Deposit Policy:

 

Due to the frequency of cancellations, reschedules, and our upfront labor in the industry we will always ask for a non-refundable $60 deposit unless specific terms are discussed with the artist. We accept cash, card, and venmo.

As artists our time is valuable, but that hardly seems to be the case these days. We are seen as a service for you and only you, however we serve a wide variety of people every day. We are also people and this is our income. When you no call no show, are late, cancel, or reschedule last minute that directly impacts our finances. We do not charge for artwork, but we will be strict with deposits. 

 

Reasons why your deposit would be forfeit in full:

 

• No call no showing your appointment. 

• Canceling within 48 hours prior to your appointment. No matter what the circumstances are you also only get 3 reschedules within that 48 hour timeframe before an artist has the right to no longer work with you. 

• If you show up 30+ minutes late with no warning / reason. 

• If you arrive drunk, without valid identification, on drugs, aggressive, in an altered or negative state of mind, injured, or even barefoot. Essentially anything that would warrant us not being comfortable or it’s legally an issue tattooing you. 

• If you come in and want a completely different tattoo that was not discussed or mentioned beforehand. This also applies to drastic design or location changes.

 

We understand life happens, if you notify us on a day off via voicemail, email, or direct messages we absolutely will not hold that against you as long as it's out of the 48 hour window, however any of the above reasons will not be tolerated. Rescheduling outside of the 48 hour window is always acceptable, but please still give us as much notice as possible if you cannot make your appointment. For within 48 hours, day of, or last minute cancellations again we understand life happens, however at that point we can still pull your deposit. That will be up to the artist in terms of determining if they will take your deposit or not. Sacred Sword Tattoo will always back their decision. 

Design Policy:

 

Designs will never be emailed or revealed early. 

By booking an appointment with an artist you either have felt confident in their work by seeing it online, a brief online discussion via email or Instagram, or an in person consultation. At the end of the day we are artists and if we go through with booking your tattoo based off verbal description as well as photo references we feel comfortable giving you the best version of the tattoo you want. 

By putting down a deposit you agree with those terms. The day of your tattoo you will see linework / a stencil for your tattoo. We will rarely fully render your tattoo for multiple reasons.

First, being the trust and communication when booking with us.

Second, we simply do not have time to fully render, shade, and color the final product for 5-20 tattoos a week when we tattoo all day as well as draw all morning and night already. We also have lives outside of the shop.

Lastly, we understand if we show you a fully colored or shaded design you may feel less inclined to speak up when it comes to changes you may want to make. That seems pushy and unfair to you. It’s incredibly important you are a part of the process when deciding what is going on your body forever. That does include minimal changes, we will never be upset about a few small design alterations. We will also never be upset about changing locations as long as it does not force a complete design change.