Stop Making Your Own Saline. Just Stop.
Mixing table salt into tap water isn’t aftercare, it’s guesswork. Find out why homemade saline slows healing and what to use instead for a calmer, happier piercing.
October 21, 2026
4:54 pm
Mixing table salt into tap water isn’t aftercare, it’s guesswork. Find out why homemade saline slows healing and what to use instead for a calmer, happier piercing.
Tattoo gift vouchers in Birmingham are a simple way to give someone a custom piece, a piercing, or a contribution towards one. At Outliers Ink in Bearwood, we’ll walk you through how our vouchers work, what they cover, and how to buy one for a friend, partner, or family member.
There are two non-negotiable rules for a healed piercing: never remove your jewellery during healing, and always start with titanium. Get those two right, and you’ll avoid almost every problem people run into
Melanin was never the limitation. The limitation was knowledge. Here’s why we built a studio where every skin tone gets the same level of expertise, honesty and care, and how that standard changed one client’s whole experience of getting tattooed.
Anime tattoos are everywhere right now, and we get it. A well-placed Naruto tattoo or a Ghibli piece hits different than most tattoo trends because there’s actually a story behind it, not just an aesthetic.
AI-generated tattoo images are everywhere right now. Clients come into our Bearwood studio with them constantly, intricate hand designs, impossible detail, scenes that look incredible on a screen. And while some tattoo artists are complaining about their creativity being strangled, we genuinely mean it, bring them.
Dermals come up a lot at the studio. Someone’s seen one on TikTok, usually on the chest or face. The next minute they’re walking in asking for “a gem in the face.” aka the facial dermal. No problem, but let’s talk you through it properly first.
If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably clocked those sharp, intricate black tattoos that somehow look like they belong in a medieval and a sci-fi film at the same time. That’s cybersigillism
Searching for your next tattoo for 2026? Here are the tattoo styles trending in Birmingham so far in our tattoo studio in Bearwood.
Getting pierced in the School holidays? Here’s Outliers Ink Piercing Studio’s no nonsense guide to prep your kids (and yourself) for their first piercing
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