Tattoos have gotten a reputation for being a fun way to express yourself, but when the tattooing process is slowed down, as in this slow motion tattoo video, we can see how violent and invasive the process really is. The skin is literally being stabbed thousands of times in order to deliver the ink under the dermis. When slowed down, we can see how difficult the canvas of skin is to work with, as it moves about in response to the motion of the tattoo machine. To put it in perspective, an artist might as well try to paint a curtain by repeatedly poking it with the tip of a paintbrush. Tough job. Kudos to all those tattoo artists out there. Keep up the good work guys and girls!
The red liquid in this screenshot from the YouTube tattoo video is tattoo ink, not blood. [screenshot from the YouTube video]
This tattoo video was created by AlterEgo, a YouTube channel that specialises in using camera techniques such as time lapse, accelerated playback speeds and slow motion to create visual eye-candy videos that show all the curious and wonderful things that our interesting world has to offer.
This pronged tattoo needle contains two needle that allow the tattoo artist to create a double-weight line. [screenshot from the YouTube video]
In the video, we can see how rounded the tips of the tattoo needles actually are. These tiny needles barely enter the skin, delivering their ink load into the epidermis, the top layers of skin. Too deep and the client bleeds, too shallow and the resulting tattoo will look patchy and unfinished. The tattoo artist needs to consistently penetrate the skin at the right level, all while the skin is wobbling, as we see in the video, and the living canvas is breathing and sometimes shifting about on the tattooist’s table or chair.
This picture shows how the human skin depresses under the pressure of the tattoo needles before the needles actually break the skin and deliver their payload of ink. weight line. [screenshot from the YouTube video]
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