OKLAHOMA TATTOO FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Ear piercing gun - ✔✔A device that pierces an individual's ear lobe using a single-
use stud and clasp ear piercing system.
✔✔Equipment - ✔✔All machinery, including fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, devices,
implements, furniture, display and storage areas, sinks and all other apparatus and
appurtenances used in connection with body piercing and tattooing procedures.
✔✔First aid certification - ✔✔A training program that includes instruction in injury and
acute illness.
✔✔Germicidal solution - ✔✔A cleansing agent that kills disease-causing
microorganisms on hard surfaces and is a disinfectant or sanitizer registered with the
Environmental Protection Agency.
✔✔Germicidal soap - ✔✔An agent designed for use on the skin that kills disease-
causing microorganisms.
✔✔Handwashing facility - ✔✔A sink equipped with hot and cold or tempered running
water under pressure, used for washing hands, arms or other portions of the body.
✔✔Hot water - ✔✔Water that attains at least 100°F.
✔✔Integrator strips - ✔✔Strips or devices used in pouches or autoclave chambers that
prove the condition of sterilization has been met.
✔✔Jewelry - ✔✔Any personal ornament inserted into a newly pierced area.
✔✔License - ✔✔Written approval by the Department for an artist to perform body
piercing or tattooing or written approval by the Department to operate a body piercing or
tattoo establishment.
✔✔Operator - ✔✔Any person who owns, controls, operates, conducts, or manages any
permanent body piercing establishment, whether actually performing the work of body
piercing or not.
✔✔Procedure surface - ✔✔Any part of furniture or fixtures designed to contact the
client's body during a body piercing or tattooing procedure or any surface where
instruments and equipment have come into contact with the client during the procedure.
✔✔Regulatory authority - ✔✔A representative, such as an onsite inspector, of the
Department.
, ✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Any object (sterile or contaminated) that may purposefully or
accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or mucosa including, but not limited to, pre-
sterilized single use piercing or tattooing needles and razor blades.
✔✔Sharps container - ✔✔A puncture-resistant, leak-proof container that is labeled or
color coded that can be closed for disposal.
✔✔Single use - ✔✔Products or items that are intended for one-time, one-person use
and are disposed of after use on each client including, but not limited to, cotton swabs
or balls, tissues or paper products, paper or plastic cups, gauze and sanitary coverings,
razors, piercing and tattooing needles and protective gloves.
✔✔Skills challenge - ✔✔A testing mechanism that enables persons who have received
training in tattooing and have experience in performing tattooing procedures to
challenge the training requirements by satisfactorily completing the written examination.
✔✔Spore test - ✔✔A biological monitoring process in which a third party laboratory
culturing service is engaged to monitor spore growth on media processed in an
autoclave.
✔✔Statim autoclave - ✔✔A brand of autoclave utilizing the steam flush pressure pulse
method of sterilization.
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔A process resulting in the destruction of all forms of microbial life,
including highly resistant bacterial spores.
✔✔Student - ✔✔An individual approved for the curriculum portion of the training
program and cannot perform tattoo or body piercing procedures on a human.
✔✔Tattooing - ✔✔The practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human
body by scarring or inserting a pigment under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other
related equipment; provided that medical micropigmentation, performed pursuant to the
provisions of the Oklahoma Medical Micropigmentation Regulation Act, shall not be
construed to be tattooing.
✔✔Temporary artist license - ✔✔A person that is not licensed through the State of
Oklahoma that is a body piercing artist or tattoo artist doing temporary work at a
licensed body piercing or tattoo establishment not to exceed 30 days.
✔✔Ultrasonic cleaning unit - ✔✔A piece of medical equipment utilizing ultrasound
energy to thoroughly clean instruments for body piercing or tattooing.
✔✔Universal precautions - ✔✔An approach to infection control that treats all human
blood and certain human body fluids as if known to be infectious for Human
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Ear piercing gun - ✔✔A device that pierces an individual's ear lobe using a single-
use stud and clasp ear piercing system.
✔✔Equipment - ✔✔All machinery, including fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, devices,
implements, furniture, display and storage areas, sinks and all other apparatus and
appurtenances used in connection with body piercing and tattooing procedures.
✔✔First aid certification - ✔✔A training program that includes instruction in injury and
acute illness.
✔✔Germicidal solution - ✔✔A cleansing agent that kills disease-causing
microorganisms on hard surfaces and is a disinfectant or sanitizer registered with the
Environmental Protection Agency.
✔✔Germicidal soap - ✔✔An agent designed for use on the skin that kills disease-
causing microorganisms.
✔✔Handwashing facility - ✔✔A sink equipped with hot and cold or tempered running
water under pressure, used for washing hands, arms or other portions of the body.
✔✔Hot water - ✔✔Water that attains at least 100°F.
✔✔Integrator strips - ✔✔Strips or devices used in pouches or autoclave chambers that
prove the condition of sterilization has been met.
✔✔Jewelry - ✔✔Any personal ornament inserted into a newly pierced area.
✔✔License - ✔✔Written approval by the Department for an artist to perform body
piercing or tattooing or written approval by the Department to operate a body piercing or
tattoo establishment.
✔✔Operator - ✔✔Any person who owns, controls, operates, conducts, or manages any
permanent body piercing establishment, whether actually performing the work of body
piercing or not.
✔✔Procedure surface - ✔✔Any part of furniture or fixtures designed to contact the
client's body during a body piercing or tattooing procedure or any surface where
instruments and equipment have come into contact with the client during the procedure.
✔✔Regulatory authority - ✔✔A representative, such as an onsite inspector, of the
Department.
, ✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Any object (sterile or contaminated) that may purposefully or
accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or mucosa including, but not limited to, pre-
sterilized single use piercing or tattooing needles and razor blades.
✔✔Sharps container - ✔✔A puncture-resistant, leak-proof container that is labeled or
color coded that can be closed for disposal.
✔✔Single use - ✔✔Products or items that are intended for one-time, one-person use
and are disposed of after use on each client including, but not limited to, cotton swabs
or balls, tissues or paper products, paper or plastic cups, gauze and sanitary coverings,
razors, piercing and tattooing needles and protective gloves.
✔✔Skills challenge - ✔✔A testing mechanism that enables persons who have received
training in tattooing and have experience in performing tattooing procedures to
challenge the training requirements by satisfactorily completing the written examination.
✔✔Spore test - ✔✔A biological monitoring process in which a third party laboratory
culturing service is engaged to monitor spore growth on media processed in an
autoclave.
✔✔Statim autoclave - ✔✔A brand of autoclave utilizing the steam flush pressure pulse
method of sterilization.
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔A process resulting in the destruction of all forms of microbial life,
including highly resistant bacterial spores.
✔✔Student - ✔✔An individual approved for the curriculum portion of the training
program and cannot perform tattoo or body piercing procedures on a human.
✔✔Tattooing - ✔✔The practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human
body by scarring or inserting a pigment under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other
related equipment; provided that medical micropigmentation, performed pursuant to the
provisions of the Oklahoma Medical Micropigmentation Regulation Act, shall not be
construed to be tattooing.
✔✔Temporary artist license - ✔✔A person that is not licensed through the State of
Oklahoma that is a body piercing artist or tattoo artist doing temporary work at a
licensed body piercing or tattoo establishment not to exceed 30 days.
✔✔Ultrasonic cleaning unit - ✔✔A piece of medical equipment utilizing ultrasound
energy to thoroughly clean instruments for body piercing or tattooing.
✔✔Universal precautions - ✔✔An approach to infection control that treats all human
blood and certain human body fluids as if known to be infectious for Human
