Ink'stone Tattoo Studio
Third-floor studio in Aberdeen Square, open daily in the afternoons. A quieter, mall-based alternative to a storefront shop, doing custom pieces and smaller fine-line work for a mostly local Richmond clientele.
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Steveston Tattoo Co.
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Steveston
About Steveston Tattoo Co.
Steveston Village shop with four resident artists covering traditional American, Japanese, realism and neotraditional work. Custom design is the default rather than flash off the wall, and consultations are part of the process.
Custom work means a consultation first and a wait afterwards, and anyone expecting to walk in and point at a sheet on the wall has the wrong model in mind. You describe what you want, a design gets drawn for you, and the result is actually yours rather than a copy of somebody else's. That takes longer. It is also the reason to do it that way.
Choose by style rather than by proximity, particularly for a first piece. Traditional American, Japanese, realism and neotraditional are genuinely different disciplines, and an artist who is excellent at one is not automatically the right person for another. Look at portfolios before you look at a calendar, and be honest with yourself about whether the work you are drawn to matches the work being done in front of you.
Chatham Street runs a block back from the Steveston waterfront, in the part of the village where the shops thin out and the residential streets begin. Steveston has quietly become a reasonable place for this category, which suits a village that has always had a working, slightly weathered character under the tourist paint. You can walk down to the harbour on a break, which is not something anyone says about a tattoo appointment in most of Metro Vancouver. Deposits and waiting lists are normal across the trade, so budget for both, and bring reference images and an open mind about placement. That combination gets a better result than a fixed idea copied off a screen.
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In the Steveston neighbourhood of Richmond.
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