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Tattoo styles, sessions and studio rates

Small single-session pieces are quoted as a flat price up front. Multi-session large work is billed for needle time only, never for stencil setup or breaks.

Tattoo services and rates

Flash & first visits

Price: $150

shop minimum

One-off flash & consultations

Browse the resident artists' flat-priced flash books: original designs drawn to be tattooed once and then retired. Or book a free 20-minute consultation to talk through reference, test the size in the mirror and leave with an exact estimate.

What the appointment includes

  • A flash design nobody else will wear
  • Placement and size tested in the mirror
  • A free consultation of 20 minutes

Worth knowing: Consultations are free; every tattoo, however small, carries the $150 shop minimum.

Consultations 20 minutes Best for a first piece, or for an idea that has never been drawn at the size it has to be worn.

A painted tattooist's case standing open: a machine, needle bars and ink bottles held in fitted compartments.

Black ink only

Price: $180

per hour

Blackwork, ornamental & dotwork

Limbs twist and taper rather than lying flat like paper, so geometric and ornamental pieces combine crisp thermal stencils with freehand marker drafting directly on the skin. The result is clean symmetry around elbows, knees, collarbones and spines.

What the appointment includes

  • Stencil and freehand drafting on the skin
  • Symmetry checked with the body at rest
  • Aftercare written down before you leave

Worth knowing: Every custom piece includes one free healed touch-up within six months if it is needed.

Sessions of 2 to 5 hours Best for mandalas, stippling and ornamental pieces that have to frame a joint.

Bold and timeless

Price: from $250

flat quote per piece

Traditional & neo-traditional

Rooted in classic American, European and Japanese-inspired tattooing: bold structural outlines, smooth peppered whip shading and high-saturation vegan pigments, in colour or black and grey, that keep their punch through decades of real life.

What the appointment includes

  • Artwork drawn for this piece only
  • The stencil placed and approved on the skin
  • Lightfast vegan colour or black and grey

Worth knowing: A piece too large for one session is quoted as large-scale work at the consultation, not discovered halfway through.

90–180 minutes Best for a bold single piece that should still read clearly from across a room.

Sleeves and backs

Price: $180

per hour · full day $1,100

Custom large-scale sessions

Cohesive large compositions planned across two to six sessions. It starts with an in-person mapping consultation that traces the curve of the arm, leg or back, then custom linework, with shading and colour spaced three to four weeks apart so the skin can settle between passes.

What the appointment includes

  • An in-person mapping consultation
  • Artwork drawn for this body only
  • Billing for needle time, not breaks
  • A breathable medical wrap to go home in

Worth knowing: A full-day session runs 6 to 7 hours at a flat $1,100; shorter sessions are billed at the hourly rate.

Two to six sessions Best for a sleeve, a back, a thigh or a chest piece.

Over old work

Price: $190

per hour

Cover-ups & reworks

A good cover-up uses organic texture, dark focal values and directional flow, usually two to three times the size of the original, so the old lines disappear completely rather than peeking through. A faded sentimental piece can be revived instead of buried.

What the appointment includes

  • An honest look at the old ink density
  • A drawn option for covering or reworking it
  • A written quote before anything starts

Worth knowing: The studio does not carry out laser removal, but will say honestly when a session or two of lightening elsewhere would give a cleaner cover.

Consultation required first Best for older work that has blurred, or for a piece that no longer reads the way it was meant to.

Delicate work

Price: from $220

flat quote per piece

Fine-line, botanical & woodcut

Delicate does not have to mean fragile. Crisp single-needle and tight-grouping detail is set at the proper skin depth with breathing room between strokes, so botanical stems, scientific illustration and fine lettering heal soft and legible for years without blowing out.

What the appointment includes

  • Line spacing planned for how skin ages
  • The stencil placed and approved before the first line
  • Aftercare written down before you leave

Worth knowing: If a design is too small to hold its detail, the artist will suggest a slightly larger size before quoting.

60–150 minutes Best for small, detailed pieces on the wrist, ribs, collarbone or forearm.

Before the needle

From first message to first line

  1. Send the brief

    Say what the piece is, where it sits on the body and roughly how big it should be. Reference images help but are never required, and a free 20-minute consultation is there for anyone who would rather talk it through.

  2. Read the reply

    The studio answers by email within two business days, names the artist and style that fit, states the rate and says how many sessions the piece needs.

  3. Hold the date

    A deposit of $80 to $150 holds the date and is credited in full to the final session. Nothing earlier in the sequence holds a chair.

When a style is not the right one

An artist who can see the placement will say when a design is too small to hold its detail, or when another style would age better on that spot, and suggest the change before quoting. Nothing is started on a plan that will not heal well, and nothing is charged for work that was not done.

Ironline Tattoo Studio tattoos adults aged eighteen and over only, with valid government photo ID checked on the day, and will not tattoo anyone under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The studio does not carry out laser removal, permanent cosmetics or piercing.

Talk to the studio

Not sure which style it is?

Describe the idea in a message, or book the free 20-minute consultation, and the studio names the artist, the style and the rate before any deposit is taken.

Book a consultation Send a message Email the studio

The column

A short note when a rate or new flash changes

Holiday hours, new flash, an artist joining or leaving, a rate that moves. Two or three notes a year and nothing else.

The privacy notice explains what happens to the address.

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What the price includes
The price includes 5 hours of extra work to change the colours, the font family and the font size, add or remove pictures and paragraphs, and add visual effects and other tweaks. The design is 100% finished before anything is paid. Guaranteed.