Get some soot*
Put soot in bowl
Add a 1/2 cup of yellow shampoo
Mix in a shampoo cap full of water
Tablespoon of thick coffee
Stir
Add drops of water gradually if too thick
Mix until it leaves a thick film on fingers
*Soot is made many different ways. One way is to get some styrofoam cups and burn them under the metal bunk. The soot forms on the metal and is scraped off.
Needles to a tattoo gun can be made from a guitar strings, ink pen springs, and even the wire taken from inside a bread tie. There is some incredibly detailed artwork done and tattoos generally cost only 1/10 of the street cost. IMW