Please fill out a contact form using the ‘Enquire’ button on my homepage or site header. This form will ask you all the basic things I need to know to begin the process of designing something for you.

After you submit your enquiry, we can arrange a time for a free consultation* so that we can meet in person, discuss your ideas, and see if we’re a good fit for each other.

If you decide to go ahead with the tattoo, we will then talk about a timeline for the booking, and I will ask you to pay a non-refundable deposit to lock everything in.

I will always endeavour to get back to you as promptly as possible, but this can sometimes take me up to a week. I do not take bookings or enquiries via social media - enquiry form/emails and WhatsApp only please 🤎

*Small flash designs posted on my Instagram stories do not require a consultation, however if you would still like to have one that is of course all good 😊

*We can also have an initial consultation via video chat if suitable.

Yes, please!

Deposits are standard practice in our industry and simply act as a security measure to ensure you are committed to going ahead with the tattoo booking. It also helps to cover the time I spend at home drawing your design.

The deposit amount is deducted from the final price of the tattoo. It is not an additional fee on top.

Most tattoos require a deposit of $100. Larger tattoos require a deposit of between $200-300.

Deposits are non-refundable. Please do not pay one unless you’re 100% sure you want to get tattooed.

If you cancel your appointment, or do not show up for your booking at all, then your deposit will be voided and you will need to pay another to rebook.

Cash is always preferred, but I do also accept PayID, Beem, and tap-to-pay card payments on my phone via Stripe.

For deposit payments I usually send you my PayID.

If you need to reschedule, that’s totally fine and understandable, but please give me at least sufficient notice so that we can transfer the deposit to another date.

I use Acuity Scheduling which sends you multiple email reminders and allows you to reschedule your appointment yourself if you’re doing so inside the valid timeframe.

If you reschedule late, your deposit will unfortunately be voided. This is because I cannot fill that space on short notice.

If you cancel your appointment or do not show up for your booking at all, then your deposit will be forfeited and you will need to pay another to rebook.

Of course! I especially love custom requests for magick sigils and other occult symbology, or things to do with your own ancestry.

I am always happy to chat about your ideas, but there will definitely be instances where my style simply isn’t suited to the job. I’ll always be honest and refer you to another artist if I am not confident that I can execute your idea competently.

I tattoo by hand, which is usually referred to as handpoking. I choose to use this method because I like how tactile and meticulous it is, and because it is more closely related to the ways our ancestors applied markings to their bodies historically.

I use sterile single-use professional tattoo needles that I attach to a disposable stabiliser to hold it securely in place. All needles are opened right before the tattoo, and immediately disposed of in a clinical sharps container at the end of the tattoo session.

Everything in my tattoo set up is disposable. This means every item on my bench or on the tattoo bed is single-use and is disposed of in clinical waste bins after your appointment. We clean all surfaces with hospital grade disinfectant.

Please rest assured that with me having over a decade of experience working in tattoo studios, I am very well versed in good and safe cross-contamination practices.

Handpoking is different to machine work, mostly in regards to the skin trauma. There's no way I can move my hand as fast as a machine can move a needle, so there's simply far fewer puncture points being created. This is why handpoked tattooing takes longer to apply, but tend to heal faster.

This is visually the most evident in the way the linework looks while the tattoo is fresh. On the day of the tattoo, handpoked tattoos can look textured and ‘fluffy’, while machine tattoos look solid and crisp. Machine tattoos usually look their best on the day they are done, while handpoked tattoos get better with age as they settle into the skin.

My personal preference is to not overwork the skin or oversaturate the area by trying to make the tattoo look super black and solid when you leave - I prefer to leave the tattoo looking textured and trust the process of allowing the linework to fill itself in over time.

After a month or two, if any parts of the tattoo need a little touch up, I will gladly do it for you free of charge 🌞

Please do not use numbing cream for your tattoo session. Numbing creams are topical products, they are not intended to be applied subcutaneously, which is what will happen once we start tattooing.

Sadly there are now many horror stories of people suffering severe adverse reactions to numbing creams being used during tattooing; ranging from allergies to third degree burns and hospitalisation. Please don't risk it.

Hand poking is generally much more comfortable than machine tattooing so I’m confident that you will not need the numbing cream anyway. In the unlikely event that you’re struggling, I’ll happily spray the area with Bactine which will alleviate some of discomfort on the already-broken skin.

Feel free to reach out to me if you're anxious about the potential pain and want to discuss this further 🌼

Please head to my Preparation & Aftercare page for a comprehensive rundown on this.

18+ only! No exceptions, sorry.

It’s important to me that I maintain my personal values and integrity through my work. For this reason I will not appropriate concepts or imagery from cultures that neither you nor I have any connection to.

I will gladly create and apply markings for you from your own heritage (in fact I love doing this) and I am happy to share my own ancestry through pieces of my flash, however I do not feel it is my place to take and use significant cultural elements from other marginalised and colonised peoples.

If I know of a tattoo artist suited to what you are looking for, I will gladly refer you to them 😊

Batek is the Ilokano word for our ancestors’ precolonial tattooing practice. You might hear people from other ‘Filipino’ ethnic groups call it “batok” or “tatak”.

Filipinos, like all colonised indigenous peoples around the world, have lost much of our ancestral knowledge and practices through the brutality of colonialism. Many things that happened in the past still have lasting and ongoing effects on us today. What was once a thriving common practice, has been badly fractured due to Spanish invasion. However there are still people alive today who are considered mambabatoks (experts) of our tattooing traditions.

Most people are aware of Apo Whang-Od of the Kalinga people, and her grandnieces, whom she has passed the knowledge of her craft down to. Lane Wilcken has dedicated decades of his life researching and publishing several incredibly comprehensive books regarding our ancestors tattooing traditions. I feel it’s safe to say that all diasporic Filipinos practicing our markings today use Manong Lane’s books as a major part of our source material.

That being said, there is much that we do not know and possibly never will. It is important to understand that as a worldwide community, we are using our best educated guesses and assumptions, in good faith, when it comes to interpreting and reimagining traditional batek motifs and meanings. We are each doing our own version of what we believe makes sense based on ancestral information, intuition, and artistic expression.

It’s also important to acknowledge that ‘Filipinos’ are not one homogenous culture - we are people of many separate and varied ethnic groups with differing beliefs, languages, and art styles. As diasporic people we are very much in the infancy stage of a modern revival.

Knowing that we have lost so much of our indigenous knowledge around this practice is painful and complicated. People have validly strong and varied feelings on this subject. We are trying our best to piece back together what we know in our bones, but it’s a long road that we’re really nowhere near finished walking. For this reason and others, I do not feel that it is right for me to adorn non-Filipino folks with custom versions of our ancestral markings when we have not yet finished fully reimbracing them ourselves.

Not everything is meant for everyone, especially when it comes to culture and identity, and that is OK - we do not need to possess something in order to respect or revere it.

Thank you in advance for respecting this boundary 🤎