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Merry Tattmas!

Summer mugginess is hitting Auckland, Michael Bublé is playing in malls, decorations are making their way to store fronts—I think it’s...

How to Save for Your Tattoo

Tattoos and personal finance are two things I’m rather passionate about—which is probably a good thing, because at the end of the day...

Be Unique! Tattoo etiquette and copying designs.

An unfortinate issue which happens far too often sparked discussion with us here at the studio regarding tracing, copying and being...

Rach say WHAAAT?!

So lets tell everyone the news, whats been happening, why its happening and ask some questions! If you've been tattooed by us or have...

10 Star Wars Tattoos

With the release of SOLO hitting cinemas recently and may out the door, we thought we'd take a look back on some of our favourite Star...

Can't let go of LEGO!

As you probably know if you've been into the studio we ADORE LEGO! But none so more than our in-house Lego master Adam C Artist! He's...

Pregnancy/Injury and Tattoos

This is an expansion on our previous blog, 'You Won't Tattoo Me?' due to an increase in inquiries on this subject. We thought it would be...

1 YEAR PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA

OH SNAP ITS BEEN A YEAR! We've survived a year! One fun, amazing, fun and magical year and we couldn't have done it without you! So like...

Alex's Anime List Volume 1

It's no secret that our Anime tattoo artist Alex Heart is an Anime junkie. So we decided to sit down with her and chat to her about some...

Getting Schwifty with Keith!

The long over due continuation of our wee 'get to know us' interviews! Sadly Keith has been sick this week but I managed to get him to...

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