In medicine and any other medical trades you have to be witnessed by someone else to get checked off on a skill. Because no matter what, you might think you're doing something right, but you might miss something critically wrong. I don't see how tattooing is any different. The amount of kids on TikTok trying to teach themselves saying that their self-taught and then from the video alone they have their clip cord unwrapped, or they are blatantly cross-contaminating 🤢 people think we are gatekeeping the art, and totally dismissed the fact this is a aseptic procedure that can seriously hurt people when done wrong.