A 2,500-square-foot custom tattoo studio formed in 2011 and relocated to 4857 Newport Avenue in March 2016, Chapter One Tattoo operates as a collective of artists working in black and gray, color realism, portrait, and Japanese traditional styles. The Newport Avenue storefront sits one hundred feet from the juice and açaí counter at Vili's Health Bar, a documented directory proximity that serves long-session tattoo appointments where sitters need a hydration and food break between rounds. Artist rosters include the founder booked nearly two years out on a per-session rate, alongside day-rate and session-rate artists for new bookings with faster turnaround. Walk-ins are welcomed when the schedule allows, and every booking requires a non-refundable, non-transferable deposit scaled to appointment length and artist. Piercing isn't part of the Chapter One service menu — clients wanting coordinated tattoo-and-piercing work handle the second half of the trip at Apogee Body Piercing up the block on Newport Avenue. Multi-session sleeve and back-piece work is the studio's most complex booking format, with some full-piece commitments running twelve sessions or more on a single artist's calendar.