HOW TO USE TATTOO TRANSFER PAPER BY HAND WITHOUT A THERMAL COPIER #shorts #shortsfeed
1 – GET YOUR TATTOO TRANSFER PAPER. Buy some tattoo stencil transfer paper. Spirit is a good brand which works well and comes in various different colours which work with different skin types. The ones shown below are thermographic or printable tattoo papers. They can be used for hand stencilling as well as by using a thermal copier. If you are going to be only stencilling by hand its best to buy hectographic hand stencilling paper. If you buy hectographic transfer paper this just comes in single blue sheets. You don’t need to faff about separating the layers. Just go straight to the tracing step. 2 – USE A SOLID SMOOTH SURFACE TO LEAN ON. You need something solid to lean on to get the best detail. A metal clipboard works great. 3 – SEPARATE OUT THE LAYERS OF TATTOO TRANSFER PAPER. 4-layer thermal printing paper has 4 different layers The yellow backing sheet – for protection The brown protective sheet – stops the carbon going onto the white transfer sheet The white transfer sheet The dark blue carbon copy sheet In order to trace by hand you just need the blue carbon layer. We will go through what the other layers do when talking about using a thermal copier below. You can ignore them for now. 4- TRACE OVER YOUR TATTOO DESIGN To transfer the design, you simply place your piece of paper with your photocopied design onto the carbon sheet and trace carefully over the lines. Use a fine ballpoint pen for greater accuracy. Make sure that you have the piece of carbon paper the right way up and are stencilling on the right side which is usually slightly matt and not glossy. This method means that you don’t need to worry about the stencil moving about as you trace creating inaccuracies. You can simply flip over the stencil to see how far you have progressed with your tracing. If you hold it up to the light this helps to see how much you have completed. Tracing onto Xerox paper makes a sturdy stencil that you can reuse quite a few times if your initial transfer attempts fail. #howtotattooforbeginners #HowToTattoo #TattooTips #learntattooing #
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