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Terms & Conditions
How we work together: booking, deposits, aftercare, and what each of us is responsible for.
Last updated August 2026
These terms cover this website and the tattoo work we do at Icon Tattoo, 155 Main St, Northport, NY 11768. Booking with us means you have read them.
Who we tattoo
You must be 18 or older, and you will need a government-issued photo ID at your appointment. New York law makes tattooing anyone under 18 a crime, with no exception for parental consent, so please do not ask.
We can decline a project or end a session. We do that rarely, and the reasons are the ones you would expect: someone arrives drunk or high, someone will not follow health and safety instructions, someone treats an artist badly, or the work asked for is something we cannot do well or will not do at all. Nobody in this building has to explain themselves further than that.
Consultations and booking
A consultation is free and there is no obligation on either side. Booking starts with the booking form, and we answer within three business days.
Your artist will confirm the price and any deposit before your appointment is on the calendar. Nothing is held until that is settled.
Deposits
A deposit holds your date and pays for the time your artist spends designing. That design time is real work and it happens before you sit down, which is why the deposit is not refundable.
It carries over to your tattoo. If you need to move your appointment, tell us with enough notice and the deposit moves with you. If you do not show up, or you cancel at the last minute, or you keep pushing the date, the deposit stays with the artist and a new one starts the clock again.
Pricing
We price by the piece or by the day, not by the hour. Making permanent art should not have a stopwatch next to it.
The number your artist gives you covers the work discussed. If you change the design, grow the scope, or add to it on the day, the price changes with it and your artist will tell you before continuing.
Sessions
Anything bigger than a few hours happens over more than one sitting. Each session is its own appointment on its own date, and the number your artist gave you covers the piece, not a single day.
Large work gets booked one session at a time. Between sessions the tattoo has to heal, and your artist will tell you how long to wait. Rushing that part costs you the result.
The day of your appointment
Come rested and fed, and please do not drink the night before. Bring your ID.
Show up on time. If you arrive late we may have to shorten the session or reschedule it, because the artist after you booked their day too.
Health
Tell your artist before the session if any of this applies to you:
- You are pregnant or nursing
- You take blood thinners or anything else that affects clotting or healing
- You have diabetes, a heart condition, epilepsy, or a weakened immune system
- You have a skin condition, you scar badly, or there are moles on the area
- You are allergic to latex, pigments, soaps, or adhesives
- The skin there is sunburned, cut, or recently healed
- You have reacted badly to a tattoo before
Almost none of this is a no. Most of it just changes how we plan the day. What we cannot do is work around something we were never told, and you are the only person who has that information.
If you wake up sick on the day, tell us instead of pushing through. We will move you.
Your tattoo
A tattoo is permanent. Read what you are getting, spelling included, before we start.
Skin is not paper. Healing depends on your body, your habits, and your aftercare, and no artist can promise an exact result. What we can promise is our full attention and our best work.
Follow the aftercare instructions. Most problems with a healed tattoo come from what happened in the two weeks after, not from what happened in the chair.
Aftercare products
Your artist will tell you what to use and what to stay away from. That is an opinion built on thousands of healed tattoos, not a sale: we do not sell aftercare products and we do not stand behind any manufacturer.
Touch-ups
Ask your artist. Touch-ups are handled case by case, because a piece that healed badly from a bad sunburn and a piece that needs one more pass are not the same conversation. Deliberate damage, picking, and sun are on you.
If something is wrong
Tell us as soon as you notice, and tell us directly. A healing problem is easier to fix in the first week than in the third month, and an artist who hears about it from you can usually do something. An artist who hears about it from a review cannot.
Photographs
We photograph our work. Those photos may appear on this site, on Instagram, or in our portfolios, and they are how a studio like ours gets found.
If you would rather we did not, say so before your session and we will not. It costs you nothing and it will not change how we treat you.
The artwork
The design your artist draws stays theirs. It is on your body forever and that is yours; the drawing is not. Do not have it reproduced by someone else commercially or pass it off as your own.
This website
The photos, text, and logo on this site belong to Icon Tattoo and the artists who made the work. Do not copy them for your own business.
Liability
We follow New York State and Suffolk County health regulations and we work clean. Beyond that, you accept the ordinary risks of being tattooed, and our responsibility is limited to what the law allows. Nothing here limits liability for anything that cannot legally be limited.
If part of this does not hold up
If a court decides one part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still stands. One bad clause does not undo the agreement.
The whole agreement
These terms, together with any consent form you sign at the studio, are the agreement between you and Icon Tattoo. Something said in passing does not replace them, whether it was said in a message, over the phone, or in the shop. If your artist agrees to something different from what is written here, get it in writing.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and any dispute belongs in the courts of Suffolk County.
Changes
If we change these terms we will change the date at the top. The terms that apply to your tattoo are the ones posted when you booked it.
Contact
Anything unclear here, ask before you book. Email booking@icontattoony.com, use the booking form, or find us at @icontattoo.ny.