Not even a pandemic has been able to bring down this growing business, which is crowding specialized studios with prior appointments while other sectors such as tourism or small businesses are dying. It is not that this practice is cheap and it can be very expensive if an allergic reaction or an infection occurs in the tattooed area. The Ministry of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía has published this January a guide for the self-control of tattoo, micropigmentation and piercing establishments and facilities at an autonomous level, which specifies the hygiene standards that professionals must follow to avoid health risks. A novelty that Javi Márquez, tattoo artist at El Sol Tattoo Shop, is not caught off guard.

"Tattoo artists must be constantly attentive to BOJA news in terms of hygiene and now there is more regulation, but before the inspectors came and they did not even know what they should be attentive to", Javier told this newspaper while tattooing a phrase on the arm of Fran, or Willy, as his friends call him. "My father died two months ago, so I want to carry this phrase to remember him," says the client, who engraved the first drawing on his body "when he was young and crazy," he says, and "then I covered it with another." In the next room Amber, a Dutch student, is about to tattoo the arches of the Mosque-Cathedral. It is the usual dynamic of El Sol, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary since its opening, with rising income.

"Fine line designs are becoming more fashionable fine line, in all ages, although here in Córdoba aesthetics are very important and felines, floral motifs, compasses or the commemoration of a relative do not fail”, explains Javi, specialized in the realistic tattoo style. After 11 years of training in this profession, he assures that "the beginnings are precarious" because there is still no specific accreditation for these professionals, who are integrated into the branch of aesthetics and makeup, with the breadth of possibilities that this entails. However, a competency accreditation will soon be launched to validate the skills of those who have practiced professionally. "This can make more people take it seriously, or it can generate the opposite effect that makes those who tattoo illegally at home flee from accreditation," Javi comments in this regard, without taking his eyes off the needle, which it must be renewed with each client, as well as ink bottles, gloves, disinfection of non-reusable material.

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Although sometimes complications occur despite careful hygienic measures. "Infections or allergic reactions can occur no matter how clean everything is," says Baldomero García Mir, a specialist dermatologist, who has seen "everything" in his office. "Polychrome tattoos cause skin allergies to a pigment of a specific color and cause a burn that is impossible to erase even for a laser, which does not work miracles nor is it an eraser," explains the specialist. For this reason, and although complications in tattoos are becoming less frequent due to increasing specialization, he recommends always resorting to the work of a professional tattoo artist.

It's a big world with more emotional benefits than meets the eye. This is confirmed by Merche Valenzuela, who is about to tattoo a lady's eyebrows using the microblading technique, and who also makes cancer tattoos for women who, due to cancer, have lost their breasts and want to have a new one again. nipple. "It comforts me a lot to see the reaction of these women when they look in the mirror," says Merche, also used to tattooing color on the lips and hair on bald heads.