A femme presenting person with tattoos holds her arm back laying on a massage table. She has a stencil on the back edge of her forearm of a winding garter snake. It fits and flows between her other tattoos. She has a winding linework tattoo around the wrist (not my work), and a mule fat plant branch tattoo that drapes beside the snake tattoo stencil (my healed work).
A picture of a purple wrapped tattoo station. The purple dental bib rests on a steel tray wrapped in cling film. On the tattoo set up, there is a wooden tounge depressor with a small ink pot on the edge, stuck to the set up with petroleum jelly. There is a large glob of petroleum jelly next to the tounge depressor. There is a small pile of square paper towels. There is a small photocopy print out of the tattoo snake design we drew up. There is 4 tattoo needle set ups. These tools are made to do the manual handpoking technique of tattooing, there are my 'machines' haha. They are needle bars taped to chopsticks and wrapped in paper towel with a pretty dark purple self adhesive bandaid wrap. The dark purple wrap is a very nice shade of purple wit the light purple / lavender colored dental bib underneath. In the background, the forearm of a femme presenting person laying down is draping next to her on a massage table, which is covered in a light blue disposable stretcher sheet.
A femme presenting person in grey khaki cargo pants and a black t shirt with hot pink text, holds her arm diagonally behind her, resting her hands on the back of her hips. She is showing off her new winding cute blackwork garter snake tattoo. The snake has a very cute face, a cute eye, some light scaling details in the face, and beautiful blackwork stripes like ribbons on the snake flowing. The tail end of the snake lands right near the elbow. The snake looks downward on the back of the forearm toward the body of the client. You can see rhododendron leaf foliage in the background surrounding the client.
A femme presenting person in grey khaki cargo pants and a black t shirt with hot pink text, holds her arm diagonally behind her, resting her hands on the back of her hips. She is showing off her new winding cute blackwork garter snake tattoo. The snake has a very cute face, a cute eye, some light scaling details in the face, and beautiful blackwork stripes like ribbons on the snake flowing. The tail end of the snake lands right near the elbow. The snake looks downward on the back of the forearm toward the body of the client. You can see rhododendron leaf foliage in the background surrounding the client.
Snek friend 🐍 Just a lil one this time #handpoked #tattooartist #ladytattooers #snake #snaketattoo #snek #machinefreetattoo #olympia
