Are You Setting Up Your Own Tattoo Studio?
Working as a tattoo artist can bring with it many rewards as you are creating works of art on a medium that will allow your work to be seen in many cases on a daily basis by hundreds of people. While working for someone else as you master your craft can be a great way to get started, no one wants to work for someone else forever. At some point it will be time for you to start thinking about stepping out on your own and buying the tattoo equipment you need to start your own shop.
There are many steps you are going to have to take to start your own shop and be successful, you could try grabbing your tattoo gun and your inks and renting a building, but unless you already have customers lined up waiting for your work, this is really not likely to be the best way to start your new business and is far more likely to lead to failure.
You will need to invest a fair amount of time scouting around for the perfect location; you are going to need to find somewhere that your current and future customers will be able to find quite easily. If possible you want your studio to be located in an area where there is plenty of foot traffic as this is likely to bring you more work. This is a direct result of people being able to see you at work with your tattoo gun.
Once you have found what you think will be the perfect studio, the next thing on your list will be deciding if you are going to try and go it alone or if you are going to look for other tattoo artists to join your staff. This will have a direct effect on the amount of tattoo guns and kits you will end up having to buy to get started. The reality is that the average studio has several artists in order to be truly successful.
This is because most tattoo artists tend to specialize in one particular style of art, such as portrait work or perhaps old school art. At the same time if you are going to bring in several artists, you are going to need a source of affordable tattoo equipment. While most experience artists will bring their own tattoo guns, you are likely to find that it is easier to attract new talent to your studio if you have tattoo kits ready for them to step in and start working.
As a new studio in the planning stages you are most likely working within a relatively tight budget and this means that any tattoo kits for sale you look at have to be affordable. As you look online you are going to find an endless number of online retailers that sell tattoo equipment. The recent surge in the popularity of tattoos has affected every genre and gender, this in turn has led not only in the number of tattoo artists and studios increasing dramatically, but also the cost of everything from tattoo kits for beginners to bottle of ink.
Many of these online retailers are establishing themselves as specialty stores that deal in nothing but tattoo equipment and sell everything you are likely to ever need at premium prices. Unless you are independently wealthy or have a huge nest egg to open your new studio, you probably cannot afford to even think about shopping in this type of store.
What you should be looking for is an online tattoo equipment retailer that not only carries a large selection of tattoo kits and equipment, but does so at affordable prices. In many cases you are going to find that the best deals are for a tattoo gun starter kit as it will not only have a tattoo gun, but will come with a set of basic ink colors in bottles that will give you enough in for several tattoos. You can save even more money if you buy kits that come with more than on tattoo gun in each kit.
The most important thing is that you find an online retailer that carries all of the supplies you are going to need at prices you can afford. When you need a supplier that not only carries a complete selection of starter kits, but carries a complete line of supplies and everything else you could possibly need at the lowest possible prices, visit us at The LA Shop, you one stop tattoo supply superstore.
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