Happy New Year!

Well, travel, training, and life overall has gotten in my way of blogging but I am going to really work hard (sigh, too many resolutions this year) to be more productive on this end of things. I do have some pretty strong opinions - not just on cosmetic tattooing - but we will stick to that for now.

My latest "man, does that piss me off" topic is about business ethics. I am convinced there is enough business for everyone out there and this goes for the industry suppliers as well so why is it necessary to be so shady? It is bad enough we have snake oil salesmen out there trying to convince everyone their products, by far, are superior to everyone else's, but NOW I have learned there is concerted effort to create a monopoly in Europe for a particular type of device.

Are the regulators in these countries that naive? Are the professionals in these countries that complacent? Body artists can use traditional coil machines (among others) so what is the reasoning behind this ridiculous requirement? I have not been able to find anything in print - it just seems when studios in Norway are being visited by the officials they simply tell them it is a requirement to only use one type of device.

What could be the possible reason? If it is to prevent a needle stick injury to the client, that just does not occur. I have checked with the leading insurance company for the cosmetic tattoo industry, Professional Program Insurance Brokerage (Marine did not respond to my email), and they told me they never had a claim for needle stick injuries.

If anyone has written info on this, I surely would like to know.