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Are you an aspiring or beginner tattoo artist? If so, there a number of career tools and equipment you will need to acquire to properly run your shop. Obviously this includes the tattooing supplies, such as the tattooing machines, needles, inks, and so on.
But this also means you will have to buy tattoo furniture, such as lounge chairs and tattoo chairs for clients. In this article we will address 3 features of the chair you’ll want to consider having when buying tattoo chairs for your shop.
The first relates to maintenance and cleaning. Make sure you get a tattoo chair that will easily wipe down from spills, such as water and blood, as well as sweat. It’s also good to get a chair made with materials that “breathe”, allowing for a client to rest in the chair for hours at a time without getting sticky and sweat. In other words, look for a chair advertised as water, oil, and sweat resistant.
The next feature that’s very beneficial to have is a chair with a hydraulic lift. Common on barber shop chairs, these lifts allow you to adjust the height of the chair at the push of a bottom. Granted, hydraulic tattoo chairs are a considerable expense to a chair but many find them a necessary feature.
The third and final feature that you should look for is a safety lock. Because tattoo chairs easily fold up for transport, we want to know for sure that leaning our weight on one spot of the chair isn’t going to cause it to accidentally collapse and fold up with a person inside. The results could be devastating and result in a law suit on your hands. The solution? Simply look for a chair that has a good locking mechanism and you will be alright!
Tattoo chairs are not a simple wooden piece of furniture with 4 legs. You need a chair that wipes down easily, that resists sweat, oil, and bodily fluids, and a chair that you can rest a client on with piece of mind that it will hold up properly and not fold up on them accidentally.