Your child’s footprint, names in hand-drawn lettering, birth flowers as a bouquet. In a free consultation we introduce you to the Artists who tattoo this kind of work with a feel for detail.
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The real print is the template. You take it on paper with a skin-friendly ink pad or finger paint, ideally in several attempts, because small feet rarely keep still. The print from the birth certificate or the hospital works too, as long as it is photographed sharply. Your Artist transfers the shape at its original size or scales it to your placement, with every toe and crease as it is. The print can stand alone or be set into a larger design, for example with a name, date of birth or a birth flower. If you have several children, the prints can be laid out as a row, with room for more.
Names in hand-drawn lettering are the classic. Your Artist designs the lettering for your placement rather than picking from a font menu, and you check every spelling on the stencil. Birth dates work as numbers, in Roman numerals or as coordinates. Birth flowers are a quiet alternative: each month has its flower, and together they form a bouquet that needs no names and still stands for each person. Star signs for a birthday, initials in a symbol or one animal per family member also come up. What suits you depends on how visible the tattoo should be and whether others should be able to read it.
Yes, if it is planned that way from the start. A floral vine later gets another blossom, a row of footprints another print, a line of names a new line. For this, your Artist leaves space at the placement or chooses a composition that can be added to without changing what is already there. Tell us in the consultation whether more children are planned or whether grandparents, partners or pets should be added later. Then the first design is placed so that it looks complete on its own and still stays open.
Yes, that is common. Either both wear the same design, or two variations that complement each other: she wears the footprints, he wears the names; both wear the child’s birth flower in the same place; or one design in two halves that fit together. Siblings who plan a tattoo together for their parents come to us too. We tattoo from the age of 16, under 18 only with written parental consent. So small children cannot get a tattoo yet, but their prints, drawings or handwriting can become part of your designs. A child’s drawing as a tattoo, taken over line by line, is a deeply personal variation.
Family tattoos range from a small footprint with a name to a floral vine across the whole forearm. What matters is size, number of elements and level of detail. Lettering needs care, flowers in Fineline take less time than in colour, several prints more than one. Your Artist sets the price after the free consultation.
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15 minutes from Cologne. Tattoo and piercing under one roof.
This is where it all began. The first Atelier, right in the centre of Euskirchen.
Mario's Atelier, just behind the market square in Lechenich.
Fineline“I'm so thrilled with the result. The service and the effort you put in is really awesome. This was definitely not my last tattoo from you. Thank you. (Translated from German)”
“Many other tattoo studios turned down my wish for a cover-up with ‘That's not possible.’ […] Asaf created the cover-up over a longer process, took a lot of time for my wishes and comments and kept adjusting the sketch until I was happy. (Translated from German)”
“From the first consultation to the last needle stroke, it was simply perfect. The team is so warm, and visiting the studio now feels like coming home for me. (Translated from German)”
Inner forearm, wrist, chest and shoulder blade are popular. For a vine meant to grow over time, the forearm or calf works well. You will find pain guidelines on the body placement pages.
Yes. Photograph it from above in daylight, ideally without shadows, and send it via the form or WhatsApp. Your Artist takes over the lines just as they are.
A footprint with a name is done in one short session. A vine with several blossoms or a design with a portrait takes longer, often two appointments. Your Artist plans this with you.
Some of our Artists offer payment in instalments, usually via PayPal or Klarna. Whether they do, on what terms and over what period is decided by the Artist, who will tell you in the consultation. The studio is not involved. More on this under Payment in instalments.
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