Rosa Treviño
Fine line, botanical, blackwork
Started the shop in 2016. Draws everything by hand first and won’t go smaller than the line can hold.
- Wait
- Next book, January
- Rate
- $180 an hour
- Won’t do
- Script under 1 inch tall
Book ten months out? No.
A waitlist for a year? A deposit on a date you will forget? A booking app with forty settings? Nobody asked for this. Custom work books one quarter at a time, four days a year, so your piece gets drawn properly before you sit. When the book is full, it is full.
JanOpens Jan 5, 9 amFor Jan to Mar
Feb
Mar
AprOpens Apr 6For Apr to Jun
May
Jun
JulOpens Jul 6For Jul to Sep
Aug
Sep
OctOpened Oct 1Full in 27 hours
NovFull
DecFull, closed Dec 24 to Jan 4
Booking day: the form goes live at 9 amBooked solidFlash Friday runs every week, all year
October’s book opened Thursday at 9. Full by lunch on Friday. Missed it? Put your name on the January list. The text goes out the minute the form goes live, same minute for everybody on it.
Can’t wait? Here is what you do instead. Come in on a Friday. Jace draws that flash the same week, and it is real work, priced on the sheet.
What the consult is for. Fifteen minutes, here or on a video call. You tell me what it means to you, where it goes and how big your nerve is. I tell you what will still read in twenty years. Nobody draws anything until there’s a deposit.
Pick the chair whose work you already like
Each of us books our own chair. Don’t know which? Tell me what you want. I send you to the right person, even when it isn’t me.
Jace Whitlow
American traditional, flash
Runs Flash Friday and draws the sheet every week. Bold lines, four colours, built to look right from across a parking lot.
- Wait
- Two Fridays a month open for custom
- Rate
- $160 an hour
- Won’t do
- Copies of someone else’s piece
Mina Park
Illustrative colour, cover-ups
Covers the tattoo you regret with one you won’t. Bring a photo of the old one in daylight, not a filter.
- Wait
- Next book, January
- Rate
- $170 an hour
- Won’t do
- Cover-ups over fresh ink under a year
Quote by DM? Read this table
What does a photo of your forearm from the couch tell me? Size? Skin? Placement? Nothing. So no quotes over Instagram. Here are the real numbers. Your consult turns them into one.
| Shop minimumAnything small, including one word | $120 |
|---|---|
| Custom work, by the hourRate depends on the artist | $160 to $180 |
| Half dayThree hours in the chair | $480 |
| Full daySix hours, lunch on us. The sixth hour is the one we’re named for. | $900 |
| Flash FridayWalk in, price on the sheet, no deposit | $90 to $220 |
| Touch-upWithin 90 days of your last session | Free |
Paying on the day
Cash or card at the counter, settled at the end of each session. Tipping is up to you. Nobody here keeps score.
Gloves on, phone off. Use these
Can I answer a phone mid-line? With gloves on? With somebody’s ribs under my wrist? No. So the site has four pages. A form, a deposit, a line, a text. Each does one thing. That is the whole system.
PlacementOuter left forearm
SizeAbout 6 x 3 inches
Who you want
RosaJaceMinaWhoever fits
References, up to three
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Consult requests with placement, size and reference photos, sent to the right artist instead of a shared inbox.
Peony, outer left forearm
Tue, Jan 19, 11 amHalf day
Estimate$510
Deposit today$100.00
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The $100 comes off your last session. Move once with 48 hours’ notice and it moves with you.
Deposits taken online with the rules written next to the button, so nobody is surprised at the counter.
3rdin line for Jace. About 50 minutes. Go get a coffee, we’ll text you.
- 1Dagger and rosein chair
- 2Swallow, 3 innext
- 3Moth, 3 in (you)~3:30
- 4Heart and banner~4:05
A text-me-when-it’s-my-turn line for Flash Friday, so the waiting room isn’t twenty people deep.
Day 3. It’s going to look shiny and a bit cloudy. That’s normal. Thin layer of unscented lotion, twice a day, clean hands.Fri 10:02 am
it’s itchy, can i scratch itFri 10:09 am
No. Slap it gently if you have to. Send us a photo in daylight if anything looks red past the edges.Fri 10:11 am
Day 7 check-in comes Tuesday. Touch-ups are free until Jan 7.Fri 10:11 am
Aftercare by text, timed to the day you’re on, with a way to send a photo when something looks wrong.
Your half of the tattoo
Tattoo is half mine, half yours. My half takes an afternoon. Yours takes a month, and yours decides how it looks at your wedding.
- Day 1
Leave the wrap on
Four hours under the film we put on. Then wash with warm water and unscented soap, pat dry with paper towel.
- Day 3
Thin lotion, twice
Unscented, a thin layer. Your cousin’s coconut oil stays in the kitchen.
- Day 7
It peels. Let it.
Flakes of colour come off. That’s dead skin, not your tattoo. Don’t pick and don’t scratch.
- Day 14
Pools and sun, still no
No swimming, no tanning bed, no lake. Loose sleeves outside. Kansas sun fades red first.
- Day 30
Send a photo
Daylight, no filter. If a line healed thin we bring you back free within 90 days.
Six answers that are always no
Will a parent’s signature do? Is a neck a good first spot? Will two beers calm your nerves? No, no and no. Most of these protect you. One or two protect us.
- Anyone under 18Photo ID at the counter, no exceptions, parent or not.
- A first tattoo on hands, neck or faceGet a few somewhere else first. Come back in a year and we’ll talk.
- Copying another artist’s custom pieceBring it as a reference and we’ll draw you your own.
- Walk-ins, except FridaysTuesday to Thursday the chairs are booked. Friday from noon, the door’s open.
- Tattooing anyone who’s been drinkingYou bleed more, you sit worse and you sign forms you won’t remember.
- Hate symbols, in any fontWe’ll show you the door and keep the deposit.
Sixth Hour, upstairs
Upstairs on East Douglas
1000 block of E Douglas Ave, upstairs, Wichita, KS 67202
Green door, up one flight. There’s no elevator, so tell us when you book and we’ll meet you at the ground-floor consult room. Park on the street or behind on English Street after 5.
| Tue to Thu | 11 am to 7 pm, booked only |
|---|---|
| Friday | Noon to 8 pm, flash walk-ins |
| Saturday | 10 am to 6 pm, booked only |
| Sun and Mon | Closed, we’re drawing |