Lab of Ink

Areas covered

A tattoo artist who comes to your home in Pampanga

Pampanga is the one confirmed area that is not reached along the coast. It sits on the other side of the mountains, which makes it the area where agreeing the date early is worth the most.

There is no studio to visit, here or anywhere: the work happens at the address you give, on a date arranged in advance.

Where this is

A province in Central Luzon, inland and east of the Zambales mountains, so the journey is over the pass rather than along the coast road.

Name the municipality

Name the city or municipality, and the barangay if you can. Pampanga is the furthest of the confirmed areas and the one where the date matters most, because a long journey is harder to move at short notice than a short one.

How the visit runs in Pampanga

Pampanga has both kinds of address in quantity: city units in Angeles, San Fernando and Mabalacat, and houses on lots in the municipalities around them. Say which yours is, for the same reason Olongapo asks: a lift, a gate and a visitor log are things a resident can arrange in a day and a visitor cannot arrange at all.

Where this sits on the round

Of the six confirmed areas, Pampanga is the only one reached over the mountains rather than along the bay road, so it is the one whose journey is least like the others. It is also the one the owner named furthest from the Zambales group. No single distance is published for it either, for the same reason as Bataan: it is a province rather than a town. Name the municipality and it can be measured.

A design from the gallery. The artist brings the work to Pampanga; the drawings are made before anyone travels.

Designs this artist can make, drawn for the gallery. Not photographs of a client's tattoo.

Does the artist come to Angeles, San Fernando or Mabalacat?

Asked from Pampanga

The owner confirmed Pampanga as a province, so anywhere in it is worth asking about, those three included. What the page will not do is list cities he did not name one by one, because a list like that reads as a promise about each of them and only the province was actually promised.

How the travel charge works

Two amounts, quoted together. The tattoo is priced on size, detail and how long it takes. Travel is priced on how far your address is from the artist, and it is a separate line rather than something folded into the tattoo price.

The travel is yours to pay, on top of the tattoo, and no figure for either is published on this site. A travel charge that ignored distance would be wrong for almost everyone, so it is worked out once you name where you are.

What you provide

A table, a chair you can sit still in for a few hours, a power socket and decent light. That is the whole list. The artist brings everything else, including the covering that goes over your table before anything is opened.

Nothing is bought or borrowed at your end, and nothing used is left behind.

The other areas confirmed so far

Five others, and not being on the list is not a no. If your town is in Luzon it is worth asking; if it is on Visayas or Mindanao, it is not covered.

If you are in Pampanga

Name the city or municipality, and give a date you can hold. Of the six areas, this is the one where a date agreed early is worth the most to both sides.

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