Consent records, state rules, and running a shop without a paper binder.
Oregon's record rule asks for 5 things a blank waiver template does not come with, from the artist's license number to a note written after the tattoo.
Read it →32 states have their own texting rule. 6 close a whole day, 5 cap your messages, and one window clears all 51. Every rule read at the statute.
Read it →What 29 CFR 1910.1030 requires, what OSHA wrote to tattoo parlors about 1099 artists, and why the clock is 12 months federally and once-ever in Florida.
Read it →TRF has been on tattoo shop counters for years, on an iPad. We put the form on the client's own phone. What each costs and what changes at the counter.
Read it →The first App Store result for a tattoo waiver app is Wavrr, at $189.99 a year for 1 artist. Ours is 1 flat price for the whole shop, both read at the source.
Read it →Both states bar tattooing under 18, then write in one exception: covering a tattoo already there. In both, the rule and the statute ask for different things.
Read it →Whether a parent can sign a minor into a tattoo in all 50 states and DC, with the age floor, what the consent has to include, and the citation for each.
Read it →StabPad is a free tattoo consent form shops have liked since 2023. What free buys, where the signed form ends up, and what a down day costs a walk-in shop.
Read it →Tattoo Studio Pro gives consent forms away. Here is what free costs at the counter, what their suite runs per artist, and where the two products differ.
Read it →Whether a parent can sign a minor into a body piercing in all 50 states and DC: the age floors, the paperwork, the earlobe carve-outs, each cited to the rule.
Read it →Smartwaiver meters your signatures by the month. We charge one price for the year. Both read off the live pricing pages, plus what each form asks.
Read it →Which states require a health questionnaire before a tattoo, where the questions go, the conditions most named, and what the other 31 screen for. All 51, cited.
Read it →Which states require written tattoo aftercare instructions, what goes on the sheet, the 15 that make the client sign for it, and the 6 that hand it over first.
Read it →A signature on a phone counts in federal law and every state. What your tattoo rule adds: the 6 that say digital, the notary, the record that holds up.
Read it →32 states require a tattoo consent form and 33 rules list what goes on it. Every state's list in one table, the rule linked, and the lines most agree on.
Read it →Which states require a photo ID check before a tattoo, what goes on the record, and why the states with no rule still expect you to look. All 51, each cited.
Read it →How long tattoo client records have to be kept in all 50 states and DC, read from each state's own regulation, with the citation beside every number.
Read it →Built in 2023 for a friend's shop, quietly signing waivers every day since. Now any shop can put the QR code on the counter.
Read it →The fields a consent record has to carry and how long you have to keep it, read straight from the regulations of 3 states, in plain language.
Read it →Most waiver tools bill by the signature. Here is what that meter costs a real shop in a busy month, and why our price is one number for the year.
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