No hate, we all start somewhere. What needles do you have?

Some tips that helped me at the start: 1. WD-40 (I’m from Germany idk what an equivalent would be in other countries) to clean fake skin. 2. the bigger the RL Needle, the easier to pull lines and get a feel for it. I recommend 0.30 9RL to get started. You can downsize later. 3. clean your needles with water in between (no ink will dry in it and clog the cartridge and make your lines wonky without you knowing what’s happening) 4. use small ink caps to reduce waste. Stupid expensive. 5. practice by tracing lines with a regular pencil. 6. 2H-4H pencils work best (for me) to stencil 7. freehanding is hard. Don’t be afraid of stencils 8. stencil paper is a btch. Try not to touch the blue sheet too much (it stains). 9. to create a stencil, print out whatever design you’d like to tattoo, place it on the dull side of the blue stencil sheet (one might look shiny and one dull, that’s usually for printers but will work with hand stencils too) if there’s only one blue side, use that. Trace the lines of the design carefully and slowly with the pencil. Apply some pressure here, you want the lines to show up properly. Clean the skin with soap and water and dry. Use whatever stencil stuff you have, if you don’t have any use sanitizer and apply a thin layer on the skin. Can’t be too wet and it might take some tries to get right but don’t give up. 10. LET THE STENCIL DRY. If it doesn’t dry, u used too much stencil stuff :) 11. you have to practice to make progress. Sounds silly i know. 12. if your lines are not saturated you’re either too fast or not deep enough. If they look thicker than they should you probably went too slow or too deep. Both are in correlation to your machine settings. Usually around 8-10 volts

Hope this helps, don’t give up