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A full-colour half sleeve tattooed at Inkfam: an eye emerging from blue lilies and washes of pink, orange and teal on a black background

No flash on the wall. Everything drawn from scratch.

Custom tattooing and piercing on South Emerson Avenue, Indianapolis. Bring in an idea and one of the artists draws it for you before a needle comes out.

4.8 from 421 Google reviews · (317) 783-1470 · 5135 S Emerson Ave, Indianapolis
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What happens here

It starts with a drawing that's only yours.

There is no flash rack in this shop. Every tattoo starts as a conversation: what you want, where it goes, how it will sit on the body. Then the artist draws it for you. That drawing is part of the work. It isn't billed on top.

Two things run under one roof: long custom tattoo sessions, black and grey through to full colour, and a piercing side. Some of it is booked out weeks ahead. Some of it walks in on a Saturday evening.

★★★★★ · Google review

From the moment I walked in the door my artist Sean made me feel welcome and at ease.

Chris Miller

Why it's called a gallery

The paintings over the stations are ours too.

Look at the wall above the tool chest: an eclipse over water, a lioness in pink roses, a bare tree splitting into red. Canvases the artists painted and signed, hung over the booth where the tattooing happens. That's the gallery half of the name.

Black-and-grey realism tattoo of a Ghostface mask wrapped in smoke, on a lower leg Ghostface, lower legBlack-and-grey realism An artist's booth inside Inkfam: a black tool chest below a wall hung with original paintings and the name SEAN spelled out in Batman letters Over the stationCanvases the artists painted, signed Bright red lilies tattooed across a shoulder and upper arm Lilies, shoulderColour, no black outline Black-and-grey realism half sleeve of a lion with two cubs and a cross, on an upper arm Lion and cubs, half sleeveBlack-and-grey realism A pink neon sign reading Inkfam Forever, mounted on a white marble tile wall inside the shop The sign on the wallInkfam Forever, in neon Ink caps laid out in a long row of colour on a wrapped workstation, beside paper cups of black and purple wash The station, set upCaps laid out before a session

Healed work, fresh work, and the room you'd be sitting in.

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From the reviews
I started using Shadow for my portraits 16 years ago and I've been using him since.

Michael Bowman★★★★★ · Google review

Our first session was an amazing process, during which he attentively listened to me and began crafting my skin story.

Jennifer Miller

Me and my husband and my son went here for my son's first tattoo and 18th birthday… we went during Shadow's toys for tats promotion and got to contribute to an amazing cause.

Krista Parmer

Believe it til you achieve it- I'm on some positive Shit til my last day

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Hours

Tuesday through Saturday, 11 in the morning until 9 at night.

Today Tue – Sat · 11:00 AM – 9:00 PMClosed Sunday and Monday Full week →
Address 5135 S Emerson Ave # NIndianapolis, IN 46237 Directions →
Phone (317) 783-1470Credit, debit and contactless tap to pay · Wheelchair accessible Call →
Come see us

Sit down with an artist and start the drawing.

Call and we'll tell you who's in, what they're working on, and what they have open.

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