American Traditional and Japanese tattooing share the bulk of the flash portfolio at In The Moon Tattoo, a walk-in-welcome shop at 1515 Washington Street on the Mission Hills–Hillcrest transition inside 92103. Bold-line traditional work with black & grey and fine-line add-ons puts the studio in direct conversation with the neo-traditional work coming out of Broken Heart Tattoo up on the University Avenue corridor. The Queens-raised owner brings 16-plus years in the chair, anchoring the flash wall around tight black outlines and classic iconography rather than the fine-line minimalism dominating much of California. Body piercing and nose piercing run on the same schedule as the tattoo chairs, a combined-service format that overlaps with the piercing-and-tattoo menu at Goddess Temple Tattoo Studio. Full Japanese back pieces built across multi-session appointments are the ceiling of what the shop takes on, demanding sitting stamina from the client and traditional color-saturation technique from the artist.