ASKED& ANSWERED

One of your own tattoos, brought to life. Your photograph — untouched, pixel for pixel — becomes a living object on the screen: light travels across the ink, the skin breathes, and the piece answers whoever is looking at it. On a phone, tilting the handset tilts the work in your hand. It is not a video and it is not AI — it is hand-written code, built for that one tattoo alone. It exists nowhere else, at any price.

No. Every piece is handcrafted in written code, individually, line by line. Nothing is generated; everything is measured. A piece takes roughly as long to build as the tattoo itself took to make — counted in hours of work, not clicks. That is the point. Generated work has no failed attempts. Ours do, and we keep the records.

We choose it together. The strongest candidates are shot straight on, whole piece in frame, with the original stencil still in existence. Send two or three and I will tell you honestly which will make the strongest piece. One exceptional piece beats five good ones.

Two things: the highest-resolution photographs of the finished tattoo you have — the original files, never Instagram downloads — and ten minutes of your time. We provide a private upload link so nothing gets compressed on the way to us. If you still have your original drawing, even better — it opens doors. But the photograph is enough.

That is fine. A back, a thigh, a chest — big, front-on pieces are the strongest candidates there are. The photograph is taken the way the work is meant to be seen, and the piece is built to honour exactly that view. Light and depth do the rest.

We would ask them. The design is yours, but it is on their body, and most people are proud to have their piece shown properly. If they would rather not, choose another piece. It is not worth a difficult conversation.

Never. The photograph is sacred. The reveal ends on your photograph, pixel for pixel — the exact image you were proud of the day you posted it. We verify this with a test, not a promise.

Yes. Once your site is live, you can offer your clients the performed version of their own tattoo — a product you sell, at a price you set. Your work, twice.

No. Nothing starts from a template. Before a single design decision is made, our engine reads your entire presence — your work, your reviews, your following, your style — and the site is built from what you have actually made: your colour, your typography, your pace. Two INDELEBLE sites will never look alike, because two artists never do.

The complete site: your work at full resolution in the order you would choose, enquiry capture so every interested client becomes a contact you own, search optimisation — including being found by AI assistants, which is where searches are going — a private archive of your images, and the piece. Music, composed for your work, if you want it.

Two to three weeks from the point we have everything we need from you. The piece itself takes about a week of hand-building; the site is built alongside it. You get a real timeline before we start, and you see the work as it happens.

It is designed on a phone before it is designed anywhere else, because that is where your clients are standing when they decide.

English and Spanish as standard, with a switch on the site. Others on request — your clients decide your languages, not us.

Then you already know whether it is working. If it loads slowly, looks like it was made in 2014, and shows your work at thumbnail size, that is not neutral — it tells everyone who lands on it something you do not mean to say. Put it into the audit box on the recut page and we will send you a full report on where it stands. Free, no obligation, whether you work with us or not.

You do not need to be. You send your work and your words. We do the rest.

Yes. Adding new pieces and changing your text is straightforward and we will show you how. If you would rather we did it, ask.

That is built in from the start rather than added later — the structure, the descriptions, the local search signals, and being readable by AI assistants when someone asks one for a tattooist in your city. It is not magic and it is not instant. But it works, and Instagram gives you none of it.

Honestly: no — and nobody can. Meta's export gives you usernames only, never contact details. Anyone promising to recover your audience as a contactable list is lying to you. What we build instead works forward: from the day your site is live, every enquiry becomes a contact you own, in a database nobody can take away.

You do. The domain is yours. The content is yours. The enquiries are yours. That is the entire argument.

Every build is priced individually, because every artist and every piece is different — tell us who you are and we will give you a real number, not a menu. For most artists it is less than you will spend on ink and cartridges this year, for something that works for you permanently.

The domain and hosting, which are small and yearly. We tell you exactly what they are before you commit, and you can pay them directly rather than through us if you would rather. There is no subscription and nothing that stops working if you stop paying us.

No. Part at the start, the rest when it is finished and you are happy with it.

You see it before it goes live and we change what needs changing. We would rather spend an extra week getting it right than put something out you are not proud of. We are not going to put our name at the bottom of something you do not like either.

Send your handle and the piece you are proudest of, on WhatsApp or through the enquiry form. A conversation, not a pitch.

The studio is in Costa Rica. The work is worldwide — every build happens remotely, in your language, on your timeline.

Your work remains yours, always. Every piece carries your name, your handle, your city. Nothing of yours is ever shown on INDELEBLE's own site without your written permission, and you can withdraw it at any time.

Because the most permanent art form in the world is documented on the least permanent medium there is — and because you respect craft, which means you can recognise it. We would rather be everything to one trade than something to every trade.