Nick is a nationally award-winning realism tattoo artist with 19 years of tattooing and 12 years of professional piercing experience as a shop owner.

 

He specializes in high-detail black-and-gray work accented with touches of vivid color, a signature style that has taken him to Ink Master (Seasons 2 & 3), Ink Master: Redemption (Seasons 1 & 4), and a win on the Ink Master Cupid's Ink special series.

 

Outside the studio, he's also a photographer, videographer, documentary filmmaker, and Chinese language student.

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Safety and Health Come First!

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Nick is a nutritionist specializing in longevity protocols, always hunting down proven evidence-based ways to help people live healthier, more energetic lives. His own results put him in the worlds top 50 www.rejuvenationolympics.com a global health leaderboard.

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All of this carries over to his tattooing. Nick is trained in surgical-grade aseptic technique, including Glo Germ cross-contamination training, which uses a UV tracer to reveal exactly where invisible contamination spreads so it never reaches the client.

 

His standard is simple: he will never use anything on a client that he wouldn't use on himself.

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Tattoo ink isn't FDA-approved, so it's your artist's job to know exactly what's permanently going into your body. Third-party testing of many popular ink brands has found harmful chemicals and carcinogens that never appear on the label, and some cheaper needles have even been found to contain lead.

 

Nick has done the research, so every tattoo gets third-party-tested inks, lead-free needles, sterile medical-grade supplies, and proper wound bandaging, never Saran Wrap. Your art should last a lifetime without costing you your health.