The Year in Review

Well inkers, we’re drawing very close to the end of the year! It’s been a massive year in the studio for us, we’ve done so much and we have so much more we want to do!

When the year started, we took on a new shop-manager and a head-artist, began body-piercing, and added new artists to the team, and that was all before the year had really even begun! After that, we really got stuck into it.

Once our team were all on the ground and running together, we started planning our year.

The first thing we did, was with our new head-artist Kris Barnas, who decided he wanted to raise some money for charity. So he attempted a Guinness World Record! Kris tattooed for 56.5 hours straight, tackling the previous record of 50-odd hours. We are still awaiting final confirmation on the record from Guiness, but aside of that, we managed to raise a massive amount of money that Kris donated 100% of to canteen for kids with cancer. Canteen are a brilliant Australian organization committed to the assistance of children battling cancer, and we were proud and so happy to be able to help these wonderful people.

Once that was done, it was time to move onto the next challenge; the Australian Tattoo and Body Art Expo. This year we made a small appearance, just Kris and Ben who went in, and we had a ball. We met some amazing tattooers, made new friends, caught up with old friends, and met a stack of new clients who are coming through the studio even now as life-long friends of the shop. We got a chance to suss it out, and work out what we think is the best approach our studio can take to really make the most of the expo. And you can expect to see the results at next year’s expo, because we’re going to be there and better-than-ever!

Then we decided we wanted to throw a flash day, and what better time to do it than Halloween? We had all the guys draw up their spookiest flash, and we ran an open-shop all day, walk-ins galore! We tattooed a stack of our Halloween designs and even ended up making a start on a sleeve or two! It was another great day where we got to have some fun and meet more brilliant clients.

After that, we decided our body-piercing could use a boost. So Ben went about compiling a catalogue of high-end, top-quality body jewellery manufacturers who have approved him to work with their stock. Since then, we have been putting out some killer body-piercings with top-quality unique jewellery every single week, and it only continues to become busier! Next year is going to be huge for our body-piercing, we want to give everyone in Fremantle the opportunity to purchase and be pierced with the best jewellery you will find in town with an experienced and educated professional.

And now here we are! The guys are all in, we already have some exciting guest-artists lined up to work with us throughout the year, our body-piercing is taking off, and the tattooing only continues to get better and better. If you thought this year was good, just wait to see what we have in store for 2016, we’ve got big plans Fremantle! We’d love for you to join the ride and watch them come into fruition.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoy yourselves over the silly season, we’ll be seeing you all next year!

Til then, inkers, Happy New Year!
-The Modern Ink Team.