Harmony and Windy met at Treja Beauty, where they worked alongside Treja, and the three quickly became best friends. Harmony and Windy were each building their own businesses: one in permanent makeup and tattooing, the other in advanced skin rejuvenation. What began as two very different specialties sharing the same space grew into countless conversations about what they might create if Harmony ever opened a place of her own.
At first, the idea was small. They talked about a mobile “inked parlor.” But somewhere along the way, it became something much bigger: a place where beauty and body art could feel different. Not intimidating. Not impersonal. And definitely not a place where you feel like you need to look, act, or be a certain way before you walk through the door.
They envisioned a space that brought together the things they love without taking itself too seriously: art, beauty, transformation, individuality, and genuine human connection. They wanted to create the kind of place they wanted to be in.
Harmony came from the world of tattooing and permanent makeup, where art becomes part of the person wearing it. Windy came from anti-aging, design, and technology, with an obsession for finding better ways to do things and a belief that aging gracefully should not mean trying to look like somebody else. Their backgrounds may be different, but their philosophies are remarkably similar: the person in front of them matters more than the service they are performing.
So they created The Inked Parlor. A place where a tattoo can carry a story or exist simply because you love it. Where permanent makeup enhances what is already yours. Where skin treatments are about feeling good in your skin, not erasing every indication that you have lived in it. And where you can talk, laugh, overshare, sit quietly, or simply be.
This space was built with intention, but it was also built with community. They wanted somewhere their clients would enjoy coming to and somewhere they would love working. And, just as importantly, they wanted to create the kind of place they would want to walk into as clients themselves.
Beauty • Tattoo • Ritual
Three words for services that may look very different, but have something important in common: they are all ways we choose to care for, express, and reconnect with ourselves.
The Inked Parlor is an appointment based beauty, tattoo and skin studio in Santa Rosa, California, offering tattoo artistry, permanent makeup and advanced skin rejuvenation under one roof.
But the services are only part of what we’re creating here. We believe the experience surrounding a service matters just as much as the service itself. That is why The Inked Parlor was intentionally designed to feel less like a traditional tattoo shop, salon or medical aesthetics office and more like a place you actually want to spend time.
It is artistic and a little unconventional. Beautiful without being precious. Professional without feeling sterile. Most importantly, it is welcoming. You do not need to dress a certain way, know tattoo terminology, have perfect skin or arrive with everything figured out. Ask questions. Tell us you are nervous. Tell us exactly what you want. Tell us what you absolutely do not want. We want you to feel comfortable enough to be honest with us.
We are not interested in creating copies of anyone. Whether you are sitting with Harmony for tattoo or permanent makeup or with Windy for a skin treatment, our approach starts with the same question:
Sometimes transformation means creating something entirely new. Sometimes it is enhancing something that is already there. Sometimes it is changing the one little thing that has bothered you every time you have looked in the mirror for twenty years. And sometimes it is doing something just because it makes you happy. All are perfectly valid reasons to be here.
Not somebody else's definition of it. Yours. Our beauty services are designed to enhance rather than homogenize, with thoughtful permanent makeup and skin treatments tailored to the individual.
Art with a pulse. Meaningful, spontaneous, sentimental, beautiful, weird or simply something you wanted permanently attached to your body. We are here for all of it.
The part that goes beyond the service. Taking time for yourself. Marking a change. Reclaiming something. Sitting in the chair and letting someone else take care of you for a while. Ritual means something different to everyone and that is exactly the point.
Some people will come through our doors for a tattoo. Some for permanent makeup. Some because they want to do something about their skin. We hope what keeps people coming back is how they feel when they are here. The Inked Parlor is a place for conversation and quiet, laughter and vulnerability, artistry and self care. We’re building a community around the idea that taking care of yourself and expressing yourself don’t have to fit neatly into separate boxes. Because neither do people.
