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This is just how we do things.

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We built this studio to do it right. Not just the services, but everything around it. How we treat people, what we put our name behind, how we show up when it's not convenient. Here's what that looks like for us.

tattoos for everyone.

PWYC Flash Tattoos

1,500+
people served through PWYC since we started the program in 2024

Walk in. Pick a flash design. Pay what you've got. We don't ask questions and we don't need a reason. Whatever you can bring, we're glad you came. ◡̈

Every PWYC tattoo gets the same care, the same setup, and the same artist as everything else we do.

We stay pretty busy, so call ahead to check wait times before you come in.

Pass it on if you can

If you're in a position to pay a little more, you can. It goes toward keeping everything running, including the things that make this studio different from most.

Areola tattoos.
Free, always.

Every month we hold appointments for areola tattoos at no cost. For anyone coming through top surgery, mastectomy, breast reconstruction, or gender-affirming care. If this is the last piece of something long and hard, we want to be the ones who help you finish it.

We keep these limited so they get the time they deserve. Reach out and we'll figure it out together.

We've been with Gifting Joy since Alexa Baltazar started it in 2022. She built it to get care packages into the hands of patients undergoing bone marrow transplants and other hard treatments. The kind of small, specific comfort that matters more than most people realize until they need it.

Spreading Comfort: Gifting Joy

Carolina abortion fund

We carry necessities through the Carolina Abortion Fund's Care Kits in the Carolinas initiative. That means reproductive health supplies are stocked in the studio at all times.

Emergency contraceptives, menstrual products, safer sex supplies, hygiene essentials, and informational resources.

Come in and take what you need. No appointment, forms, or questions. Ever.

Access to reproductive healthcare is community care, and this is one way we show up for ours.

American Civil Liberties Union

In November 2024 we held an event that turned into one of the best days this studio has ever had. Four hundred people came through the doors. We tattooed 80 of them over 13 hours straight. Everything we made went directly to the ACLU.

We've kept supporting them since. They fight for everyone, across every issue, and that's something we'll always stand behind.

This industry deserves better. We're working on it.

There's no defined path into tattooing or piercing in North Carolina. Pay $300 and you can start. No training, no standards, nothing that protects the person in the chair or the artist holding the needle.

We've been pushing to change that for a while now, talking to legislators, showing up in the press, doing the slow unglamorous work of trying to make something better. We've built this studio with no roadmap and plenty of critics, and that's exactly why we care about this. We want it to be easier for the next person who cares, however they got here.

This isn't extra for us. It's just part of running a studio we're actually proud of.
We're glad you found us.

xo, the inkvictus team
okay, love you, bye.