Along with the growing popularity of tattooing, the business of tattoo supply stores is prospering in recent days. As one of the main tools used in the tattoo process, tattoo machine supplies become the hottest products. Make a survey of those stores. You will find various types of machines are available of different prices. What's the difference between them?

Let's have a look at the common types of those tattoo machine supplies. Start from the most commonly seen ones, liner machines and shader machines, both named after their main function.

A liner tattoo machine, which has parts like wrap coils and an armature bar, running with the help of electromagnets, is designed to make a clear outline of a design and define the details for lining. You should insert groups of tattoo needles in a circle to insert the ink into the skin. And a tattoo machine shader is for shading work, which will be slightly heavier than a liner one. It uses needles grouping in flat rows and may contain large coils to give the machine enough power to color a large shading area.

You may find a kind of classical tattoo machine that can do both lining and shading that is sold at around $5 in some tattoo supply stores. However, you should never forget to change the contact spring to make it work smoothly as it requires different contact springs for shader and liner.

Then, let's continue with rotary tattoo machines.

Unlike a liner and shader running on wrap coils, it runs on a motor, or something like a pulley system, which makes less noise at work. I saw many rotary machines with beautiful and neat looking in tattoo supply stores, all with high performance and stable working status. Some rotary machines have three functions in one, being able to do shading and lining on body, eyebrow and lip, which is really favorable for those who like tattoo body art and tattoo make up.

The last one, handmade tattoo machines, which are made by bare hands. Professional tattoo artists make that using their own skills to meet their own needs, so you can't find any two handmade machines are alike. More money and processing time are needed for these machines, but they will be a good choice when you have some special requires that common machines don't have.

Before you decide to get some tattoo machine supplies, you should make sure that you have enough knowledge of those tattoo equipment and tattooing, or you may leave scars on the body, or even get infected with blood diseases like hepatitis.