This pint-size tattoo parlour was designed to calm your nerves

Mixing futuristic vibes with nods to bygone eras, Tiny Zaps’s new Brooklyn tattoo parlour feels contemporary but acquainted. The monochromatic inexperienced, 500-square-foot area in Williamsburg is way from a conventional tattoo store. The previous bodega is now a hangout spot, the place anybody can take pleasure in a tattoo ritual. Past specialising in micro tattoos, the studio provides a shiny, serene ambiance the place little comforts and entertaining reassurances information tiny tattoo seekers via the method.

‘We did not need this to really feel like a traditional tattoo parlour,’ architect Justin Huxol of HUXHUX Design Inc., a New York-based design agency, tells Wallpaper*. ‘In so most of the tattoo parlours within the metropolis you are simply bombarded with black-and-white schemes and it’s actually heavy. That is for people who find themselves perhaps slightly bit nervous about getting their first tattoo, so we wished to make it extra enjoyable.’

When Tiny Zaps opened its first location in Manhattan’s Nolita neighbourhood in 2024, it shortly gained traction. For the second location, Tiny Zaps co-founders Sam Kelly and Bruno Levy tapped HUXHUX to assist the model develop. Huxol, the design agency founder, and his group wished to remain true to Tiny Zaps’s aesthetic DNA. To enhance the monochromatic blue Manhattan parlour, they zeroed in on inexperienced because the Brooklyn studio’s defining color.

Drenched within the gentle inexperienced paint Celery Ice by Benjamin Moore and outfitted with matching speckled flooring, the parlour glows. The area itself is ‘tattooed’ due to customized wooden panels (stained inexperienced, after all) engraved with choices from Tiny Zaps’s tattoo catalog, together with a pigeon, martini and ‘I <3 New York’ design. Reflective steel surfaces make the monochrome idea really feel richer and permit for straightforward cleansing.

The studio’s tattoo assortment is obtainable to browse exterior by way of a touch-screen, rat-shaped kiosk (one of many animal tattoo choices!) and inside on the same arcade-game-style kiosk. As shoppers watch for a fast tattoo session, they’ll peruse the vinyl report bar. Whether or not Blondie or Jim Croce eases the nerves, prospects can placed on no matter music calls to them in the event that they so please. Close by, company may also take heed to customized audio tales by way of a rotary telephone that vary from informational to amusing — with titles like ‘Tattoo braveness,’ ‘Tattoo historical past’ and ‘Name Mother.’

Within the again, one of many three olive inexperienced cushioned tattoo stations is half-hidden by a glass block wall — and that’s the place the celebration occurs. Teams can e book the realm, often called the Celebration Zaps Room, for a collective session. It’s geared up with changeable colored lighting for setting the temper. Classic TVs, sourced from HiTech Electronics and revamped by HUXHUX, add a cool, retro contact and have dwell digicam footage of the zone.