Best way to start is with a free consultation. You can book a consultation by giving us a call or you can e-mail your chosen artist with details of your idea. Please include size, placement, black and grey or color and any reference images you may have. Your artist will discuss your ideas with you and provide a quote on time/cost. To book in we require a non-refundable deposit, which will come off of the final cost of your tattoo. We can take deposits in person in shop, via e-transfer or with a credit card over the phone.

If we have availabilty, yes. But it’s best to book an appointment ahead of time.

Yes, we do! Age requirements vary depending on the piercing type. Here’s a breakdown of what you need to know:

• Ears, Facial, Navel, Nose – 16 years old

• Genitals, Nipples, Tongue, Surface, Microdermal – 18 years old

• Navel, Nose, Septum – 14 years old with parental consent

• Helix (cartilage) – 12 years old with parental consent

• Lobes – 4+ years old with parental consent. We’ll pierce children as long as they can ask for the piercing themselves.

*Parental consent is not accepted for piercings that you must be 18+ for.
*A health card or birth certificate is not acceptable as the only form of ID for a minor to sign for themselves.
*Parental consent requires a health card or birth certificate for the minor & government-issued photo ID from the Parent.

No swimming: You cannot submerge your new piercing in any kind of water for at least 3 weeks! This means no pools/lakes/oceans/baths/hot tubs or saunas
DO NOT touch your new piercing with dirty hands! The only time you should touch it is when you are cleaning it!

Navel, Nipple, Eyebrow, Ears, Nose:
Leave your piercing alone for today! Tomorrow morning when you wake up take the piercing aftercare spray and spray onto piercing, let it soak, then take a Q-tip and roll it around the hole of the piercing. If you did not purchase the piercing spray aftercare, then take a cup with some warm to hot water and a pinch of Epsom or Sea Salt. Take a Q-tip or place the cup on the piercing itself and soak for five minutes. You will have a buildup of crusties on the holes and the jewelry- what you are doing is soaking these crusties so they will become soft. Once soft you can take them off.

Do this twice daily for the next two weeks. If you aren’t getting crusties anymore slow down the cleaning process to once a day, then to once every other day. NO alcohol or peroxides! No swimming for three weeks – this will only infect your piercing.

Tongue, Labret/Lip:
Rinse with our H2Ocean mouthwash after everything you eat, drink, smoke, or put into your mouth except water. You can alternate between mouthwash and salt water. There are diseases related to the over-use of mouthwash and since you will be rinsing a lot, salt water works great!

Don’t play with it, move it around, or bite it. Try to eat softer foods. Remember, it is an open wound so there is a chance of rupturing veins. No alcohol for two weeks- this will only make it swell more. No kissing or oral sex for at least three weeks. Do NOT suck hard from any straws this can also cause a rupture.

Swelling usually lasts 4-10 days depending on your body- in the meantime ice water or ice cubes, slushies’, popsicles-anything cold- will make it feel better. If the swelling is severe, you can take Advil or Ibuprofen and this will take the swelling down a bit.

For the outside of your lip, you can soak with salt water. See navel instructions.

Genitals:
At the end of your shower lather up soap and warm water (more water than soap) and place on jewelry. Rotate jewelry through, then rinse, rotating the jewelry through again. Do this every day. Urination after cleaning is best as you are sterile to your own body fluids. This can help heal your piercing (But please no golden showers from your mate until after it’s fully healed.) Do NOT use the piercing until after is it healed, you will know! Any other person’s body fluids are bad for your new piercing and will only infect. This includes semen, saliva and vaginal fluids.

Surface:
Soak with Q-tip and saline solution or piercing aftercare spray twice daily for two weeks to clean the crusties off. Soak and then take crusties off. Do not shift or move jewelry.

If you have any problems or questions please call us @ 902-405-4009 Ext 1 for Halifax, Ext 2 for Bedford

Remove bandage in 12-18 hours. If given transparent bandage: remove bandage in 3-5 days (unless otherwise specified by your artist).

Wash tattoo with warm water and soap. You will have a sticky or slimy layer on top of the tattoo; the object of washing it is to get this layer off. Wash it well, don’t be afraid. Some people will soak the tattoo for a few minutes in hot water. This will bring the sticky layer to the top and it will be easier to wash. This is the only time you are able to soak the tattoo. Rinse, pat dry, let air dry for one day, then apply a THIN layer of non-scented/natural lotion (H&H Tattoo Butter, Aveeno, Vaseline Intensive Care) anything that is natural will work. When applying lotion massage it right into the tattoo; if there is any left on the top of the tattoo either massage it again or take some off. Apply 2-4 times a day. When it feels dry or tight just apply more, but not TOO MUCH.

Do not soak your tattoo; this means no hot tubs, saunas, swimming or soaking of any kind until you are done flaking, and your skin feels back to normal again. Wash your tattoo twice daily with a mild unscented soap, rinse and pat dry. This can be done in the shower, wash last then dry first. Please take a shower every day and if you don’t shower, don’t come here.

You will flake like a mild sunburn. There should be no scabbing but if there is, then DON’T pick it. This is an itchy stage so don’t scratch it either. Use lotion for about two weeks. Then you can slow down the amount you apply once you end your flaking stage.

How to remove transparent bandage: Lift a corner of the film and stretch it horizontally along the skin surface to avoid breaking the adhesive bond. Continue stretching the edge of the shield towards the center. When both sides of the shield are partially removed, grab both sides at the same time and stretch them horizontally and parallel to the skin until the entire shield lifts up. In case the film is particularly resistant, you can use some warm water to aid removing the adhesive from the skin.
This bandage is a transparent adhesive shield made of waterproof polyurethane, permeable to skin perspiration, and hypoallergenic acrylic glue. The particular waterproof structure of the film allows the perspiration of the tattooed skin.
In rare cases some allergic reactions may occur. Please contact your artist right away if any reactions do occur.

If you have any problems or questions, please call or email your artist for further advice.
902-405-4009 Ext 1 for Halifax, Ext 2 for Bedford

We use barrier control- this means everything we may come in contact with during the tattoo and piercing process is covered. We have a separate sterilization area specifically designed for the least amount of cross contamination possible. We will gladly guide you through our process because we feel that our clients should know – so don’t be afraid to ask.
Our goal is to make this process as safe and comfortable as possible, for both us and our clients.

Our sterilizer is biologically tested by an outside lab every 2 weeks. An indicator strip is dated and put into each cycle, this ensures that the autoclave is working properly and safely. Results are posted at the front of the shop. ALL NEEDLES ARE BRAND NEW.