The following is a walk through of the most commonly asked questions and some explanations of how we handle our booking process to make sure everything goes smoothly and efficiently.

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PRICING AND SIZEING

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I have actually made an entirely new page dedicated to pricing here!

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HOW DO WE DECIDE WHAT TO TATTOO?

"Why do you never choose my inquiry? I’ve tried x amount of times..."

Something that is probably the most important thing we consider when selecting tattoos, and we see a ton of this, is that people try to put too many things into one idea. They have a ton of favorite characters and colors and ideas and they want to see them all into their one tattoo idea. And while listing that out is easy enough, getting it all to flow into a single design is pretty tricky. Tattoo designs are almost always just 1 or 2 subject matters. A single character or item, maybe two. You want your design to be easily read and flow well with everything rather than cluttered and full of too many action lines and poor composition to not fit your body. Another thing to consider is color theory. If you use all of the colors because there are so many subjects in a design, then it’s tougher to get a complimentary color scheme in your tattoo that makes your tattoo have that extra ‘pop’.

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Here is an easy example of what I'm talking about.

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Inquiry A wants a tattoo on the inner left forearm. This person wants Lilo and Stitch holding a Scrump doll while sitting on a surf board with three ducklings and one of the ducks is holding a peanut butter sandwich for pudge the fish who is swimming under the surfboard next to squirt the turtle from finding nemo and Ariel from the little mermaid.

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Inquiry B wants a tattoo on the inner right forearm wants Stitch holding holding a Scrump doll with a big smile on his face cause he is happy.

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See the difference? While Inquiry A would be an adorable idea and would make an excellent print or shirt or something, it has far too many focus points and subject matters to flow well into a tattoo design. Inquiry B is concise and easily recognizable, and in my opinion would make for a way more successful tattoo. So that’s the inquiry that would get a response first. In this case, for Inquiry A, I’d suggest getting a few tattoos, one with Lilo holding the sandwich, then another of Stitch holding Scrump, and Ariel swimming with Squirt the turtle.

I promise you, keeping your idea simple will make for a brighter, more colorful tattoo, and has a better chance of you being happy with it for life.

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"My idea falls under exactly what you normally tattoo, why wasn’t I chosen?"

The easiest way to explain how we approach things is through this Halloween Candy example. 

 

Imagine you head out on Halloween night for a Trick or Treat adventure. You come home and have an entire giant bag of candy and you think to yourself, oh man, I can totally eat all of these! Then your hopes are shattered when your parent says, you can only have 40 pieces of the candy.

Now are you going to just reach into the bag and eat the first 40 pieces you grab? Probably not. You're going to dump the bag onto the bed and grab all of your favorites!

But if you have a particularly rough Halloween night, and you come home with 23 pieces of candy and you still can have up to the 40 pieces, then I bet you'd eat all 23 pieces. Even if they were peppermints!

 

This is how we approach my booking process. We only have a certain amount of appointment times through each of the scheduling windows. So, it's never that we do not want to do your tattoo, it's simply that we fill the books quickly with the pieces we are most drawn to at that time.

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HOW WE HANDLE NEW INQUIRES.

Once we open the books, we will leave them open for a few days up to a week or so and allow everyone the chance to send in an inquiry. We understand that people have work and lives and that not every one can make a first come first serve type deadline. So to be clear, we DO NOT book on a first come first serve basis. We want everyone to have a fair chance. 

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We have broken down our scheduling into some basic categories that can be quoted once we know a little more about the project you're wanting. There is obviously exceptions and variables that can affect final pricing and placement the day of, but hopefully if you made it this far, you have a better understanding of how things work!

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NOT EVERY EMAIL gets a response. 

With the amount of emails that are received during the book opening periods, not everyone will receive a response. This does not mean that your inquiry was a 'No' but rather there just was not enough time in the schedule for the piece. I reset the inbox with each book opening, so resubmitting is definitely encouraged. If we see a name a few times, we try to make sure we send out a response.

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