Roger
A new beginning tattooed over an old fight: a coloured Ganesha, two months after he cleared cancer. A new beginning for him. A new beginning for us too.
You walk in as one person. You walk out as another.
Shayona · Navi Mumbai · 16 years in the needle
Who we are
We become part of your journey.
You become part of ours.
A tattoo here isn't decoration. It's a marker: a milestone, a new start, the end of something, the beginning of something else.
We are fluid. Like the music. We don't stay on one thing. A small name or a full-back project. Colour, realism, geometry, religious work, bio-organic, dark art.
Whatever you come for, it gets made for you, and only you.
The work
Every piece, drawn once.
No repeats.
Rooms
01Small & fine-line
02Portraits & realism
03Geometry & mandala
04Colour & bio-organic
05Religious & cultural
06Cover-ups & fix-ups
The two hands
Shayona is for everyone.
18 to 80.
Your first tiny tattoo, or a piece we build over years. This is the craft, the service, the studio.
The other hand
And then there's
the dark work.
Temple architecture turned inward. Symmetry, stone, geometry. The calm of a temple, and the dark that lives underneath it, brought to the surface so it can be accepted.
The process
The becoming,
step by step.
- 01
You come in with an idea, or references you love. We're not mind-readers; references point the way.
- 02
We find the design together. The final one lives past 17, 18, 20 drafts.
- 03
Deposit. Appointment booked.
- 04
The day. Well-rested, well-hydrated. Sanitise, shave, stencil, let it dry.
- 05
The session. Breaks when you need them. You feel it around hour seven. That's where who you are shows up.
- 06
Healing. Give it a month before you judge it. Come back, we see it heal, we fix what needs fixing.
- 07
Enjoy it for the rest of your life. See you on the next one.
A tattoo is sacred. Two people, one closed room, hours at a time. You're marking the body. You're inflicting a little pain on purpose. For a lot of people, that's how they heal.
A big piece takes you inward. Six months of sessions, and you come out a new person: in how you take pain, how you handle delay, how you push through hour twelve.
This is meditation. This is therapy.
This is the art of becoming.
“Give me a piece of your soul. I'll give you a piece of mine.”
after Jayfreestyle
Voices
Yash
Met on the road, tattooed in a hostel room, parted ways. Four years later he came back, with his now-wife. For three years running, he flies me out to keep building one big piece. Every year.
Abhishek
The Ravana. Scheduled across his days so it landed on my birthday. I've tattooed on my birthday nearly every year for 16 years. He brought a birthday gift.
Ways to work with us
Custom tattoos
Any style, drawn for one person.
Cover-ups & fix-ups
Got something elsewhere that needs work? We cover, we fix. (We don't do laser removal.)
Travel tattoo
Can't come to us, or want your dream project somewhere that means something? Pick the destination. We'll come to you.
Corporate & group sessions
Teams, brands, a shared mark. Opportunity is everywhere.
Navi Mumbai's studio for the work you'll carry for life. Not a showroom. A room that feels like home, where we can open up and make something personal.