Is it Safe?

We maintain a high standard of cleanliness and safety at the studio. We make sure that all tools are clean and sanitary. Each medical grade needle and tube used is individually packaged and sterilized. Ink caps (the little cups tattoo artists put ink in) are disposable as well, and not re-used. We are happy to show you our workspace and answer any questions you may have about the equipment. When visiting for your consultation, we are open to your questions and happy to answer and make you feel safe and comfortable. Before getting tattooed, we shave and disinfect the area of your skin that is going to be worked on. This is necessary especially for making sure that there is no risk of infection when your tattoo is healing. Our artists and anyone else helping to clean and set up the station wear fresh disposable gloves, and we make sure not to contaminate them by touching dirty things while they are working. When applying Vaseline to your skin before you get tattooed, we use gloves and use a onetime disposable small container and apply it to your body. We dispose used needle in clearly marked sharps containers for safe disposal of old needles. While cleaning the station we spray and wipe down everything in the work area with a medical grade sanitizing spray. All disposable items are thrown out, and used needles should be placed in the sharps container.

I am dark, can i get a tattoo done ?

When your freshly new tattoo is done, the ink is deposited millimeters under the top layer of skin. It depends on the shade that your skin is. Bold, solid colors are always the best as they will show through just about any skin tone. ​The fact is a layer of skin on top of the [ink], which acts like a translucent layer on top of whatever color you put underneath the skin. The stuff that makes us brown people brown—is produced in this translucent layer, also known as the epidermis. Tattoo ink is injected below the layer of melanin, so the color of someone’s skin sits above the tattoo ink but below the surface of the skin. Tattoo ink will work the same way on everyone's skin, and there isn't some kind of magical proprietary formula that will allow you to have a yellow tattoo that pops like it's painted on. Certain tones, cooler or warmer, have certain complimentary colors that work better . But generally, if you aren’t really dark, you have a fairly open palette.

Does my growth affect the tattoo?