About Tattooing

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I utilise the old way of hand poking the ink.

Slower, intentional, and gentler than machine tattoo - it is less traumatising for the skin, therefore heals quicker and is less painful.

While being quick for a hand poker, I employ great kindness and empathy in every session to ensure minimal skin damage and pain.

By setting clear intentions as to what you would like to let go of, how you would like the next part of your life to unfold becomes clear.

How deep you wish to go is up to you - just like a simple tattoo experience, or going right in, is your own process.

I use my background as a healer, counsellor, and witch to hold a safe and loving space where transformation can occur. I make my own prayers and blessings and ask permissions from spirits of place before each tattoo.

This is a journey of trust and magic that we go on together in the spirit of healing, kinship and self mastery.

The wounds act as portals - heavy energies discharge. The design is imbued with meaning, but the act of breaking skin with intentional purpose brings cleansing and purification.

Before we continue, I would ask that you read the following info about how I work. I currently work in Brisbane in a studio ONE WEEK per month.

I release these dates in advance. Spots are limited, so if you are wishing to book a Brisbane studio spot, please let me know in the below form and I’ll pop you on the priority notice email list.

Brisbane spots are for ceremonial tattoo, which is an intuitive tattoo with intention setting and blessings. 

The rest of the month I am in my home making art and magic. I offer full day healing/tattoo sessions, details below.

NORTHERN RIVERS ONLY - full day experience.

A talk based therapy session to uncover old limiting stories that are running and beliefs that are holding you back, a physical burning ceremony where we burn away these old beliefs with resins and smudge. 

This is followed by an energy healing for your physical and emotional being.

We can then finish off the day with your tattoo if you would like.

There is also the option without tattoo.

If you would like to come for a private session in the forest of northern rivers please let me know and we can arrange this.

Otherwise, if you’d like a Brisbane ceremonial tattoo in a studio, please let me know.

*If you are a new client who hasn’t had a consult or a booking with me before, please read the below details carefully and only then fill in the below form once you have fully read all information.*

In terms of design:

The design can mean anything we make it mean, it is the tattoo itself that is the healing modality.

If you wish to have a design made for you; I love to do this - you share with me the images and symbols you love and I create something for you based on this in my own style. This will incur a drawing fee of $50.

I will be doing this for the projects that feel resonant to me, I have made a commitment to create an experience that benefits the client on many levels, therefore I engage in the artworks that align for me also.

Alternatively you can choose from my flash. These are designs I’ve already drawn from my heart and love with my whole spirit. For flash options, see the gallery below.

There are certain themes that I don’t tattoo, and this is mainly because I don’t draw these things. These things include:

• Flowers

• Mandalas (I can totally do a cosmic dot version of mandalas in my own style - but they do not feature lines, only a constellation of dots, and I love to do these)

• Chandelier lace work

• Portraits

• Colour

• Feathers

I love to do:

Animals, mushrooms, Kodama forest spirits, cosmic circuitry, animal skulls, runes, Viking markings, shipibo, eyes, insects, moons, patterns, symbols.

I would also ask that you have a look at my Instagram @mila_babayaga and be sure that my style is suitable - anything that I am asked to do will be done in my style.

I’m also happy to consider an art work or drawing that isn’t mine, I only request that if it is work by another artist that you have permission to recreate it, I will happily check it out and figure out if I can achieve it with the hand poke technique.

In terms of placement:

There are certain areas that do not work well for hand poke.

The areas I tattoo are:

| fingers/hands | arms | neck/chest/sternum | face/head | feet/shins/calves | upper back/shoulders | legs

The areas I cannot tattoo are:

| stomach | butt | lower back | ribs

Pricing:

I charge per piece, not per hour, this way you aren’t watching the clock and worrying.

I’m happy to quote on your design before the day, feel free to ask.

Please be mindful of the information you share with me in these emails/forms.

I am here to provide a tattoo experience, which requires presence on the day, but it is not necessary to share personal private details of trauma with me.

If you feel you something is deeply relevant, I invite you to inform me. I am a highly sensitive person - I am not able to process the details of personal trauma every day.

Thank you so much, I look forward to hearing back from you.

With love and ultimate trust,

Mila :)

See below my available flash designs.

It can be an emotional experience, and it can bring profound healing if that is what you wish.