Body Artist

Body artists decorate or modify the face or body of their customers using techniques such as tattooing and piercing. While some body artists perform a combination of these techniques, it is not uncommon for a body artist to specialise in one area, such as tattooing or piercing.

Body artists may perform the following tasks:

• consult with customers to discuss the services they require
• maintain, clean and sterilise equipment and rooms to meet the requirements of the State Skin Penetration Laws
• design tattoos and make line drawings from photocopies
• make stencils for tattoos
• make piercings using needles, and tattoos using a tattoo machine, ensuring high standards of hygiene and contamination control
• advise customers on after-care procedures
• promote themselves to increase client numbers.

Body artists work indoors and may be required to work evenings and weekends.

Personal Requirements:

• maturity
• good interpersonal skills and an ability to put the customer at ease
• steady hand
• good personal hygiene
• responsible attitude to work (to eliminate risk of transmitting blood-borne viruses)
• comfortable with needles
• self-promotion skills
• artistic ability (for a tattooist).

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