Halloween Flash Sale!

Its Halloween in Salem and we have been busy busy busy at the shop!  To celebrate the “most wonderful time of the year” (lol!) we are running a special for small Halloween flash designs October 17th- 31st.  $75 per tattoo – first come first serve – walk-ins only.  Here are a few of the dozens of designs our artists have tattooed this week:

Also a reminder that our shop Halloween party will be held on Halloween night, October 31st from 7pm-12pm.  Come on by, meet our artists and enter our costume contest for a chance to win a $300 Witch City Ink gift certificate!

Halloween Season is over and We Survived!!

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Halloween season is always a crazy time of year here in Salem, MA and this year was no exception!  The insanity began the first week of October and kept us entertained and swamped the rest of the month.

The crowd the  first weekend of Halloween season!

The crowd the first weekend of Halloween season!

We truly had a blast tattooing fun Salem and Halloween related tattoos on visiting tourists and also really appreciated the patience exhibited by our regular clients who ended up having to deal with unexpected crowds and the crazy parking situation all month long.

We love wandering through town and seeing all the amazing decorations for Halloween and the Fall.
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Jaesun started the month off by adding a fun ceramic jack-o-lantern to his station to add some holiday spirit

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Here are a few fun tattoos Jae got to do this year for visitors who wanted to forever memorialize their trip to Salem:

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Steve got to do some fun halloween pieces, too, including this cool Hocus Pocus portrait:

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Needless to say, it was a fun month, and we were so happy to see our annual visitors, but we are happy to slow down and enjoy the fall in this small New England city by the water!  With the crazy crowds gone for the year, we are excited to get some locals in who have been waiting patiently to get tattooed!

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New Work by Natan: Bats, Cars, Birds

With the summer months upon us, we’ve seen an influx of interesting projects coming our way. At a custom shop, it’s always rewarding to be approached with a piece that is not only technically feasible, but artistically challenging and engaging. Natan’s been hard at work on a number of such pieces, including the following:

Bats!

Although Natan is generally only working on larger tattoos, he often revels in whipping out fully-realized and highly-rendered one-sitting pieces. These bats he completed on a local barista find a delicate balance between Tibetan-inspired flourishes of line-work and a vivid, painterly color-theory.

Car (In Progress)

We seem to have had a number of vintage custom car fanatics down at the shop lately, such as this woman, who began this tattoo rendition of her car the other week. Old vintage cars always shine as tattoos, with broad flowing lines and bold blocks of color and Natan served justice to this one with elegance.

Foo Dog (In Progress)

Known for his strong and colorful style, Natan is commonly commissioned for large Japanese work, such as this foo dog half-sleeve. This recently completed second session saw the introduction of a dynamic and complex color-theory to the solid foundation of line-work already in place. Keep a look-out for more pictures of this piece in the upcoming weeks!

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After many sessions and much hard work, Natan completed this full back-piece on local shop-friend, Mike. An on-going project for quite some time now, both Mike and Natan were proud to finally get in the last bits of color and wrap up this piece. When people ask Mike how many tattoos he has he says one…

Natan is available for appointments at Witch City Ink Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and over at Lightwave Tattoos (Route 1, Saugus) on Thursdays and Fridays. Send us an email, give us a call, or just stop on by the shop to start planning for your custom tattoo with Natan today

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Article on Witch City Ink and Salem Tattoos

The Salem Gazette recently published an article on the general climate of tattoo culture in the area featuring Witch City Ink. Each Halloween we experience a sudden influx of tourism and an accompanying variety of small walk-in tattoos. Check out the online publication of the Gazette article and read more on tattooing during the Salem Halloween season. Click on the following image or link to be directed to the article:

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Coming out to visit Salem for the Halloween season? Make sure to book out your tattoo appointment in advance! Although we do take walk-ins on a first-come, first-serve basis, we tend to get heavily booked through October. To schedule your appointment, consult, or to inquire about a tattoo idea, just give us a call in the shop or stop on by.

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Halloween in Salem!

Did you know that Halloween in Salem, for all intents and purposes, spans the entire month of October? Beginning yesterday, we've witnessed the arrival of swarms and legions of halloween-loving people arrive into town. Along with the masses comes all of the annual local performers, entertainers, and vendors who line the streets in anticipation of the crowds.

If you're planning on coming into town to check out what all the hub-bubs about, make sure to stop on by our shop, take a look around, and get some tattoos! Keep your eyeballs peeled in the next couple of weeks as we may feature some custom halloween flash up for grabs and will

be gearing up for all of the halloween festivities. See you all here!

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If you know when you're coming in and what you'd like to get, make sure to schedule your time in advance, as the closer we get to halloween, the more we'll be booked up!

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