How do you get an Ohio tattoo license?

Answer 1

There are several steps you must first take. First the Ohio Department of Health requires that you be trained first aid, and blood born pathagens. Both of these can be obtained easily at your local red cross. Second the state requires that you have done either a tattoo school or apprenticeship in order to show you have enough knowledge to perform the job. Go to your local health department and they will give you a copy of the regulations regarding tattooing and tattoo parlors.

Answer 2

are there tattoo schools close to Columbus Ohio

None that I have ever heard of, but as I have stated on this site once before, DO NOT go to a "Tattoo School". If you do go, you are simply wasting your time and your money, and most importantly, you're crucifying your possible future career.

The main problem with these "schools" is that they pump you out too quickly and push you through the learning phase and ensuring that you will not follow most of what they are "teaching" you to begin with. The biggest slight to these "schools" is that they try to have you perfect your tattooing application on the poor guinea pigs coming in for free work. You CANNOT learn application in 2 weeks!!! Any moron can shove ink into the skin, but it take a professional to do it right the first time without chewing up the skin and causing needless trauma to the site because they learned over the course of at least a solid YEAR to learn the right way to do it, and not just to shovel as much ink in as fast as they can. Additionally, these schools do not take the time to make sure that you know how to draw, understand color theory, they rush you through the Kindergarten version of Bloodborne Pathogens training and they rarely even address cross contamination protocol, needle stick emergency procedures, first aid, tattoo history, terminology, etc. etc., etc.

In the end, you will have paid the money to go to a fake school, will get printed out for you on an ink jet your "Diploma" which will get you literally laughed out of any shop worth its artists because what you have is a worthless piece of paper that tells the artists in the shop that you couldn't be bothered to go about it the right way in a shop and learn the right way slowly as opposed to being rushed through the course and having the swindlers who ran the program patting you on the back and telling you that you are ready, when in fact you learned practically nothing and it will then be the responsibility of the artists in the shop to teach you everything that you should have learned to begin with. So...long story short, if you want to get into our profession, go about it the right way and get into a shop as an apprentice. Go to the "school" at your own risk and folly.

Answer 3

yes