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Kalia Tattoo Studio | Tattoo Services Terms, Booking Policy & Client Agreement
King ‘Afa | Lapita LLC d/b/a Kalia Tattoo Studio
Last Updated: August 2026

1. Business Identity & Scope

These Tattoo Services Terms govern tattoo services provided by King ‘Afa through Lapita LLC d/b/a Kalia Tattoo Studio.
King ‘Afa may also provide tattoo services as an independent guest artist at third-party tattoo studios, conventions, private travel locations and other permitted facilities.
By booking a consultation, paying a booking retainer, approving an invoice or payment link, confirming an appointment, signing the Tattoo Services Agreement & Informed Consent, or receiving tattoo services, Client acknowledges the applicable terms disclosed for that transaction.
Mandatory health, licensing, consumer-protection, tax, privacy and body-art laws at the location where services are performed control where applicable.

2. Adult Clients Only

Tattoo services are provided only to clients age 18 or older.
Valid government-issued identification may be required before the tattoo procedure.

3. Initial Inquiry vs. Professional Consultation

Initial Screening

Social-media messages, email, text messages and the website booking form may be used for initial screening.
Initial screening is intended to identify the basic project, placement, location, approximate scale and whether the request is appropriate for my practice.
A brief initial screening of approximately 10 minutes may be provided without charge.

Professional Consultation

Detailed tattoo planning is professional work.
Professional consultation may include cultural or heritage discussion, photograph review, body-placement analysis, measurement review, existing tattoo assessment, design direction, archive or historical guidance, scale and coverage planning, session strategy, travel planning, budget analysis and extended professional questions.
Consultation Fees
30 minutes — $150
60 minutes — $300

Consultation may occur by scheduled telephone call, video call, in person, email, text or private/direct message when the parties have agreed that communication has moved from preliminary screening into professional consultation.
Casual or unsolicited messages are not retroactively converted into billable consultation. The applicable paid-consultation requirement will be disclosed before extended consultation proceeds.

4. What the Client Is Paying For

Tattooing is a professional creative and body-art service. The client is not simply purchasing tattoo ink or a finished retail product.
Depending upon the project, the tattoo investment may compensate King ‘Afa for:
consultation; cultural and historical research; archival research; heritage review; design development; body measurements; anatomical planning; body-flow composition; placement mapping; stencil or freehand development; sterile setup; professional equipment and supplies; tattoo application; documentation; aftercare education; scheduling; administration; project management; and professional judgment.

5. Tattoo Budget Is Project Planning

Why a Budget Is Required

A tattoo budget is not used to pressure a client.
The budget helps determine what scale and scope of project can realistically be developed within the client's intended investment.
A $1,500 tattoo, $5,000 tattoo, $10,000 tattoo and $20,000 tattoo are not the same commission.
Different budgets may support different:

All clients receive the same professional safety standard, cultural respect and artistic integrity.
Budget changes project scope and production resources. It does not reduce professional or cultural standards.

6. General Tattoo Budget Ranges

$400–$800+
Small custom tattoo / approximately 2–4 inches / foundation cultural tattoo
$800–$1,500+
Palm-sized tattoo / approximately 4–6 inches / small lifetime-art composition
$1,500–$3,500+
Medium cultural tattoo / archive-based composition / sleeve-foundation starter
$3,500–$5,000+
Partial sleeve / approximately 3/4 sleeve / larger archive-based composition
$5,000–$8,500+
Full-sleeve foundation / chest panel / large leg section / back section / torso section
$8,500–$10,000+
Heavy-detail large-scale cultural tattoo / multi-session project
$10,000–$15,000+
Large-scale Legacy Archive Project / art collector / fine-art cultural composition
$15,000–$20,000+
Private Legacy Commission / executive / director / producer / professional athlete / art collector / private high-end project
$20,000+
Major body project / private travel / long-term collector or legacy commission

These figures are planning ranges, not guaranteed fixed project prices.

7. Hourly & Project Rates

Unless another rate is stated on the written booking confirmation or invoice:
Standard Professional Rate — $400/hour
Elite Project Rate — $500–$600/hour
Super-Elite / Private Commission — $750/hour

Private Class, 1st Class Service Tattoo Clients, Celebrity, Executives, high profile clients, major commercial, licensing, private-travel and special art collector engagements may be negotiated individually.
The specific rate stated on the Client's invoice or booking confirmation controls.

8. Estimates Are Not Fixed Completion Prices

Unless an invoice expressly states “FIXED PROJECT PRICE,” a budget, quote, day rate or time estimate is not a guarantee that the entire tattoo will be completed within that amount or session.
Large tattoos may require multiple separately billable tattoo procedures.
Time can be affected by:

9. Half-Day & Full-Day Sessions

Half-Day Session

Approximately 4 hours of reserved appointment time.

Full-Day Session

Approximately 8 hours of reserved appointment time.
Reserved time may include:
consultation, measurements, shaving, preparation, stencil/freehand mapping, placement adjustment, tattooing, necessary breaks, cleaning, photography/documentation, dressing/wrapping and aftercare.

A full-day appointment does not guarantee eight uninterrupted hours of active needle-on-skin tattooing procedure.
Skin response, swelling, bleeding, safety, Client tolerance and Artist judgment determine how long active tattooing can responsibly continue.

10. Booking Retainer — Normally 30%

This is the central commercial rule.

A booking retainer ordinarily equal to 30% of the quoted tattoo-service investment is required to reserve appointment time unless the invoice or written booking confirmation states another amount.
The booking retainer is applied toward the tattoo-service balance.
The booking retainer is not the same thing as:

What the Retainer Authorizes
It may authorize:

As professional work is actually performed, the corresponding portion of the retainer becomes earned.
Client-specific third-party expenses become earned when purchased, reserved or otherwise nonrecoverable, subject to applicable law.

11. Consultation Fee vs. Booking Retainer

Consultation fees and booking retainers are separate charges unless expressly stated otherwise.
When offered in writing, all or part of a paid consultation fee may be credited toward the Client's booking retainer if the Client books within the stated eligibility period.

12. No Payment = No Confirmed Appointment

Submitting an inquiry, discussing potential dates, receiving a quote, having a consultation or seeing an open date on the Artist's calendar does not reserve an appointment.
An appointment becomes confirmed only after all required booking amounts have been received and written confirmation has been issued.
Depending on location, confirmation may require:
Booking Retainer
+ Facility Fee
+ Travel Expense Payment
+ applicable payment-processing or financing costs

No required payment = No confirmed appointment.

King ‘Afa is based in the Los Angeles area.
When a Client chooses to travel to Los Angeles to receive tattoo services, the Client is responsible for the Client's personal travel expenses unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
These may include:

Client travel expenses are separate from the tattoo-service charge and do not reduce the tattoo price.

14. Lakimii Tattoo Studio — West Los Angeles

Half-Day

Approximately 4-hour reserved appointment:
$300 facility / booth fee per tattoo session

Full-Day

Approximately 8-hour reserved appointment:
30% of the tattoo-service charge for that session
Example:
Tattoo service: $4,000
Lakimii Tattoo - 30% facility fee: $1,200
Total before other applicable charges: $5,200

The Lakimii Tattoo facility fee is separate from the tattoo-service balance and booking retainer unless expressly included in writing.

15. San Jose / Bay Area — Unlimited Ink Tattoo

Unlimited Ink Facility Fee
$100 per booked tattoo session/day
Artist Travel to San Jose
San Jose is a travel appointment for King ‘Afa.
Travel expenses may include:

Shared Travel Expenses

When several Clients are scheduled during the same San Jose/Bay Area travel period, shared Artist travel expenses may be reasonably allocated among the confirmed Client bookings.
Each Client's applicable amount will be disclosed before payment.
These travel amounts are separate from the tattoo-service fee unless expressly bundled in writing.

16. Why San Jose and Los Angeles Cost Differently

Use this comparison.
Los Angeles
Client travels to Artist.
Client pays Client's:
airfare + transportation + hotel + meals + parking + personal travel expenses.
San Jose
Artist travels toward Client.
The San Jose bookings must support Artist's:
airfare + ground transport + accommodation + professional equipment movement + studio costs + travel logistics.

The location price difference is based upon actual service-delivery logistics, not an arbitrary surcharge.

17. Salt Lake City — Fala-O-Niuvakai Tattoo Studio

The current booth/workspace rental arrangement at Fala-O-Niuvakai Tattoo Studio costs Artist $350 per reserved week.
The applicable Client facility allocation will be disclosed on the invoice before payment.
Where several clients are tattooed during the same week:

Studio may allocate shared facility costs across the confirmed Client bookings rather than charge every Client the entire weekly amount.

18. Other Travel Appointments

Travel appointments may require additional expenses including airfare, lodging, checked equipment, ground transportation, permits, workspace rental, destination-specific supplies and other project-specific travel costs.
Travel-expense payments are separate from tattoo-service charges unless the invoice expressly states otherwise.

The amount stated on the invoice or booking confirmation controls.

19. No Duplicate Travel or Facility Charge

When a specific third-party facility, airfare, accommodation or other travel expense has been separately itemized, the identical expense will not be charged a second time under another expense category.

20. Client Travel Disruption

When Client travels to Los Angeles or another service location, Client remains responsible for Client's own flight, hotel, transportation and personal travel arrangements.
Flight cancellation, missed connection, traffic, hotel issue or other Client travel disruption does not automatically create a refund or credit against Artist's professional services, subject to applicable law and the specific cancellation/rescheduling policy.

21. Cancellation & Rescheduling

Local Appointment
At least 14 days' written notice to request one transfer of any remaining eligible retainer.
Travel Appointment
At least 28 days' written notice because:

may already be committed.

Late cancellation, same-day cancellation or no-show may result in loss of amounts attributable to work already completed, nonrecoverable costs and appointment time that cannot reasonably be rebooked, subject to applicable law.

22. Scope Changes

Changes to placement, size, coverage, additional panels, background, cultural direction or substantially greater detail may require:
a revised quote, additional time, additional retainer, additional sessions or rescheduling.

23. Payment Processing & Financing

Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay or another financing provider may be available for eligible transactions.
Financing approval, APR, repayment schedule, term, fees and eligibility are determined by the third-party provider and may vary by Client and transaction.
Client must review and accept the financing provider's final terms before completing financing.
Financing does not alter the Studio's applicable tattoo-service, retainer, facility, travel or cancellation terms.

24. Payment Methods

Only methods you actively accept.
You can include:

Then:

Availability of a particular payment method may change and may be subject to provider terms.

25. Payment Disputes & Chargebacks

If Client believes an invoice, charge or service record contains an error, Client should contact Studio in writing and provide a reasonable opportunity for Studio to review the matter before escalation when practicable.
Consultation fees, booking retainers, tattoo-service payments, travel expenses and facility charges represent different categories of service or project expense.
If a dispute is filed:

Studio may provide records reasonably necessary to document the transaction and services rendered, including:
booking forms; website terms accepted at checkout; invoices; payment records; signed agreements; consultation records; appointment communications; text messages; emails; social-media/private messages relating to the booking; travel reservations and receipts; facility reservations; design-development records; non-sensitive procedure photographs; and session-service logs, to the extent permitted by law.

26. Design Development

Detailed design development begins only after the required consultation/retainer conditions are satisfied.
Artist may work through freehand drawing, stencil, digital drafting, archival research or a combination.
No advance editable file is promised.

27. No Preview / No Design File Release

Advance digital previews, editable artwork, stencils, production files or reusable templates are not automatically supplied before or after the procedure.

28. Cultural Design Authority

Tongan projects may use:

Māori-descended clients may receive work consistent with ta moko protocol, while non-Māori clients may receive kirituhi depending upon cultural context.

29. Safety / Right to Pause

Artist may pause or stop tattooing because of swelling, skin stress, bleeding, impairment, movement, medical concern, unsafe conduct or other legitimate professional/safety reason.
A safety stop does not automatically mean abandonment of the project.

30. Aftercare & Retouch

Normal healing may include limited pigment loss.
A minor healing-related touch-up requested within 90 days may be offered at the Studio's then-stated touch-up fee.
Work after 90 days, restoration, trauma, sun damage, work altered by another artist or other later work is separately billable unless otherwise agreed.

31. Intellectual Property

The underlying standalone artwork remains owned by King ‘Afa and/or the applicable written rights holder.
Client may naturally wear, photograph, film and commercially appear with the tattoo visible as part of Client's body.

A separate license may be required when the artwork itself is extracted and reproduced independently as a logo, print, textile, merchandise graphic, tattoo stencil, NFT/digital collectible or other standalone reproduction.

32. Photography
Separate internal documentation from promotional permission.

33. Governing Documents

The specific Client booking may also be governed by:
the invoice; booking confirmation; signed Tattoo Services Agreement & Informed Consent; applicable jurisdiction addendum; travel addendum; facility terms; and written project-specific amendments.
If an invoice expressly identifies a Fixed Project Price, that written price controls the defined scope stated on the invoice.
Otherwise, the applicable session, hourly, day, travel and facility terms govern.

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surface area;

coverage;

design density;

detail;

project-development time;

archival research;

session structure;

number of procedures;

travel logistics;

private scheduling; and

long-term project planning.

body anatomy;

total surface area;

design complexity;

cover-up requirements;

scar tissue;

stretch marks;

skin condition;

swelling;

bleeding;

movement;

pain tolerance;

placement difficulty;

breaks;

design changes; and

skin response.

consultation fee;

studio/booth/facility fee;

travel expense payment;

airfare;

accommodation;

payment-processing cost;

financing cost; or

other separately disclosed third-party expenses.

What the Retainer Authorizes It may authorize:

scheduling;

administration;

intake review;

photo review;

measurement review;

cultural research;

archive research;

heritage research;

design development;

body-flow planning; and

appointment preparation.

round-trip airfare;

LAX transportation;

rideshare/taxi/rental vehicle;

Los Angeles traffic and travel time;

lodging;

meals;

parking;

baggage; and

other personal travel expenses.

round-trip airfare from LAX to SJC or SFO;

transportation from Artist's home/base to LAX;

transportation from SJC or SFO to San Jose;

transportation to and from Unlimited Ink Tattoo;

return transportation to the airport;

hotel/accommodation;

checked tattoo-equipment baggage;

airline baggage charges;

local transportation;

meals where included;

supplies purchased for the destination; and

other reasonable trip-specific costs.

flights;

hotels;

baggage;

workspace;

calendar time; and

travel logistics

cash;

Zelle;

Venmo;

PayPal;

Stripe/payment link;

What the Retainer Authorizes
It may authorize: