A tattoo is not booked like a haircut. The piece has to be drawn, the size and the placement agreed, and the time estimated before anyone knows what it costs. So on this design a visitor books a thirty-minute consultation with the artist who will do the work, free of charge, and may send up to three reference pictures with it. The artist then turns the consultation into a session from the staff diary, with the hours quoted, and the studio records the deposit when it is paid at the counter.
Every price says how it is worked out. One hourly rate for every artist, counted to the half hour, with a shop minimum; flash at a fixed price by size; each piercing with its jewelry range from titanium to gold. Custom work is quoted in writing after the consultation, never as a 'from' price. The deposit rules are printed case by case: it moves once with forty-eight hours' notice, it comes back if the studio cancels, and it is never called non-refundable.
And the law is quoted, not paraphrased. New York makes it a crime to tattoo anyone under eighteen, even with a parent's consent, and the site says so with the section number. New York City licenses each tattoo artist, not the studio, and requires the license line in a real studio's ads; because these artists are invented, the site explains that rule instead of printing a number. Eleven pages quote what tattoo shops commonly advertise — 'painless tattoos', 'FDA-approved inks', 'a hospital-grade sterile studio' — and answer each with the rule and its source.