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.
Work you will still be glad of at sixty, from five artists who work to one standard. Custom pieces are drawn once and never repeated, and the flash on the wall is one-off. The counter is 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 once it is on your skin the drawing is retired. It is never tattooed again.
Start a custom pieceThe flash wall
Painted sheets, ready to go. Claim one and it comes off the wall and is never tattooed again.
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
A sheet is tattooed once, then retired.
The designs on this wall are painted here and tattooed once. When a sheet is claimed it is stamped and retired, so the piece you take from the wall is yours alone.
Nº 07ONE-OFF
Nº 12CLAIMED
Nº 03ONE-OFF
Nº 19ONE-OFF
Nº 22ONE-OFF
Nº 15CLAIMED
Walk-ins take the chair between bookings, and the first name in the book goes first. Walk-ins are flash from the wall only. Custom work starts with a request.
Claim a sheetThe roster
One standard across five hands.
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 sketch straight onto the skin as much as on paper, because the shape of the shoulder sets where the pattern runs.
@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
From the first message to the last wash, the same five steps apply at each chair in the room. You will know what happens at each one.
The stencil goes on, the last look before it becomes permanent.
- 01
The request
Send the idea through the booking form, with the artist, placement, size and references. It goes straight into the studio book rather than a DM thread that gets buried.
- 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
A loud wall over a 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
The autoclave cycles are logged and spore-tested on schedule, and the log is kept on the counter so you can ask to see it.
Registered, on paper
The studio has council skin-penetration registration and each artist has their own licence. You will find them framed on the wall by the counter.
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.
Pick your artist and the piece, then describe the idea and give your dates. The request arrives laid out the way your artist needs it, so you get a real answer rather than 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.
