Mercy Vale
BOOKS OPENTraditional · Blackwork · Script
Bold traditional that will still read at eighty.
I tape the drawing to the wall the night before. If it stops me on the way past, it is ready.
@mercy.strayanchorLIC 00000 (sample)
Custom tattoo studio · five chairs · Kessler Point
Permanent is the point.
Five artists, one standard: work you will still stand behind at sixty. Custom pieces drawn once and never repeated, a wall of one-off flash, and a counter kept cleaner than most kitchens.
BOOKS OPEN · 3 ARTISTSGUEST SPOT · MARISOL VEGA
The custom lane
Bring the idea. Your artist draws it for you alone, and the drawing dies with the tattoo. It never repeats.
Start a custom pieceThe flash wall
Painted sheets, ready to go. Claim one and it comes off the wall for good.
See available flashSHEET Nº 12STRAY ANCHOR · FLASH
ONE-OFF · NEVER REPEATEDDAGGER & ROSE · FOREARM
210 Harrow Lane, Kessler PointTue to Fri · 11:00 to 19:00Sat · 10:00 to 18:0018+ with photo ID · licensed studio · walk-ins between bookings
Available flash
One sheet, one owner.
Every design on this wall is painted here and tattooed once. When a sheet is claimed it is stamped and retired, so what you take from the wall stays yours.
Nº 07ONE-OFF
Nº 12CLAIMED
Nº 03ONE-OFF
Nº 19ONE-OFF
Nº 22ONE-OFF
Nº 15CLAIMED
Walk-ins take the chair between bookings, first name in the book wins. Flash from the wall only; custom work starts with a request.
Claim a sheetThe roster
Five hands. One standard.
Every artist keeps their own book and their own style lane. Check the stamp, read the voice, pick your hand.
Dutch Holloway
BOOKS OPENTraditional · Panthers · Banners
Twenty years of panthers, daggers and roses, none of them twice.
People ask for small first. I talk them up one size, and they thank me at the healed photo.
@dutch.strayanchorLIC 00000 (sample)
June Okafor
BOOKS CLOSEDFine line · Botanical · Single needle
Single-needle botanical work with the patience it demands.
Fine line is not faint line. It has to hold, so I build it to hold.
@june.strayanchorLIC 00000 (sample)
Sable Quinn
BOOKS OPENBlackwork · Ornamental · Dotwork
Ornamental blackwork built to the body, not pasted on it.
I draw on the skin as much as on paper. The shoulder tells you where the pattern wants to go.
@sable.strayanchorLIC 00000 (sample)
Marisol Vega
GUESTING · 2 WEEKSColour · Neo-traditional
Guest spot: saturated colour that heals as loud as it goes in.
Colour is a promise you make at year ten, so I pack it in properly the first time.
@marisol.vega.inkGUEST PERMIT 00000 (sample)
The ritual
How a custom piece happens
No mystery, no cold plunge. Five steps from the first message to the last wash, the same for every chair in the room.
The stencil press: the last look before it becomes permanent.
- 01
The request
Send the idea through the booking form: artist, placement, size, references. It lands in the book, not in a buried DM thread.
- 02
The consult
Twenty minutes at the counter or on a call. You and your artist settle design, scale and sessions before anything is drawn.
- 03
The deposit
A flat deposit holds your dates and comes off the final price. The drawing starts once the date is held.
- 04
The session
Stencil on, checked in the mirror, then ink. Fresh needles opened in front of you, breaks whenever you need them.
- 05
The aftercare
You leave wrapped, with the sheet that tells you exactly what to do for six weeks. Healed photos go in the book.
The arithmetic of mastery
Sample figures12
Years the door has been open
5
Artists on the roster
38,000
Collective hours under the needle
9
Convention awards on the wall
The counter
Loud wall. Clean counter.
The wall is maximal because that is the tradition. The counter is clinical because that is the law, and ours runs cleaner than it has to.
Operator licence LIC 00000 (sample) · registration papers at the counter
Opened in front of you
Needles and cartridges are single-use, sealed, and opened at the chair where you can see the date on the pouch.
The autoclave keeps a diary
Every cycle is logged and spore-tested on schedule. The log lives on the counter, not in a drawer. Ask to see it.
Registered, on paper
The studio holds council skin-penetration registration and every artist carries their own licence. The wall by the counter shows the lot.
18+, no exceptions
Photo ID every time, no tattoos under eighteen, and no numbing walk-ins without a consult. Sober clients only.
The clean counter
Send the idea. We'll take it from here.
Four short steps: your artist, the piece, the idea, your dates. It arrives structured, your artist reads it, and you get a real answer instead of a DM left on seen.
A $150 deposit (sample figure) holds your dates and comes off the final price. One free reschedule with 48 hours notice.
Start the request
Requests answered inside two working days.
