About Freshly Inked
Freshly Inked is a tattoo discovery and booking platform. We surface the actual portfolios of vetted artists across the United States and internationally, organized by style, placement, city, and subject. Every piece on the platform links back to the artist who made it.
The Problem We're Solving
Tattoo discovery is broken in two specific ways. Instagram wasn't built for tattoos: the feed buries work behind algorithm whims, search is brutal, and the booking handoff to DMs is a graveyard for inquiries. Pinterest is a better visual discovery tool but it strips credit, doesn't link to the artist who made the work, and treats your inspiration board as content for its own machine learning models.
The result for anyone trying to actually book a tattoo: you save 40 images, you can't remember which artist made which, half of them turn out to be other people's flash you found on Pinterest, and the studios you do find make you fill out three different inquiry forms across three different platforms.
What Freshly Does Differently
Every tattoo on Freshly Inked is attributed to the artist who made it, with a direct line to book a session with them. Not a DM, not a flash sheet, not a Pinterest pin. A real portfolio piece by a real artist with a real way to inquire.
We organize the platform around how people actually search for tattoos. You can browse by style (black & gray realism, fine line, neo-traditional, Japanese traditional, blackwork, and a dozen more), by placement (forearm, sleeve, chest, back piece), by city, or by subject (dragon, koi, rose, samurai, the obvious ones). Every combination has its own dedicated page so the work you're looking for is one click away.
Booking happens directly between you and the artist. Freshly handles the introduction and the credit; the studio handles the scheduling, the deposit, and the appointment. We're not trying to be the middleman that takes a cut. We're trying to be the layer that makes it easy to find the right person.
What We Don't Do
We don't claim to be the only place artists should be. Most of the artists on the platform also have Instagram, their own websites, and waiting lists at their studios. We're an additional layer of discovery, not a replacement for the relationships artists already have with their clients.
We don't run paid promotion that pushes one artist over another. Search results are determined by relevance and platform activity, not by who pays us.
We don't sell client data. Period. The inquiries that come through the platform go to the artist they were sent to.
Get In Touch
For general questions, press, or partnerships: support@freshlyinkedmag.com
If you're an artist who wants to be on the platform, the application is here: Apply as an artist. We onboard new artists weekly.
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