Guesting at June Bug
Review our expectations below to make sure your practice aligns with our studio. Sanitation is also related to safety and consent! If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
SUPPLIES
June Bug Provides:
Consent form, A&D, gloves, paper towels, ink cups, dental bibs, drape sheets, alcohol, green soap, madacide, razors, tongue depressors, grip tape, plastic wrap, barrier film, all printing needs including inkjet stencil or thermal stencil, privacy screen
Furniture, cleaning and sanitation supplies, paper towels, ink cups, green soap, water
Guest artist provides:
Machine, needles, ink, and any additional supplies the guest artist prefers, such as second-skin bandages, headlamp, etc. Individual artists at the shop may be able to lend or sell you supplies as needed. Please don’t hesitate to ask for specific accommodations or supplies you may need ahead of time so we can make arrangements! :)
Policy for Guests
Our shop cut is 30%, with a $300 daily cap. Please note our shop minimum is $150. If you trade while here, we ask that you please pay out $40 for supplies. Please fill out a drop form at the end of each day, found in our guest artist
Please do not use the supplies on shelves near your host station– we have dedicated bottles of green soap, distilled water, alcohol etc. for guests. The black storage cabinets are where you may source all the provided supplies for your setups!
Use Madacide on your furniture and tray after each client and at the end of day, and reset the bed to “chair” orientation.
Take trash out to dumpster (located up the driveway on the south/left of the shop).
Refill green soap/water/madacide/paper towels if needed.
Keep your host station tidy.
Consent is at the heart of our studio and tattooing practices. We strongly encourage our clients to advocate for themselves throughout the process.
It is essential to check in with your client regularly during the appointment, to reaffirm that they have full agency over their body and needs. This is especially important when touching them throughout the tattoo, whether that is to prep their skin, continue after a break, lay the bandage, adjust clothing, etc.
General info
Creature comforts-
Our break room has hooks for bags and other items, the fridge/freezer is available for personal use and is not a “shared” area. The microwave is available as well. Shared Snacks and water are available on the shelves for you or your client. There is an electric kettle, tea, an aeropress with coffee grounds available as well. Please feel free to help yourself!
Professional needs-
Shop iPad has the consent form on the Safari app. Code 9999
Client bathroom is down the hall to the left of the large mirror, the back bathroom by the printers is for artists only.
The printers work over WiFi.
The printer with “3263A3” after the name is the color/regular printer.
The stencil printer is the other one. There is a thermal printer available as well.
Supplies listed above are found in the storage cabinet labeled with “shared supplies”
Each station is labeled in the top left of the front of the drawers. Please do not use the supplies in the drawers or shelves at the station you are guesting at, except for madacide; please use fresh supplies from the cabinet. We have dedicated wash bottles for our guests.
Cling wrap is located near the procedure room sink.
A privacy screen is in the back with the printers. Pasties are also available in the supply cabinet.
We have aftercare ointment available for $20, and a small size for $6. Use the POS (code 9999) or have your client Venmo/zelle the shop directly.
Closing:
Fill out your drop form for the day and pay out June Bug
Madacide Furniture and Tray, reset furniture to “chair” orientation
Refill green soap/water/madacide/paper towels if needed
Sweep out station floor
Take trash out to dumpster (located up the driveway on the south/left of the shop)
Closing procedures are also posted in breakroom!
Sanitation expectations
It is of the utmost importance that we uphold a high standard of sanitation, for the safety of our clients and one another. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding set-up and take-down.
Here is a brief guide on how to safely prepare your station while guesting at June Bug Tattoo.
Guests will be provided disposables and while they are welcome to use the resident artists table, arm rests, tray tables, and lights, we ask that they not use anything inside the station furniture or on the stations’ shelves.
Set-up:
Wash your paws, with soap and water, dry with a clean paper towel.
Glove up
Spray all the surfaces that you intend to use during your session: chair, tray table, lamp, machine, bottles, pillows, etc.
Wait for the full ‘kill time’, between 1-3 minutes.
Wipe down surfaces with madacide/opticide wipes.
Wash hands, glove up.
Wrap tray table and arm rest with saran wrap (use only distilled water to help the saran stay in place).
Place the dental bib, your paper towels, razor, ink cup(s), and needle(s) on the tray.
Bag your bottles, then using a sterilized tongue depressor, add a small amount of ointment onto the tray
Place a drape sheet onto the entirety of your massage table, cover pillows with saran or drape sheet.
Ink is added to the cups after the client’s skin is fully prepped, with a clean pair of gloves and paper towel. Needle cartridges only opened after client is present.
Washing your hands and changing your gloves will be repeated anytime you change a task or want to touch something that is not sanitized (dirty phone, speaker, door, etc.)
When the tattoo is complete, remove gloves and wash hands
Take-down:
Wash hands, glove up.
Remove anything that may require two hands, (drape sheet, saran on lights, pillows, arm rest, etc.) and safely throw away into your station’s trash can.
Using a hot(BBP) and cold(clean) dual hand method, (remembering to not switch hands during this process), unwrap your machine, safely place the used needles in the biohazard needle container, and unbag the bottles.
Carefully remove the saran from your tray table including all the waste contents. starting from the edge and roll it up into a ball and throw it in the biohazard trash can
Remove anything that may require two hands, (drape sheet, saran on lights, pillows, arm rest, etc.) and safely throw away into your station’s trash can.
Remove gloves, sanitize or wash hands, glove up
Spray Madacide on anything that was used during the session, wait for the proper ‘kill time’.
Wipe down with Madacide/opticide wipes
Wash, sanitize, glove up.
Sweep, mop.
Safely empty trash can and rebag/wipe down if it is full.
Wash hands!
THANK YOU! Please don’t hesitate to ask questions. We gladly welcome any feedback you have.