Guides

Before and after your tattoo

• Choosing a tradition: work rooted in your own heritage

  How the studio decides which tradition a piece is drawn in — the design follows your own heritage, whatever it is — and which motifs are not anyone's to wear.

• Before your tattoo: how to prepare

  What to do in the fortnight, week and morning before a tattoo session — hydration, alcohol, medication, sun, food and what to bring — and when to reschedule.

• What to expect at your first tribal tattoo session

  A step-by-step walkthrough of a first tribal tattoo appointment in Mount Druitt — consultation, freehand design, pain, session length and what to bring.

• Tribal tattoo aftercare: healing solid blackwork

  How to heal large areas of solid black safely — wrapping, washing, moisturising, sun, and what a normal heal looks like week by week for tribal tattoos.