PFT 20 X Sheets of Large and Medium Sizes Tattoo Practice Skins, OTW-Tab1

I was excited about this product because it had decent reviews, the price was okay, and it came in different sizes. The problem is that it does not retain the ink well. It also will smear and stain. I have worked with other fake skins and not had this issue. If you are practicing line work it might be fine a but if you are practicing shading you will be very frustrated.

It works okay as fake skin, but it doesn’t wipe off well as the surface is very porous. Just smears and holds ink even with green soap. It gets the job done but there is definitely better out there. It’s not the smoothest. I prefer a more translucent silicone than this as well so you can see how deep you’re going. This is sold color and doesn’t show depth at all.

This stuff works pretty good, if you understand what its really designed for. its designed/intended to teach basic fundamentals like how to hold the gun in the correct position so not to turn skin into hamburger. People who expect to get good with this and go to real skin may be in for a surprise. Remember that real skin has pores that take a bit of technique to overcome. To practice for this, use oranges. the practice skin takes ink pretty well, but be warned, the only way to tell how good your doing is to do real skin. Remember that real skin has to heal and that's how you should judge yourself. Not on initial quality. I am by no means a tattoo expert, but I have friends that are, and this what they are telling me, so take it for what it is. But by all means buy this stuff! It will teach you a lot. One thing I'm having trouble perfecting is getting this stuff to take transfers properly. On real skin you use green soap and a tiny amount of petroleum jelly. But the problem is this doesn't absorb either like skin does, which causes the transfer to bleed all over the place and pretty much destroys the image. Which is definitely frustrating when you take the time to pack a large image onto the skin...

Ok. Heres the thing. Im an amateur. I used a normal pen to draw my outlines and then i used warm water and soap to wipe the ink. People. Its going to smear and get messy ok. Deal with it. Its not real skin. Use very hot water to wipe because eventually it starts getting cold so very hot water lasts longer. Itll still smear. Dont worry about how much messy it gets. When your done just take it to a sink and use very hot water and soap to wipe off. Itll still look a bit messy but not as much. Try not to just wipe. Kind of tap the ink to wipe off. Remember theres two sides. One side is more smooth than the other. Dont use cold water to wipe. Dont be an idiot and burn yourself either with the hot water. Use with caution. And dont try to do what you see on real tattoo videos were the guy wipes off the ink every like 10 seconds. No. Do as much as you can before you start to wipe. The more you get done before you start to wipe, the less messy your wiping will be. Hope this helps.

I am a tattoo apprentice working at home to practice my flash. I used the items as alternative to food products like fruit or pig products so that I may preserve the work. For this purpose it works very well.very easy not to make a mess. I liked the variety of sizes of the sheets in this pack.However, I took away a star because the rubber seems to absorb too much of the ink and my lines looked very light and grey unless I went over them several times. In order to practice streaming my artwork, I have to be able to have crisp, dark lines that don't require going over back and forth, because that technique would damage human skin.

My husband uses these to practice tattooing as he is an apprentice. They are great to practice on, however the ink does not wipe off to see if the lines are straight, it just kind of smears. He did find that if he holds it up in front of a light he can see better.

Nice, large sheets to practice on. Good for beginning work before one really gets going working on a human. Not very easy to wipe the excess ink off of, but you can't have everything. Vaseline helps some. Of course it can never replace the experience of inking a real person, but it's a starting place for the timid - which I was - and gives confidence enough to move on to the real thing.

The skins are good for new artists. They are kind of thin so for using both sides, not happening. When hit by cold water they harden up hit by hot they soften up. They smell weird bad weird 0_o but not horrible. The ink goes on really nice, use antibacterial soap to clean them takes of the ink smear when you wipe of excesses ink, regular soap wont clean them it will just lighting it up but still look dirty. For the price it's a steal! will be buying more.