Custom Tattoo Design
Original artwork drawn for your body and nobody else's — from a first small piece to a full bodysuit.
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Tattoos & Piercings for Detroit
Inkslingers is a Detroit story. The shop opened in the late eighties, grew up alongside the city's music and car culture, and has spent over three decades putting work on people from every corner of the metro area — including a fair number whose names you'd recognize. Gratiot Avenue has run from downtown Detroit to this front door the whole time.
Popular in Detroit
Where most people start.
Black & Grey Tattoos
Smooth greywash, honest blacks, and the kind of contrast that still reads twenty years from now.
Photorealism Tattoos
Skin texture, reflected light and real depth — realism that survives the jump from photo to flesh.
Ear Lobe Piercings
Single, double or stacked lobes done with a needle and implant-grade jewelry — never a piercing gun.
Cartilage Piercings
Helix, forward helix, flat, rook and snug — placed to your anatomy, not to a diagram.
Nostril Piercings
Placed to your nose's own crease and curve — studs, hoops and high nostrils.
Detroit questions
Asked by people in your area.
Is Inkslingers still a Detroit tattoo shop?
The studio is at 50185 Gratiot Ave in Chesterfield Township — the same road, about forty minutes northeast of downtown. Same ownership, same artists, same standards it's had since 1989. A large share of our clients still come up from the city.
Which celebrities have you tattooed?
Work from this studio has been worn by Kid Rock, Britney Spears, Eminem and the Dixie Chicks among others. We don't trade on it and we don't discuss anyone's work without their say-so — but it's part of the shop's history and we're not going to pretend otherwise.
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Serving Detroit seven days a week.
Free consultations, walk-ins welcome, and a phone call is the fastest way to get a real answer about your idea. Call (586) 949-6200.