Homemade Tattoo = Recipe for Tattoo Regret and Disaster

Here's what you need to create a tattoo you're guaranteed to regret.  

Ingredients:

1 Sewing Needle

1 #2 Pencil

1 Spool of Thread

1 Bottle India Ink (black liquid acrylic)

1 Razor

1 Thin Tipped Marker

1 Medium Size Cooking Pot

1 Roll of Paper Towels

6 Cups of Water

2 Gloves (optional)

Directions:

Turn stove top burner setting to high and bring water to a boil. Then put the sewing needle into the boiling water for fifteen minutes or until sterile. Remove needle and place on a clean paper towel for thirty seconds, letting it cool off.

With the thumb and index fingers, take the sterilized needle and place alongside the eraser of the number two pencil and hold them together. The tip of the needle should protrude a ½ inch further than the top of the pencil eraser. Needle should not be placed in the center of the eraser. The sharp side of the needle should be facing up.

Wrap thread tightly around the erasing end of the pencil where the needle is touching, several times to hold it together. This is important. The pencil acts as a handle for the tattoo artist.

Now that the needle and the pencil have been tightly fastened together with several layers of thread, carefully wrap thread around the protruding ½ inch tip of the needle two times leaving the last 1/16 th of an inch exposed. Tie thread off and make a knot to ensure it doesn't unravel.

Burn the 1/16 th of an inch exposed portion of the needle with the flame of a lighter, for thirty seconds to a minute, for sanitation. Place on clean paper towel.

Take razor and shave body hair off the surface of the intended tattoo area; then using a thinly tipped marker, draw tattoo design onto skin.

Open the bottle of India Ink and dip the ½ inch tip of the needle into it for ten seconds, or until thread has absorbed the ink. Do not leave needle tip submerged in ink for too long, as you do not want excessive dripping.

Holding the middle of the pencil, using it as a handle, begin pricking the surface of the skin with the top of 1/16 th of an inch of the needle which is exposed and not wrapped with thread. It is necessary to puncture the skin but not unnecessarily deep.

Wipe away excess ink as needed with clean paper towels, cross your fingers and pray as you look down at what you've just done to yourself.

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