It is through storytelling, intersectionality and through sharing our lived collective experiences that we can truly grow together and learn of ourselves from one another. With tea’s Venus and Mercury in Gemini in the 4th house – tea has a heavy focus on familial history and trauma, encouraging their clients to communicate and move through the hardships that accumulate there. tea’s moon in Libra is in their 8th house giving them deep emotional insight into death and other taboos that our culture refuses to truly acknowledge. Having suffered an immense amount of personal grief and loss, they aim to help guide folks through their grief. tea understands grief looks like many things and does not only surround death but many other situations and traumas.

Being in this tattoo industry for more than 6 years, tea has found her purpose inc connecting at a much deeper level with her clients.

How they do that? They focus on natal chart reading with their tattoos and encourage their clients to understand the location and movements of their planets by gently guiding them. Tea has noticed a deep change in her relationship with her clients through this. They are so grateful for this skill of tattooing in a gentle way.

Kelli Kikcio belongs from central Canada and has always preferred using hands as contrary to the machine. In 2012, Kelli got a BDes in Fashion Design at Ryerson University and started serving as a designer and production manager in 2015, ultimately co-founding Boneset Studio, a great design company. In 2014, Kelli began attempting machine-free inking both as a form of art and aesthetics and a method to build a feeling of self-freedom. As a Trauma-Informed artist, Kelli acknowledges both the private communications with her customers and the chance to confidently commit to their understanding of oneself and body restoration. Her designs are reflective embellishments that evoke sensations of acquaintanceship and honor being at home in one’s body. Besides tattooing, Kelli continues her multidisciplinary training by the means of garment design/construction, hand embroidery, illustration, clay work, and floral maintenance. Kelli resides with her cats, Noah and Benny, enjoys some music on cassettes, biking throughout Brooklyn, and killing time with her dearest companions.