January guest artist!

Detroit artist, Madison will be guest spotting this January 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th! We’re so excited to have her hang with us! Her work style is 🖤⛓️tough femme meets trad⛓️🖤. DM @porcelain.moonlight on instagram to book! Or text us with any questions 412-541-6006.

Guest Artist Bonez this August 2024

⛓️⛓️Bonez will be here doing brutalism tattoos, scarification , UV light tattoos, and a bunch of other cool $hit! Check out his website linked below! Specific days to be announced. To book contact the artist directly, but feel free to text us 412-541-6006 to enquire with assistance or questions! ⛓️⛓️

Upcoming events

We are excited to announce we have two upcoming events this month. Kati Zmenkowski and Kait Townsend will be tattooing at Pittsburgh Tattoo Mania , June 21-23 and Avery Boster will be selling her unique handmade jewelry there as well. Pittsburgh Tattoo Mania is at the David L Lawrence Convention Center and is a new convention with over 200 artists and daily contests. Mike Szymarek will be tattooing at Sleepfest on June 22 in the south side works, Sleepfest is an all day arts and music festival, a portion of the proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh Women’s Center and Shelter.

Have a look around our cozy little shop!

4516 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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PORTFOLIO UPDATE!

I just did a photo dump of over 300 tattoo photos from the last handful of years and I’m so excited to finally have an updated portfolio to show all of you! If you like what you see, please support us and share your favorite tattoos on your social media! Thank you everyone who let me tattoo you over the past 16+ years. I love you all! Happy new year 2024!

New T-shirts coming soon! SPRING2024

New shop hours!

2024 is coming soon! And with it comes new shop hours! Our (in person) walk-in hours will now be Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:00 noon to 6:00pm. But as always please continue to text our walk-in app 24/7 , 7 days a week for the possibility of other walk-in availability or for questions regarding a new appointment, existing tattoo or aftercare. 412-541-6006

WE ARE DOING TOOTH GEMS!

UPDATE: 2024 WE ARE NO LONGER OFFERING TOOTH GEMS as it seems teeth are just a figment of your imagination.

We are now doing tooth gems! Give that smile a sparkle!Walk-ins Mondays with other availability by appt! Text US 412-541-6006!!!

Hello Creatures, Beings, Outsiders, and Things in-between.

With the bold dismissal of our right on June 24th, in regards to our bodies, we decided to, and have held a fundraiser for 3 organizations:

Midwest Access Coalition - https://www.midwestaccesscoalition.org

Western Pennsylvania - https://www.wpafundforchoice.org

Plan C -https://www.plancpills.org

The community came to support these orgs, and our goal of reaching $3,000 overall has been successful. All proceeds went directly to each organization of clients choice. Each organization is linked above, so go check them out!

It’s lovely, encouraging, and humbling to see that this goal was met. Seeing such an abundance of courage and support for our united community  was shown , that we will be hosting another fundraiser in the future!

We want to thank everyone who came, who messaged us, who emailed us, for supporting the organizations, for being cool and getting a tattoo, and for sharing your stories.

So again, everyone, thank you~

New things happening!

Firstly, we are very sad to announce that Christianne will be leaving us at the end of the month to open her own private studio. The positive is that she will only be right up the street from us on Liberty Ave!

Next we have a new artist starting part time and a new shop assistant ! Look for posts about them soon. They are both very cool chill humans and for sure a good fit with us. We are still looking for one more full time artist!

Lastly we have been slowly renovating to now showcase art and goods for sale in the front of the shop! Renovations should be done soon! Look out for local artist goods and work there!

WALK-INS

Hey! We are taking walk-ins now! But because of covid still being a concern we are doing TEXT-INs. Text us for walk in availability and well get back to you on the spot. Our Text number is 412-541-6006.

We’re open!

It seems like this has taken a very long time. The building process was hard and unexpected. For those of you who know the details of this , it was wild. But now we’re all laughing about it.

There is still a lot to do; small details like some floor trim, window graphics etc. But we’re all in and functioning again! Kati’s apprentice , Kait, has a fully built space of her own and is about to start tattooing !