Tattoo Styles & Piercings
Watercolor
A watercolor tattoo is a bright, vivid marking made up of a number of subtle color gradients and techniques that create a more gradual color fade-out.
Trash Polka
Trash Polka is an innovative tattooing style that employs a diverse range of elements and components to create mixed-media pieces.
Traditional
Traditional tattoos are a style of tattooing using bold lines and vivid colors. They often represent patriotism and loyalty.
New School
New school tattoos are some of the most easily recognizable tattoos of today. Known for an experimental design style, new school tattoos are centered around the use of vivid color schemes, bold line-work, and zany subject matter.
Micro Tattoo
Micro tattoos are tiny designs that are usually less than an inch in size. They can be as small as a quarter of an inch! That's smaller than a dime! Because they are so small, they can be placed in a variety of locations on the body.
Lettering
Lettering tattoos focus on the beauty of the letter and words themselves rather than a particular scene or image. With a lettering tattoo, the focus of the art comes down to the particular script or font used, as well as the meaning of the words.
Dotwork
Dotwork tattoos and simplistic, minimalist tattoos are all the rage right now, and for good reason. These incredibly detailed tattoos show off the talent of these amazing tattoo artists, worn proudly as permanent art on the uniquely beautiful canvas of skin.
Black and Grey
Black and Grey Realism tattoos are impressive photo-realistic, three-dimensional tattoos created using varying shades of black ink.
Realism Portrait
Realism tattoos can depict anything, with the only requirement being that the tattoo looks as close to photorealistic as possible. Portraits of famous people, loved ones, nature, and meaningful objects are all common choices for realistic tattoos.
Ornamental
An ornamental tattoo is a type of tattoo that is designed to be decorative rather than functional. Historically, they were often used to mark status or affiliation, but today they are more commonly seen as body art. Ornamental tattoos come in various styles, from delicate and intricate to bold and graphic
Neo Traditional
Neo Traditional is a relatively new tattoo style that takes its cues from the Traditional Americana style. Neo Trad tattoos are characterized by their bold lines, vibrant colors, and overall polish.
Tribal - Polynesian
Historically there was no writing in Polynesian culture so the Polynesian's used tattoo art that was full of distinctive signs to express their identity and personality. Tattoos would indicate status in a hierarchical society as well as sexual maturity, genealogy and ones rank within the society.
Geometric
Geometric tattoos draw their simplicity from the use of common shapes – lines, circles squares, triangles.
Blackwork - Blackout
Blackwork tattoos are characterised by heavy black lines and solid areas of black ink countered with areas of skin to create abstract patterns and designs.
Biomechanical
Biomechanical tattoos are a posterity of biomechanical art, a modern type of art, which delineates the human anatomy as mechanical parts.
Minimalist - Fineline
Minimalist tattoos don't necessarily have to be small; designs of this style are more driven by simple, clean lines and the heavy use of negative space.
Piercings
