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Hygiene & Cleanliness
One thing thats very important to us in AWOL Tattoos is cleanliness.
we make sure that the whole studio is cleaned every single day every single thing we use is sterilized
Or is disposable, we open everything in front of customers just to show them that its one use
and anything that is used more than once goes through a rigorous sterilization procedure
First of all the sterilization process starts with the dirty sink
So all the dirty equipment comes, is rinsed in the sink, its scrubbed it is then put into an ultrasonic
which shakes it and the water and we put chemicals in there to make sure everything is clean
so it shakes the dirt and biohazard off the equipment
from there it is dried, then it is bagged, by bagged we mean it is put into these sterilization pouches
obviously all done with gloves and changing gloves all the way through
Once it is sealed in this pouch, it is put into an autoclave
Autoclave is like a pressure cooker that vacuum packs and seals everything so once its
in this and it has come out of here it is sterile and ready for use.
So this is the piercing studio, first of all we have the piercing bed
which obviously is cleaned before and after every customer and we usually use bedroll when there is skin contact.
over here we have everything the piercer needs
from your sterilized instruments to disposable things like gloves, cotton buds
Jewelry, and as you can see, all of our jewelry is individually vacuum packed sealed and sterilized and we only use titanium.
Sterilization and health and cross-contamination, there's no government body regulating this so we
go by Canadian, American, English law and their guidelines on how to keep the place running clean and sterile
and how to make decisions on ages of people who can get tattooed and pierced
You have to be over 18 to get a tattoo and you have to be over 16 to certain piercing and over 18 for other piercings
all of which require I.D
We have to take it upon ourselves to have responsibility to make sure that we are clean and sterile
so that people can feel comfortable when they come in here
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