Gettting Tattooed While Travelling / On Holiday - Part 2
I ran into the girl again that I mentioned in the previous submission.
Even she admitted that she should have avoided the studio where she got her tattoo done (I had given her some advice on what she should look out for before starting the tattoo): they did *not* cover even one bit of the chair where she was sitting, to rest her arms and hear head they gave her cushions that were also not covered in any protective plastic or anything, and had in fact just been used for the guy getting tattooed before her…
While the “tattoo artist” and the customer took a break to go outside and have a cigarette, he did *not* take off his gloves, but opened the door for the lady (with the gloves on!), had a smoke, and then continued after the break using the same gloves! And she was too shy to ask him to change them. Good heavens!!! I mean: please!!! That is outrageous!!!
When you get tattooed, there will be blood, there can possibly be viruses in the fluids coming from your body - and the way this “tattoo artist” deals with such situations simply screams contamination and cross-contamination!
Please: do use the bit of common sense that God gave you… Of course hundreds of people get tattooed under such terrible conditions all over the world, and a lot of them are lucky - but some are not. HIV is not the one to worry about (there is not a *single* reported case of HIV transmission through tattooing in the whole world), but the nasty one is Hepatitis C. Very difficult to cure, not much fun to go through the medication / hospital procedure - almost as bad as being HIV positive.
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