Wear something that provides easy access to the area being tattooed while allowing for whatever level of coverage you prefer/are comfortable with. When you book your first appointment with us, we provide a detailed appointment-prep PDF, where the first page details suggestions on what to wear for possible tattoo placements. You might be lying down for a while, so dress comfy. Additionally, we highly recommend wearing black or something that you won't be upset if it ends up with a few permanent ink splatters. Tyler is quite meticulous, but there is always a risk for ink splatter during tattooing. Unsurprisingly, tattoo ink doesn't come out of fabric.

You are welcome to bring one support person along with you to your tattoo. We do have a limit of one support person per client in effort to limit distractions for your artist and due to our limited seating. We are okay with multiple support people travel with you to the island if they are just popping in and aren't sticking around for majority of the tattoo. There is a lot to do on the island!

Always follow your medical provider’s orders. If you have any of the following conditions/prescriptions, please reach out to your doctor to plan the timeline of you next tattoo. The following medications can push out ink and result in very poor healing: corticosteroids anticoagulants (blood thinners) Accutane immunosuppressants chemotherapy Conditions that can increase duration of and potentially complicate healing: diabetes pregnancy/lactation skin conditions e.g. eczema and psoriasis autoimmune conditions clotting disorders cardiovascular disease cancer When you fill out our Tattoo Consent Form, it is imperative to be honest with us about your medical history. Your information is kept confidential and secure.

There are a number of numbing creams on the market, but even the better creams, we typically recommend against using them. When a numbing cream is used for a tattoo, the tattoo is very likely to heal poorly, resulting in patchy spots and imperfections in the design. The lidocaine itself isn't what inherently causes problems for the tattooing. The real problem with lidocaine cream is the cream. Even when wiped away as much as possible, skin creams leave a residue that trap moisture, heat, sweat, plasma, and bacteria under the skin throughout and after the tattooing process. This ultimately leads to more ink being pulled out of the skin as the tattoo heals. You'll find in our aftercare booklet that we'll give you, caring for your healing tattoo is a delicate balance of maintaining softness/hydration to the skin AND allowing it to have enough oxygen.With that being said, we have lidocaine spray that we can use upon request, free of charge. Lidocaine spray can be super helpful to take the edge off and/or help power through the last bit of a session. Lidocaine spray doesn't impair tattoo healing it's carried in water and alcohol, which evaporate and then are effectively out of the way. The lidocaine spray must be applied when the skin is already opened (i.e. freshly tattooed) because it works by being directly applied to the capillaries that oxygenate that area of skin. Because of this, it often even has more numbing power than the cream. Typically, the best time to spray is after lining and before shading or throughout shading.