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Tattooing/piercing safety and parental concent

What you should know before you go

Can I get my minor child tattooed?   The answer is, NO!  It is illegal to tattoo any minor *in the city of Joplin*.  That means no studio in this city can legally tattoo any minor.  I relise that some of the studios may be saying differantly, but they are confused.  You see, the state has recently passed regulations on tattooing, and it says we can do minors with parental concent.  but the city says NOWAY!  So any studio here that has you sign a concent form for your minor, is really just making you an acessorary to their criminal act.
And that's the way that story goes.

Does your artist understand the universal procautions for disease control?
Do they use speedstick?
Answer the phone while wearing dirty gloves?
Smoke while working?
Eat while working?
Can he/she explain how an auto-clave works and why spores tests are necessary?
And you're still going to this person?!
Just kidding, but seriously, you would not believe how many people open tattoo/ body piercing studios without actually knowing anything about the business, let alone the differance between clean and sterile.
Always ask about sterilization, (chemical is OK, autoclave is better, both is best!), how many times the needles are used, and who trained your artist.
People who tell you they worked for some guy in Arizona, without remembering the guys name, or they give you only names of dead artists, or better yet, that they learned to tattoo in jail, (there are no tattoo classes in prisons), are people who should politely wave to as your run for you life from their places of business.