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Originally Posted by cometcowgirl
I'm glad Im not the only one who goes through a bunch of gloves. I figure when in doubt...change the gloves! And pay attention to what your touching!!!
I went to visit an artist at a shop in MA and the piercer/owner informed me that there is a five foot radius of contamination from the machine running (can anyone confirm/deny). Either way I like to keep that in mind with bagging and cleanup! I may not be up there with my skills yet but Im not infecting people!
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that kinda sounds 'fishy', but using the 5ft radius is a good idea for precautionary measures at least in that radius...if your machine is runnin that hard its throwing blood and s&!t into the air, your doing it wrong :P
I think thats meant to be taken as within that area the potential for cross contamination is HIG, so you should be doing s&!t right within that radius...ya know? For once the fishy story might have a good reason for its propagation.
1 set gloves for setup, change to 2nd set for inks and caps and materials, inks are opened with a clean towel, discarded after each color for a fresh one, change gloves, apply stencil, or freehand drawing with surgical marker, 1 use, let dry, wash hands, new set of gloves for machine setup with tube and needle, bag machines, change gloves, start tattooing....usually break after outline, wash hands, smoke, wash hands again, change gloves.....LOL, no wonder im OCD huh?
im no expert, but i pretty much wipe everything down in my entire room after each customer, and make sure my barriers are disposed of, everything they or i or anyone else touched gets the once over with a chemical sterilant. {our shop is 100% disposeable as far as stuff in contact with the client}. Bottles, cords, machines, my chair, armrests, are all bagged or barriered. Floors mopped between clients {personally im ink messy}, and the chair is wiped too, head to foot.
Im a smoker too, so i take a lot of breaks on big pieces, so i use a s&!t-ton of gloves regardless LOL