Vivek’s work is clean, neat and professional. He is very compassionate and understanding of pain tolerance. I got a 6 hour tattoo where appropriate breaks were taken, and pleasant conversations were made.
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A luxury tattoo studio should be judged the way you’d judge a tailor, not a hotel. The espresso and the furniture are gone by the time you get home. The tattoo is the part you keep for fifty years.
Free consultation. No deposit yet.
Here is how to tell the difference before you book, at any studio, including this one.
What to ask, and what you should hear back. The foot of each tile is how we work.
Ask how long your piece will take and how many clients the artist takes in a day. A studio running four chairs at speed cannot give any one piece the hours it needs. Furniture is bought once; your artist’s time is spent on you, one hour at a time, and it is the only thing on the invoice that ends up on your skin.
Flash and internet references get scaled to whatever space is available. A custom piece is drawn around your actual anatomy: how the shoulder moves, how the ribs curve, where the design sits when your arm is down. Ask to see an artist’s drawings, not only their finished photos. The drawing is where the thinking happens.
This is the real test. A studio that wants your money will tattoo anything you ask for. A studio that wants your fifty-year tattoo will tell you when fine detail is too small to survive, when a placement will blur, or when an idea would be better at twice the size.
If nobody has ever disagreed with you in a consultation, you were sold to, not advised.
Our artists take a short break roughly every hour, five minutes to stretch, rest their eyes and step back. It is not lost time. It is how an artist re-reads the work and catches what they would have missed at hour four.
And if an artist says they are stopping for the day, that is the luxury, not the inconvenience. Quality drops before energy runs out.
Tattoo Lab We would rather book you a second session than finish tired.
Study it carefully and be specific. Everything is easy to change on paper and permanent on skin. Ask for another round if you need one. That is what the drawing stage is for.
Tattoo Lab You see a draft of your design before the appointment, and you get to ask for changes. See how booking and consultations work →
The artist’s work ends when the tattoo does. Yours is just starting.
Tattoo Lab You get aftercare explained in person and in writing, and an artist you can message weeks later if something looks wrong. Nobody here is too busy for that question. Read our tattoo aftercare guide →
Vivek’s work is clean, neat and professional. He is very compassionate and understanding of pain tolerance. I got a 6 hour tattoo where appropriate breaks were taken, and pleasant conversations were made.
A high rate with a rushed session is just an expensive rushed session. Compare hours and drawings, not rates.
A central address buys parking problems, not better linework.
You will spend twenty minutes there and the rest of your life wearing the result.
A studio that will not give you a range before you walk in is managing you, not quoting you.
We are not pretending comfort is irrelevant. A six-hour session in a bad chair makes a worse tattoo. So we have both:
The difference is the order. The room serves the tattoo, not the other way around.
You do not need to take our word for any of this. Use these at any studio you are considering:
If the answers are vague on all six, the price is the least of your problems.
We publish a real price list rather than asking you to enquire. What moves the number is size, detail, placement, colour against black and grey, and how many sessions the piece needs. Your artist explains the reasoning before you commit, not after.
Prices exclude tax.
Everything on this page describes how we actually work. The safety claims (permit, training, single-use needles) are checkable, and the checklist above is written so you can test any studio with it, not just ours.
This page is general guidance, not medical advice. Your artist will give you advice specific to your skin, your placement and your design.
The hours your artist spends on it, and the thinking that goes in before the needle does. A custom design drawn for your anatomy, an honest opinion about what will and will not age well, unhurried sessions, and aftercare that continues after you have paid. Furniture and espresso are hospitality, not craft.
No. A high hourly rate with a rushed session is just an expensive rushed session. Compare the hours quoted, the drawings, and healed photos in the style you want, not the rate on its own.
Consultations are always free. For a detailed or complex custom project a consultation is necessary rather than optional, and we still do not charge for it. You meet the artist, they sketch and talk through a plan, and nobody pressures you to book that day.
Yes. Once your deposit is placed and the design work begins, your artist sends you a draft to review before your appointment. Designing starts after the deposit. That is our policy, and it is what makes the drawing stage worth the artist’s time.
You ask for changes, and the artist updates it. Be as specific as you can, and study it carefully. Even a finalised design can be adjusted on the day, because placement and size read differently once you are in the chair, and we keep looking for improvements right up to the end.
Send your idea, your rough budget and where you want it. You will get an honest opinion on whether it will work, roughly how many hours it needs, and what we would change. Consultations are always free, and there is no pressure to book on the day.
