John's, Laura Casey reopened her shop, Lady Lo's Custom Tattoos, in March. ![]() Noemie says it's mostly new clients who are coming through her studio right now, though other artists are processing a backlog of requests. (Brent Smith) Who wants a pandemic tattoo? ![]() Tattoo by Brent Smith of Fox Runner Tattoo. In her experience, summer is always prime tattoo time, but she thinks there's something's different about this June. "If I kept my books open, I think I would be booked up to next year," says Émy Noemie, co-owner of Pls Hurt Me, another Edmonton shop. In any other year, he wouldn't plan any longer than three months in advance he's currently booked through December. There, owner Brent Smith is getting so many requests that he's changed his usual booking system to accommodate them. In Edmonton, where a month-long lockdown lifted at the beginning of June, Aberdeen Hill, co-founder of Pansy Poke Collective, says he's seeing more demand than ever.įox Runner Tattoo is just a few blocks from Pansy Poke's Whyte Avenue HQ. To meet the anticipated demand, she intends to hire two additional tattoo artists for her shop, upping the usual four booths to six.Īnd while she waits for reopening - and the boom - to finally hit, other tattoo artists around the country are already experiencing a rush of business. "It just shows me that it's time to make a move, and you know, expand," she says. Like other studios in the area, Toronto Tattoohaus has been locked down since November 2020. Her bookings are high and the Tattoohaus social media accounts have only kept growing throughout the pandemic year. But when things reopen, she says that all signs point to an industry upswing. To sustain Tattoohaus over a record-breaking lockdown, Doucette drew on her personal emergency fund and relied on government rent subsidies. She could have filled even more pages in her planner, but that would be tempting fate, she explains you never know if another wave could be coming. I'm a little nervous," says Doucette, who's already booked for two months solid.
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