On Saturday, June 18th, starting promptly at 12 noon, the Lighthouse Tattoo Apprentice Corps will be hosting a day where tattoos are completely free.
What’s the catch? Only that we ask that any tattoo performed that day can be done in less than two hours, so more people have the opportunity to get in.
Here’s the particulars: We will begin handing out tickets at 1130. at 1pm and every hour after that, we will pass out more tickets. Tickets will be drawn to see who gets tattooed next. If someone wants a tattoo that will take more than two hours to complete, they will lose their spot and we will draw again (don’t be greedy). We will have contests of skill and strength in order for interested parties to earn more tickets and thus, increase their chances for winning.
A warning: Last year we had a small number of people who complained because they didn’t get tattooed even though they waited for 5 hours. No one is guaranteed to get tattooed at this event. If you don’t like it, don’t come. If you bitch about it online, we will put you on blast on the internet and let them handle you. If we have any more crybabies like last year, we will discontinue the event and we will make sure everyone know who caused it. Don’t be that asshole.
Extra tickets will be awarded to individuals who:
Wear an eye catching costume and wave at passing traffic for at least ten minutes- 5 tickets.
If you have a special talent that can entertain us (singing or play an instrument; magic act or juggling, fire eating/breathing, etc, has to be good, no amateurs) - 5 tickets
You can give your tickets away, so bring your friends that hate tattoos and get them to give you their tickets!
If you pay full price for a piercing, you will receive an additional 5 tickets per piercing
We are a biker-friendly shop, so we will have an impromptu bike show and the winner(s) of the show will be given extra tickets. We have a pro-spec pool table at the shop, so we will probably have some sort of pool tournament to go to the front of the line, so bring your cue sticks! There will be other ways to earn more tickets, we just haven’t figured them out yet!
This will be a party atmosphere, so plan on hanging out for a while and show up with a good attitude, patience is the name of the game here and nobody likes a sore loser. Also, it’s very important that your design is as print-ready as possible, these young artists will not be helping anyone pick out fonts for lettering or drawing involved pieces, so know what you want and have it on your phone by the time you get here!
If you are not sure how long your tattoo will take and want to see if it would be good, please fee free to swing by the shop during our regular business hours anytime before the day of the event and we will just tell you if it will work or not!
We are covering the cost of supplies and spending our time to do something cool for you, please bring cash for tipping your artist, as it will be expected in this case, though the amount is up to you.
We also like to use events like this to raise money for good causes, we don’t have the cause figured out yet, but if you have been fortunate enough to maybe help someone out this year, we ask that you consider contributing to our cause once it is determined for this event.
Lastly, what we learned from the event last year is that we will need more help than we have in order to pull this off. We are asking for volunteers to help out during this event. Any help would be greatly appreciated.