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Consultation appointments and other queries (please first see Services for more info, if inquiring about a tattoo): esther@butterfatstudios.com

🌿New projects on the website now! 🌿These are

🌿New projects on the website now! 🌿These are NOT first-come first-served, so take your time getting a clear photo of the body part, and please answer the questions on the project page. I’ll be going through emails later this week and getting back to everyone by next week. I will also be accepting a small handful of black background sleeves (cover up options available!) based on vintage textiles and prints I’ve collected. Leaning away from juicy color romantic florals /lace for now, but I’m still interested in black and grey botanicals and formal patterns and prints. I’ll make a separate post soon of some inspirations. This is all I’m taking at this time, no custom requests🌿Thanks for your interest, I look forward to seeing old clients and new in the studio soon!🌿

White details on Brandon! This is my second collab

White details on Brandon! This is my second collab with @lucyarbeit, who is leaving Chicago soon to go adventuring. Many thanks for the good clean fun, and also to our excellent collab clients- definitely highlight moments for me✨

Fancy cuff today🌿

Fancy cuff today🌿

First session on Janie 🌸🕊

First session on Janie 🌸🕊

Some color progress on delightful Taaj 🌿

Some color progress on delightful Taaj 🌿

Color session on this black sleeve. Thank you Jasm

Color session on this black sleeve. Thank you Jasmine, sorry about the elbow

This is how it felt, when I finally got to introdu

This is how it felt, when I finally got to introduce two old friends- both of whom I had not been able to hug for over a year. I got to see their beautiful smiles, and hear their unmuffled laughs, and it was like flowers in the sky and light in my veins. Only once we were all vaccinated was I able to see them, and to bring them together last month. It made me so so happy, and I will never forget the year of hugs I lost to Covid. Sadly, it is not done yet, and many people paid much more dearly than lost hugs🌿 When I was a kid, I lived next door to an old man with a very bent leg, who walked very slowly with a cane. He told me about one brilliant summer when he was a little boy, when he suddenly got sick. He was wild and running one day, and the next his body had twisted and he could never run or swim again. He had contracted polio, a highly contagious virus that has plagued humans for millennia, but went epidemic in the early 1950’s. 🌿🌿I was vaccinated for polio, and it is extremely likely that you were too, which is why almost nobody gets it anymore. Vaccination was made mandatory IN EVERY SINGLE STATE IN THE US, and that is why nobody gets it anymore. 🌿🌿Please do your part to protect yourself and all the rest of us, and turn THIS epidemic into history 🌿I was invited to make this piece by the Design Museum of Chicago and Protect Chicago to promote and encourage vaccination for Covid-19. I was thrilled to be asked, for many reasons- personally, there is literally no way for me to do my work without sitting VERY CLOSE to my clients. It is an intimate breath bubble, and even masked, my risk of exposure to the virus is far higher than most jobs. I literally cannot work from a safe distance, and I have no other sufficient means of supporting myself and maintaining my shop.🌿 I am now requiring proof of vaccination in advance of appointment date via email🌿 Thank you for reading, and please check out the other commissioned artworks at Chicago.gov/city/en/sites/Covid19-vaccine/home/artists.html #projectchicago #vaxchination

One more session to go on this🌿 I love these st

One more session to go on this🌿 I love these stitchy textures

Yesterday on Amy, who is brave and strong 🌿

Yesterday on Amy, who is brave and strong 🌿

EDIT THIS IS TAKEN- BUT! I am considering drawing

EDIT THIS IS TAKEN- BUT! I am considering drawing a series of stitching ladies as flash based on this idea, would anyone be interested ?? 🌿🌿🌿Hello Chicago! I have availability on Saturday and would like to do something with this vintage illustration- email esther@butterfatstudios.com to schedule, please include your availability and a photo of the area 🌿swipe for possible placements and rough size. Single session, 600-750 depending on size and details. Ornamentation can be made to look like embroidery, and will be designed to fit you✨

Healed and fancy, just before a touch up. Thank y

Healed and fancy, just before a touch up. Thank you Liz 🌿

Beautiful series of statements to support clients

Beautiful series of statements to support clients by @_warmearthworm_ Too often I hear clients relate stories about how they received a tattoo they are not satisfied with- “I didn’t love the drawing, but I decided not to say anything about it, and hope it would come out ok” 🌿CLIENTS - the process of making the tattoo belongs to you too, not just the tattoo at the end. The experience should feel pleasant and kind and unrushed. If you state needs or concerns that are refused or ignored, you can call it and leave. You might lose a deposit, but at least you won’t forever wear a badge of the day someone wanted to charge you for ignoring your needs. There’s already enough of that in your life, tattoo day should be different. 🌿TATTOOERS- please remember that tattoo shops are set up to support OUR needs, and you must be aware of all the ways that a client can be anxious/unassertive in YOUR space. Check in frequently, listen to what they are saying, read the signs they don’t speak, ask questions, help them explain their concerns, share information, and don’t push forward if there is any hesitation from the client. In the end it is far better to miss the income, then it is for someone to be walking around telling people you let them down. They tell me. Sometimes I’m the one that fixes the tattoo you shouldn’t have done.

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