Tattoo
A custom piece starts with a conversation about you — then the design is drawn for the body it is going on in our Tampere studio, not adapted from a sheet.
The commission
Four stages, and you approve each one before the next begins.
Enquiry
Send the subject, the placement, a rough size and anything you already love. One honest paragraph is more useful than a perfect brief.
Design
The studio draws to your anatomy — how the composition wraps, stretches and ages matters more than how it looks flat on a screen.
Session
Stencil positioned and approved, sterile single-use needles opened in front of you, breaks whenever your skin needs one.
Healing
Written aftercare before you leave, a check-in while it closes, and touch-ups by the same artist who laid the line.
Checklist
The small things that make a session shorter, cleaner and easier on you.
- 01Eat a proper meal and hydrate the day before — it genuinely changes how you take it
- 02Avoid alcohol for 24 hours; it thins blood and pushes pigment out with the plasma
- 03Wear something that gives the placement away without you having to fully undress
- 04Bring reference, but expect the design to move away from them as it finds your body
- 05Shave the night before, not the morning of — fresh razor burn is not tattoo skin
- 06Tell the artist about medications, skin conditions or allergies before the stencil goes on
On size, pain and time
Pain is mostly a placement question. Bone and thin skin read stronger than muscle-heavy areas, and almost everyone adapts within the first few minutes once the body stops treating the machine as a threat.
Session length is limited by your skin, not the clock. Once a region is overworked it swells, holds less pigment and takes longer to heal — so a piece that could be rushed in one sitting is often better split in two.
Sizing is a trade-off with detail. Work that has to read from a distance at forty needs more room than the same idea drawn for a photo taken today.
Next step
Send the idea and the placement. The Tampere studio replies with a design direction and an honest estimate before anything is booked.
Submitting a request is not a confirmed appointment.