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Tattoo Appointment Request Form
A tattoo appointment request form has to give an artist enough to say yes, no or "that's not my style". Design, placement, size, references and budget.
For tattoo artists, piercers and studios.
Placement and size decide the sitting, not the drawing
An artist can't estimate time from a description. What they need is the placement, the measurement in centimetres and whether it's colour - because those three determine whether this is two hours or three sittings.
So this template asks for a measurement rather than "medium", and asks for reference links. It also asks the budget honestly, because the gap between a client's number and a day rate is the single most common reason a booking falls apart after two weeks of messages.
Requests you can actually schedule
A name and "sometime next week" isn't a booking. What you need is when they can come, what they want, and how to reach them if the slot moves.
This template asks all three, so the diary entry is a copy-and-paste rather than a conversation.
Age, aftercare and the design brief
Placement, size, reference images, skin history and age confirmation decide whether you can take a booking and how long to allow. They're also the questions that get skipped when everything happens in a DM.
A form gives you the brief in writing before you spend an evening drawing, and a dated record of the consent and age declaration you're required to hold.
Give them options, not a blank box
Open questions get vague answers. Offering the services and the times you actually have makes the request usable, and quietly steers people towards the slots you want to fill.
Yours to change, immediately
Nothing here is fixed. Rewrite a question, reorder them by dragging, add your brand colour, delete half of it. Save and the live form updates - there's no separate publish step and no deploy to wait for.
What this template asks
- Your name
- Date of birth
- Email address
- Mobile number
- Instagram handle
- Describe what you'd like
- Where on the body?
- Approximate size in centimetres
- Colour
- Which style?
- A link to reference images
- What do you like about your references?
- Do you have tattoos already?
- Is this covering or reworking an existing tattoo?
- Budget
- Are you prepared for more than one sitting if needed?
- When could you come in?
- Is there a date you need it done by?
- Any artist preference?
- I am 18 or over and will bring photo ID
- I understand a deposit is required to book and is non-refundable if I don't show
- Anything else?
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Questions
Should I ask for a budget?
Yes, as a range, and state your day rate or minimum on the page. Tattoo pricing is opaque to clients and the mismatch wastes everybody's time.
Can clients send reference images?
Yes - a file question takes up to three reference images at 20 MB each. Also ask what they like about the reference, because "this one" often means the colour rather than the composition.
Does this book the slot automatically?
No - it collects a request, and you confirm it. That's deliberate: real diaries have exceptions, and a form that promises a slot you can't honour costs more than one that asks.
Can I limit the options people can pick?
Yes. The service and time-of-day lists are yours to edit, so people can only choose from what you actually offer. You can also close the form when you're full.
Will I know straight away?
Yes, if you want to be. Turn on live notifications and every request is emailed to you the moment it arrives; otherwise collect them and read them in your dashboard.
Can I use this as the consent and age form?
Many studios do, with the declarations as separate tick boxes and the response kept as the dated record. Local rules on age verification and record-keeping vary - check what yours requires, and keep the wording specific.
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