ONCE UPON A TIME our family was in a tattoo shop getting some work done when we started noticing something.
The artists were complaining.
A lot.
They struggled to find a store with consistent hours. They were frustrated that their favorite products weren't always in stock. They were tired of getting all the way back to their own shop only to find that the products they just bought were already expired.
And it wasn't just one artist. It wasn't just one shop.
As we spoke with different artists, we kept hearing the same complaints and the same frustrations.
We also heard something else; artists talking about what they wished a good tattoo supply shop would be like.
So we did what any completely normal and reasonable family would do and opened our own tattoo supply shop.
Okay, so maybe not every family would do that, but we never claimed to be normal anyway 😂
Bloody Wolf Tattoo Supply opened its doors in 2012
It hasn't always been easy, and we've learned an absolutely ridiculous amount along the way, but we've also been incredibly happy to spend the last 14 years surrounded by tattoo artists, piercers, and other wonderfully creative people who have taught us new things every single day.
FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED SINCE 2012
Bloody Wolf Tattoo Supply isn't a faceless corporation or a giant warehouse that happens to sell tattoo supplies. We're a family business, and the people you interact with are a part of the same family that has been running this shop from the beginning - a fact we're especially proud of.
And while we didn't all start out as artists, we certainly didn't stay on the sidelines.
Two of our owners trained under multiple professional tattoo artists and piercers, one of them completing a full apprenticeship and piercing in the shop for a while. Since then all of us have continued soaking up as much knowledge as humanly possible about tattooing and piercing.
If you know us, you probably weren't surprised by that last part, especially when one of us in particular has a slightly unreasonable need to know everything about whatever she's interested in.
BODY JEWELRY
That interest in piercing and jewelry led to an ever-expanding selection of body jewelry in our shop for both professional piercers who need to buy in bulk and the general public looking for amazing pieces.
Customers are delighted to discover that we carry surgical stainless steel, titanium, stone, borosilicate glass, horn, acrylic, niobium, bioplast, silicone, wood, and bone. We carry all sorts of shapes and sizes from 20g all the way up to 3 inches.
The more our jewelry selection grew, the more one of our owner's interest in body jewelry grew right along with it.
But she took it a step further.
She herself became frustrated after years of faceless manufacturers that constantly ran out of jewelry items, changed their quality and pricing without notice, and wouldn't listen to customer suggestions. So she took matters into her own hands.
She taught herself the art of titanium anodizing and now creates beautiful pieces that customers have been asking us for over the years.
Colorful and hypoallergenic as well as easier on our customers' budgets now that it's done in-house by our very own expert.
After 14 years of having learned from countless professional tattoo artists and piercers, our curiosity has become a pretty useful thing to have around a tattoo supply shop.
That curiosity also eventually led somewhere unexpected.
ENTER 3DCHAOS
If you've seen some of our newer, stranger, cuter, weirder, or downright chaotic products, you've probably encountered 3DChaos.
3DChaos is our growing line of mostly original and a few licensed 3D-printed products, designed specifically to solve problems, organize workstations, and to just make tattoo and piercing stations more fun and aesthetically awesome.
Because apparently owning and running a tattoo supply company wasn't enough and we wanted to make cool stuff too!
3DChaos is becoming a Bloody Wolf Tattoo Supply brand, and we're excited to see where we can take it. Some products will be practical. Some will be cute. Some will be weird. Some may make you wonder why anyone needed such a thing in the first place.
And we're okay with that.
We're artists, problem-solvers, obsessive learners, and people who think, "Hey! I could make that thing I saw in my head."
WE'RE STILL LISTENING
The thing that started it all hasn't changed.
We listen. It's as simple as that.
We listen when artists tell us what they love. We listen when they tell us what drives them crazy. We listen when somebody says, "I wish somebody made this."
Sometimes that means finding a product and brining it into the shop. Sometimes it means tracking down a brand you've been looking for.
And sometimes it means making the thing ourselves.
We've also expanded beyond our original Valley of the Sun roots. Through BloodyWolfTattooSupply.com, we now get to serve artists and piercers throughout the United States.
But whether you're ordering something online, stopping by the shop, picking up an emergency supply, or just coming in to browse, we want you to feel like you're dealing with actual people who care about what they do.
We aren't perfect. We're human. We occasionally make mistakes, learn something new, change our minds, and probably ask entirely too many questions.
But we care.
We care about having good products. We care about keeping things in stock. We care about learning. We care about treating artists and piercers with respect.
And we care about creating a place where you can shop without feeling like you're bothering somebody by asking a question.
Most of all, we're incredibly grateful that you've given our family the opportunity to do this for the past 14 years.
Every order, review, recommendation, conversation, suggestion, and "Hey, you guys should carry this," has helped shape Bloody Wolf Tattoo Supply into what it is today.
So thank you for being part of our story.
We're still listening. We're still learning. We're still making things. And after 14 years, we're definitely not done yet.
Sincerely,
The Bloody Wolf Tattoo Supply Family: Chris, Missy, Bunny, and Luna