# sigil ## Posts - [How to prepare for your first tattoo (and what to bring)](https://sigil.schedopia.com/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-tattoo/): A good first tattoo starts the day before. Here is how to sleep, eat, dress and plan for your session, from artists who see first-timers every week. - [Tattoo aftercare, day by day: the first four weeks](https://sigil.schedopia.com/tattoo-aftercare-day-by-day/): How you treat a new tattoo in the first month decides how it looks for the next twenty years. Our day-by-day guide to washing, moisturizing and leaving it alone. - [Titanium, gold or steel? Choosing jewelry for a new piercing](https://sigil.schedopia.com/choosing-jewelry-for-a-new-piercing/): The jewelry in a fresh piercing matters more than the piercing itself. What “implant grade” means, why we never use butterfly backs, and when to switch to gold. ## Pages - [Book an Appointment](https://sigil.schedopia.com/book/): Choose a consultation, flash, a session or a piercing, pick your artist and a start time. You’ll get an email confirmation straight away. - [Studio Policies](https://sigil.schedopia.com/policies/): We tattoo and pierce adults 18 and over only. Everyone in the chair must show a valid, government-issued photo ID at every appointment. - [Contact](https://sigil.schedopia.com/contact/): Questions about a design, a piercing or a healing tattoo? Call, email or stop by during studio hours. For custom work, book a free consultation. - [FAQ](https://sigil.schedopia.com/faq/): Everything people ask us about booking, deposits, pain, age, aftercare and touch-ups. - [Journal](https://sigil.schedopia.com/journal/) - [The Studio](https://sigil.schedopia.com/about/): Four artists, one piercer and a converted print shop on the East Side. Serious about the craft, relaxed about everything else. - [Aftercare](https://sigil.schedopia.com/aftercare/): The first month decides how your tattoo or piercing looks for the next twenty years. Keep it clean, leave it alone and call us if anything worries you. - [Portfolio](https://sigil.schedopia.com/portfolio/): A few favorites from the last months, fresh and healed. Every artist keeps a fuller book in the studio; ask to see it at your consultation. - [Our Artists](https://sigil.schedopia.com/artists/): Every artist here has a style they’re known for. - [Prices](https://sigil.schedopia.com/prices/): Consultations, touch-ups on our work and piercing check-ups are free. - [Piercing](https://sigil.schedopia.com/piercing/): Ear, nose and navel piercings by an APP-member piercer, with sterile single-use needles and implant-grade jewelry that heals well. - [Flash](https://sigil.schedopia.com/flash/): Flash is the original tattoo menu: designs drawn by our artists, ready to tattoo at a set price. Pick one, book a slot and walk out with it the same day. - [Custom Tattoos](https://sigil.schedopia.com/tattoos/): From a first fine-line piece to a full sleeve: every custom tattoo here is drawn for you, sized for where it lives and tattooed by an artist who loves that style. - [Home](https://sigil.schedopia.com/): Custom tattoos, flash and professional piercing from four resident artists and an APP-member piercer. - [Sign in](https://sigil.schedopia.com/sign-in/): Use the account you already have on this site. - [My bookings](https://sigil.schedopia.com/my-bookings/): Everything you’ve booked with sigil.schedopia.com, in one place. - [Privacy Policy](https://sigil.schedopia.com/privacy-policy/): sigil.schedopia.com is a tattoo and piercing studio at 1904 Calder Street, Austin, TX 78702. [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)