How to take good quality hand prints
Time spent on taking excellent quality hand prints is time well spent! 
If you are considering having a reading over the internet, it cannot be sufficiently emphasised how important it is to ensure you take really good prints of both of your hands. When a hand reader looks at your hands, they need to be able to see the tiniest of detail of your hand shape, it's outline, the contours of your fingers, your skin ridge patterns - and not only this, they look very, very carefully at the detail found in the lines in your palms. It is very difficult for a hand reader to interpret fuzzy, unclear lines in your hands. Hand readers look for not only the direction of your palmar lines, but also their quality, and if this cannot be seen, the chances of providing an accurate reading are actually quite low.
The more hazy and unclear your prints, the more hazy and unclear will be your reading! If you provide clear, detailed prints, you are far more likely to receive a clear and detailed reading. Time spent on taking clear prints is time well spent, so although you may be keen to send your handprints as soon as possible, remember that a little time and care at this early stage is well worth it.
To take good quality prints you will need:
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Paper
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Slim line Pen
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Water based printing ink in blue or black (available from art and craft stores)
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A four inch rubber roller (from same art and craft store. A small bottle may be sufficient to roll the ink)
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A tile, piece of acetate or glass to roll out the ink.
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A towel to place under the paper to cushion your hand while taking the print
Squeeze out a little of the ink onto the tile and roll it out with the roller until the ink is spread evenly. With sufficient ink now on the roller, roll the ink out onto one of your hands, ensuring you cover the whole hand, from the tips of your fingers to the crease lines at your wrist. Don't use too much ink or it will blob on the paper and hide important detail!
When your whole hand is covered in ink, with your hand in the most natural position for you, (don't close up your fingers or spread them out unnaturally) press your palm carefully down onto the paper, and draw around the outline with the pen, keeping as closely to the contours of your hand and fingers as possible.
If the hollow in the centre of your palm does not touch the paper, lift up your hand with the paper still stuck to it, and press very gently into the centre of your palm. Now carefully peel the paper off your hand. Check there are no blank areas which did not print, and also check that you can see the line detail as well as your fingerprint patterns. If there are areas missing, or the fingerprints do not show up, take the print again, and again, and again if necessary until you are satisfied with the quality of your print.
Now, before you finish, ink up your thumb and, with your hand and paper at the table edge, take another print of your thumb, by pressing very lightly with your thumb onto the paper. If you press hard at this stage, it will distort the thumb shape! Carefully draw around the thumb shape, and then press down a little harder to ensure you get a good print of the thumb and its thumbprint. Lift your thumb and check. If you are not satisfied that it represents your thumb accurately, do it again. Label your print with your name, date, date of birth, and also add whether the print is of your writing or non writing hand.
Now finally repeat this whole process with your other hand, and you are ready to scan your prints to send off for your reading.
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