Once you've chosen your design, the tattoo artist will draw or stencil the outline on your skin.

The outline of the design is tattooed first, using thin needle and ink. The tattoo artist will clean the area and then start the shading. The ink and needles may be thicker for the shading process. Once again, the tattoo will be cleaned for the coloring with one or many inks, according to the design you chose. The tattoo area will be cleaned one more time, and then bandaged.

This entire process may take less than an hour, or for a complicated or large design, many hours and more than one session.