Different Gauges Of Tattoo Needles

Sept. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Have you ever saw a tattoo process? I suppose the answer is probably yes since tattoo has become more and more popular so that even you don’t have a tattoo but one of your friends must have been to tattoo parlor. So you maybe noticed that the tattoo artists used different sizes of tattoo needles. There is a large variety of needles in order to create different types of designs of tattoo. And you can see the tattoo artists constantly change their needles through the tattoo process, but do you know the principles? Do you know what is the different meanings of different gauges of needles?

In all, there are mainly three kinds of needles for tattoo and they are divided by the size, the large, medium and small needles. Then we can discuss them in detail in the following pages. At first, what is the large needles? Large needles are used for designing the outlines of a tattoo, especially for some large and wide images. And we can easily observe that there is a number in every needles, which represents the diameter (or the gauges) of the needles. The largest diameter is 35mm and that size is given the number 12, so when you hear number 12 needles is equal to 33mm-diameter needles. Then the medium size of tattoo needles is 25mm to 30mm. And we need know that 25mm represents number 8, 30mm represents number 10. The medium size needles are often used by artists for some details of a large image or create an image that are inside the original image. After introducing the large and medium size of tattoo needles(http://www.cheap-tattoo.com/en/tattoo-needles-and-tips.html), maybe you are able to infer some informations of the small size needles. The smallest needle is 20mm (you can say number 6). And small needles plays an important role in creating some details. They are also widely used in some smaller parts of the body, such as fingers, feet and ears.

Actually tattoo needles are not single needles. Some has seven needles, some may have more. But their major uses have been mentioned in this article. After mastering these knowledge of tattoo needles, you may know tattoo more in detail.

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