more annoying when there is a line on top of it. GRRR

If someone is using a needle on my I'm watching them open up the sterile package. PERIOD !!!

SmileDamnit · May 2014

People are dumb. Very, very dumb.

And one of those dumb people? My sister. She got a tattoo in her BF's friend's kitchen. My mother is still having heart palpitations over that one.

cupcait927 · May 2014

I've gotten 5 tattoos and I've always felt better when I've had to fill out the paperwork. There's a shop in Syracuse, NY that sounds very similar to yours. Very doctor office feeling but did amazing tattoo work and piercings. Sounds like she wasn't 18 and decided to pitch a fit because she couldn't get what she wanted. FI and I have a new artist and he doesn't make us sign paperwork, but that's probably due to the fact that FI's parents have been going to him for 20 years. But even he has us watch him open new needles, sterilize his station, the whole shebang.

manillabar · May 2014

MagicInk said:

So, when you get a tattoo in my shop, there's paperwork. I know it sucks. Everyone knows paperwork sucks. You still have to fill it out. Basically it goes like this:
-2 pages of questions, name/age/DOB/contact info, allergies and medical issues, sign here swearing you're of age or also have your guardian sign and we need their info and they have separate I swear I'm the parent/guardian and won't sue info.
-We make a photo copy of your ID/your guardian's ID.
-You watch us open your new needles and you sign saying you saw us do this
-Get your tattoo/piecing done
-We go over care instructions with you and then give you a handout with the care instructions and then you sign another piece of paper saying we explained after care and gave you instructions.
-Everything is stapled together and stuck in a filing cabinet. Once a week someone (me) goes through and scans everything into our computers so we'll have a backup.

All of this is to cover our asses. If we do work on someone under age, we can get our license pulled. If you get an infection because of unsanitary environment or lack of aftercare instructions, we can get our license pulled and you can sue us. So we are covering our asses. All of this is pretty standard at every shop though the part where you see us open the needles and sign, that isn't done at every shop. It's something extra we add in.

Ok, so we just had someone in here wanting a tramp stamp. No, that's how she said it. She came in and said "I want a tramp stamp of cherries" alright we can do that, fill out this paperwork. She sat down and looked at it then came and said to me "What the fuck is this? You're trying to steal my identity. I don't have to give you my date of birth" I told that she did because you had to be 18 to get a tattoo, and she tells me "Fuck you, I'm 18! Don't I look 18?" yeah she did look over the age 18 but she looked at 18 doesn't really fly in the legal system. Then she threw the clip board at me and said "I'm gonna go to a real shop that doesn't want me to fill out paperwork!!" alright well good look with hepatitis and an infection! Not to mention a shitty tattoo.

I really love the part about watching you open the needles in front of me... it makes me so happy inside. If I ever get over my commitment (to body art) issues I will keep looking until I find a place like yours

JennyColada · May 2014

Simky906 said:
People who are that irrational just amaze me! Maybe it's because I just don't have the energy to throw a temper tantrum anymore but I will never understand it. And that's coming from someone who works in retail.

lovelovelovelove

theartistformerlyknownas · May 2014

Niccirf said:
People are dumb. Very, very dumb.

And one of those dumb people? My sister. She got a tattoo in her BF's friend's kitchen. My mother is still having heart palpitations over that one.

So did my brother! In his dirty ass kitchen. It looks awful.

I would totally let Dr. MagicInk tattoo me!

huskypuppy14 · May 2014

Imagine being that woman's wedding planner, or MOH, or any other vendor. Oh the stories that would be brought here!

If she thinks that paperwork is bad, wait until she buys a house. You give all your personal information to your mortgage broker. Everyday, I have to sign something else. I don't even care anymore

beethery · May 2014

MagicInk said:
I have one of those. It looks like shit. I usually use it to talk people out of doing stupid shit like that.

I went with my cousin to get his first tattoo*. I implored him, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE TELLS YOU IN THE FUTURE, DO NOT GET A TATTOO OUTSIDE OF A TATTOO SHOP** BY A PRO. DO NOT. DOOOOO NOT.

I go back down south to visit my family, cousin is walking in front of me and I notice the travesty on the back of his arm.

That dumbass got an at-home tattoo by one of his dingleberry friends. It looked like something a religious fifth grader would draw on their math notebook. Doodly tribal cross. Half colored in. Out-fucking-standing.

*my cousin is kind of an idiot, to say the least. he had big plans to go into the service, and got an old school eagle holding a banner reading 'death before dishonor'... and he didn't look up any connotations that might apply to that phrase. He got caught doing some stupid drug-related shit, and now has no shot at getting into the service.

** if he wins the lottery and has his own designated tattoo studio with an on-staff artist in his ginormous lotto-winnings mansion, I will not crab on him for getting a piece done outside of a professional shop.

beethery · May 2014

Niccirf said:

People are dumb. Very, very dumb.

And one of those dumb people? My sister. She got a tattoo in her BF's friend's kitchen. My mother is still having heart palpitations over that one.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I CAN NOT NOOOOOO ENOUGH

TATTOO? IN A DIRTY KITCHEN?? Holy lord, might as well get in a DUMPSTER, or a TOILET for your tattooing location. Oh my god nooooooo!

hellohkb · May 2014

Wtf?? No paperwork at a tattoo shop is a REALLY bad sign.

I'm sorry, but to ensure my own safety and to make sure that I do not contract a disease, I will happily sign all the paperwork that I am asked to. I will never understand the attitude of wanted a cheap and quick tattoo. That shit is going on your body for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. This is not a time to be stingy or in a rush.

KytchynWitche · May 2014

I never watch them open the needle. FI does it for me because I would faint if I saw the needle...

But both studios I've used have had paperwork to fill in, and I'm glad for it. I know the local parlour also uses the paperwork as a way of judging if the person is sober enough to get inked or not, because there are lots of festivals here and they're right off where most of the festivities are held so they get a lot of "I'm totally wasted and this fairy flash is the best thing ever omg must have it now!"

Come to think of it, I didn't have to sign anything the second time I went to the studio I use now. Maybe because they were just adding script to the bird they did for me a couple months earlier?

afox007 · May 2014

I'm not going to lie I have totally been the idiot who got drunk and let her bf's tweaker friend tattoo me on my kitchen floor. Best part it was with a homemade tattoo gun he learned to make in prison.

In my defense I was drunk and he had a beautiful new at too on his thigh that he said he had done himself. He left out the part where he had just gotten out of prison and that was how he learned.

There is some good news to the story. He made my bf go buy a new package of guitar string so at least it was new. He used real tattoo ink so it hasn't faded even after 4 years. Mostly I'm lucky it was a simple design I had wanted for years so it came out perfect and wasn't something I regretted (aside from how I got it).

I will admit it was kind of cool watching him take apart a CD player for the motor and make a tattoo gun, but still older sober me knows I got lucky and it could have been a HUGE mistake.

buddysmom80 · May 2014

beethery said:

Niccirf said:

People are dumb. Very, very dumb.

And one of those dumb people? My sister. She got a tattoo in her BF's friend's kitchen. My mother is still having heart palpitations over that one.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I CAN NOT NOOOOOO ENOUGH

TATTOO? IN A DIRTY KITCHEN?? Holy lord, might as well get in a DUMPSTER, or a TOILET for your tattooing location. Oh my god nooooooo!

My former friend decided that she wanted to get a tattoo of her BF's first name and last initial on her arm. She was 17 at the time and she knew her mom wasn't going to sign for it, so her BF found a guy who does tattoos out of his house. She wanted me to go with her since I already had a tattoo. The guy draws out the name, puts the transfer (stencil) on her and asks if it looks good, she checks with me and the N's in the name are backward! So he fixes it and we're like "okay, where is all the equipment?" (we were in the guy's bathroom).

We follow him into his bedroom while his wife is sleeping and she gets the tattoo done on their bed with THE WIFE SLEEPING. I can sleep through anything but damn.

jenna8984 · May 2014

Couldd not agree more!! I have 6 tattoos including a half sleeve so I value sterility and paperwork!!

I have to say though, when I made my online appointment for bridesmaid dress shopping at David's they needed an email for confirmation. Within a few hours I had like 3 spam photographers email me. (good think I'm changing my email when I get married to my new name). The day we showed up for the appointment she handed me a clipboard asking for phone, address, date/ location of wedding, blah blah. I literally wrote "Jenna" at the top and handed it back to her. She was like um, you didn't fill it out. I said um, yea I hate your store and don't need more frigen spam mail. She's like oh, we don't do that. I said "REALLY?! Because I've gotten 12 emails since I made this appointment." She took it and shut up.

Obviously not the same as getting a tattoo and proving your age but whenever it's NOT imperative I skip paperwork or give my childhood landline phone number which has been disconnected for 9 years.

VulgarGirl · May 2014

lolo883 said:

People are dumb. Very, very dumb.

And one of those dumb people? My sister. She got a tattoo in her BF's friend's kitchen. My mother is still having heart palpitations over that one.
So did my brother! In his dirty ass kitchen. It looks awful. I would totally let Dr. MagicInk tattoo me!

My I'm a dumbass tattoo was done in at a dining room table, but it was right by the kitchen. Better lighting I guess. After I did it my parents lectured me non stop. It was my third tattoo. My first two were done by pros in real shops with my parents permission. WTF was I thinking? Well I was 17 so I wasn't thinking. At which point my parents utilized the internet to show me what could happen to me and then took me to get checked out for everything. My mother told my doctor "My daughter is fucking idiot and got a tattoo done by another idiot", not one to beat around the bush my mom.

My brothers both have tattoos, I've done most of their work, but they've gotten so many don't be this fucking stupid lectures from me every tattoo they have is from a pro in a real shop.

VulgarGirl · May 2014

jenna8984 said:

Couldd not agree more!! I have 6 tattoos including a half sleeve so I value sterility and paperwork!!
I have to say though, when I made my online appointment for bridesmaid dress shopping at David's they needed an email for confirmation. Within a few hours I had like 3 spam photographers email me. (good think I'm changing my email when I get married to my new name). The day we showed up for the appointment she handed me a clipboard asking for phone, address, date/ location of wedding, blah blah. I literally wrote "Jenna" at the top and handed it back to her. She was like um, you didn't fill it out. I said um, yea I hate your store and don't need more frigen spam mail. She's like oh, we don't do that. I said "REALLY?! Because I've gotten 12 emails since I made this appointment." She took it and shut up.
Obviously not the same as getting a tattoo and proving your age but whenever it's NOT imperative I skip paperwork or give my childhood landline phone number which has been disconnected for 9 years.

I hate when you give an email then they spam the crap out of you!!! Stop it, just stop it!

I'll always ask why they need the info they're asking for and what they're going to do with it. I could see at a bridal appointment needing my phone number (to follow up), my name (so they know what to call me), and my wedding date maybe (so they'll stop bugging me after that date). That's it.

wandajune6 · May 2014

I was so relieved that they went through all of that with me when I got my tattoo. I was so anxious about the whole thing that I wanted to be certain that the place was safe and everything was being done properly. I'm the person who took notes on the aftercare paperwork they gave me!

I'm now looking into a second tattoo and know that the place I went before doesn't have the expertise. I'll inevitably end up researching the next place as much as I did the first.

She sounds like a nut job.

climbingsingle · May 2014

People really are such morons.

My brother got a tattoo from a friend when he was 17 in our parent's basement. Man, does that thing look like shit 15 years later.

Also, I sadly have a tramp stamp. In my defense, I got it on my upper lower back way back in 1998 before the idea of a tramp stamp even existed. When I got my tattoo there, no one I knew had a tattoo on that area of their body. It's sad that a bunch of sloppy, trampy basic bitches had to ruin it

:-P

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