Custom work only · 214 Foundry Row, Bay 3 · Est. 2019
One client a day, three artists, no walk-in flash after four o'clock. The patch in the panel is a lining and shading pass at real speed — including the part nobody photographs, where each stroke bleeds a hair into the skin behind the needle. Then switch it to healed and see what you actually live with.
Stencil on
Twenty minutes old. The ink sits proud of the skin, that soft dark halo is plasma and surplus pigment spreading past the line, and the whole patch reads two to three shades heavier than it will end up. Every tattoo you have seen photographed looks like this.
Three weeks on. Roughly 15% lighter, halo gone, and each line has picked up about a third of a millimetre of softness as pigment settled into the dermis. That is normal healing, not fading — it is why we space the linework wider than the drawing needs.
Who is in the shop
You book a person, not a studio. Each of us draws your piece ourselves, from scratch, with you in the room for the first pass. Nobody here will copy another artist's tattoo off a screen — bring it as reference and we will draw you your own.
Blackwork, bold line, large-scale ornamental
Eleven years, six of them on sleeves and back pieces. Books in four-hour blocks because her work does not suit an hour here and there. Will tell you when a design is too small to survive twenty years.
Liner 9RL · shader 15M · line weight
Books open · next 12 SeptFine line botanical, single-needle script
Six years and a botany degree they insist is relevant. Draws from live plants on the bench by the window. Honest about the trade-off: single-needle work is beautiful at four weeks and needs a touch-up at four years.
Liner 3RL · single needle · line weight
Waitlist · 41 namesAmerican traditional, flash, cover-ups
Nineteen years, owns the place, sharpened his first liner on a kitchen table he still regrets. Takes the cover-up consults nobody else wants. Charges the same rate to fix someone else's work as to do his own.
Liner 7RL · shader 11M · line weight
Closed · returns 4 NovRates, deposits, flash
One rate for all three artists. We quote in time, not in guesses about size — an hour of Marisol's blackwork costs the same as an hour of Dez's linework, because it takes the same hour.
$100
It holds your date and it holds your drawing time. The deposit comes off your last session, not your first — so a one-sitting piece at four hours is $640 with $540 due on the day.
Move your date with more than 72 hours notice and the deposit moves with you, once. Under 72 hours, a no-show, or turning up drunk, and it is gone: that chair sat empty and the drawing was already done.
Cash and card both fine. Tips go straight to the artist and are never expected.
Flash sheet · fixed price by size · up to 3 in $140 · up to 5 in $180 · up to 7 in $240 · each design goes out three times, then it is retired ▸
Aftercare & shop rules
We do the tattoo in four hours. You do the healing over fourteen days, and the healing is what people see for the next thirty years. Read this before you book, not after.
Wrap stays on until you are home and can wash properly. If we sealed you with second-skin film, leave it 24 hours — up to 48 is fine. It will fill with cloudy fluid; that is plasma and ink, not infection. If it starts leaking at an edge, take it off and wash.
Wash twice a day: clean hands, fragrance-free liquid soap, lukewarm water, twenty seconds, no cloth. Pat dry with paper towel — bath towels hold bacteria and catch on the edges. Then the thinnest smear of unscented ointment, barely a shine. A shiny tattoo is a suffocating tattoo.
It flakes. Everything goes cloudy and grey and you will privately decide we ruined it. Switch to plain unscented lotion, twice a day. Do not pick, scratch or scrub — pigment comes away with anything you pull off, and that is what leaves a patchy line.
New skin, slightly duller than day one, slightly softer lines. That is exactly the change on the healed setting up in the hero. Stop the ointment. Keep moisturising.
SPF 30 or better, forever. Sun fades black faster than anything else we can name — faster than age, friction or bad aftercare. A tattoo kept out of the sun for ten years still looks like a tattoo.
Consultation
Bring three things: reference you actually like, the placement, and a rough size in inches. We will tell you honestly whether it will hold up at that size, which of the three of us should draw it, and what it will cost in hours. If the answer is that your idea needs to be bigger or simpler, you will hear that in the consult rather than after the deposit.
Consults run Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, in person at the shop or over video. We reply to booking requests on Tuesdays — one of us, not a bot.