Little INKPLAY Shop

06/10/2026

Hey Family!

CONSIDER THIS YOUR INVITE!

Hoodoo n' HENNA Birthday Celebration | June 12, 4-7P
at Oja Aje Botanica
Can you believe it?! This Friday - June 12, we turn 10!

This milestone is a huge thanks to you all - patrons, collectors, investors - our FAMILY!

Without you, we wouldn't be here.

On my personal socials, I'm taking folks on a tour of what's to come next for us.
Everyone who's subscribed to see what's next (https://www.inkandosun.com/) , is being served intimate stories of

OTHER WAYS TO CELEBRATE

The most vexing question from frequenting clients has been what I'd want for my birthday as the human behind the brand. So I put together a very short burfday list. to share with you.

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LET'S CREATE MAGIC TOGETHER!

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05/27/2026

A now … a mesaage from our partner,
Book your Orisa sacred art tattoo with Little INKPLAY Shop, today!

The DMV’s Afro Kawaii Tattoo Wellness Sanctuary
📍 Little INKPLAY Shop — Historic Hyattsville, MD 👇🏾

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05/20/2026

To say the fact is not the Western world did not bring us a word called tattoo. It has been in existence before the arrival.

Have a look at all 10 featured Orisa for this inaugural collection.

Head over to👇🏾
✨ littleinkplayshop.com ✨
To claim 1 of 10 Orisa tattoos by
and get in the chair at the DMV’s Afro Kawaii Tattoo Wellness Sanctuary
📍 Little INKPLAY Shop — Historic Hyattsville, MD

Black female tattoo artist | Fineline Tattoos
Sacred & Trauma Informed Tattoos | Private Studio

05/19/2026

Long before tattooing was reduced to trend, decoration, or rebellion in Western culture, body marking traditions across Sub-Saharan Africa carried profound social, spiritual, and cultural significance.

These markings signified belonging.

They documented rites of passage.

In our upcoming Tattoos of Sub-Saharan Africa Tattoo Tuesday lecture, we explore the cultural memory beneath modern Black tattoo practice — reconnecting contemporary body art to ancestral systems of marking that existed long before colonization obscured their meanings.

Join us as we shift perspective and dig deeper into tattoo as archive and expression of fashion, beauty and above all spiritual technology.

RSVP TODAY!
Class is in Session, May 26 (tues)

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05/19/2026

If you’ve ever felt called to a tattoo you couldn’t explain — like your body remembered something before your mind did — you may be experiencing what I call tattoo hunger:

the ancestral longing to be marked with meaning again.

Long before tattooing was reduced to trend, decoration, or rebellion in Western culture, body marking traditions across Sub-Saharan Africa carried profound social, spiritual, and cultural significance.

These markings signified belonging.

They documented rites of passage.

They encoded lineage, protection, status, devotion, and communal memory.

The body was never simply decorated.
It was archived.

Across many Sub-Saharan societies, marks on the skin functioned as living language — visible records of identity, transformation, and inheritance. These were technologies of remembrance: sacred inscriptions that tethered people to land, lineage, responsibility, and becoming.

For many in the diaspora, the longing for intentional tattooing can surface before historical understanding does.

The body remembers what history attempted to erase.

At Little INKPLAY Shop, we honor this remembrance through intentional Black culture tattooing rooted in reflection, research, ritual, and reclamation.

This is why Tattoo Tuesday exists.

In our upcoming Tattoos of Sub-Saharan Africa Tattoo Tuesday lecture, we explore the cultural memory beneath modern Black tattoo practice — reconnecting contemporary body art to ancestral systems of marking that existed long before colonization obscured their meanings.

Your desire to be marked may not be aesthetic preference.

It may be memory asking to be made visible.

05/18/2026

We are excited to present ORISA SACRED ART TATTOO COLLECTION - an intentional sacred art colọaboration with Yoruba sacred artist, Oluwatobi of

10 Limited Edition Orisa Designs
1 of 1 - so when a design is claimed it is sold out.

And that means claim yours today:
This available collection includes sacred art of -

1. Esu
2. Osun
3. Ogun
4. Orisa Oko
5. Egungun
6. Iyami
7. Orunmila
8. Aje
9. Sango
10. Ifa

All designs start at $1500
Designed by Oluwatobi
Tattooed by Osunyoyin
(Imani K Brown)

Make your tattoo deposit
Claim your Orisa tattoo
Book your consultation to create your tattoo

Head over to👇🏾
✨ littleinkplayshop.com ✨

And we’ll meet you there!

05/13/2026

Did you know Little INKPLAY Shop hosts a spiritual Black tattoo culture convention in the DMV?!

… AND supports its non-profit,

So whenever you support LIPS, you’re never supporting ONE artist, you’re supporting a deep intention and institutional build that will help support a whole army of em ~

From DC all day way@to Japan and full circle back to Nigeria.

It’s the Afro Kawaii way ~

Check out the fête at
✨ littleinkplayshop.com ✨

Get tickets.
Participate With Us.
Donate or Become A Sponsor.

05/08/2026

Livin’ dat BOTANICAL LIFE - an ancestral veneration tattoo isn’t just visual, it’s alive. The botanicals you choose become part of the ritual language your body carries.

Let’s build this like a living archive—where each plant is doing spiritual, emotional, and symbolic work on the skin.

Book a tattoo or consultation TODAY
And let’s tap in to your a custom Afro Kawaii piece made just for Y.O.U. (your own universe)

05/08/2026

Decorating the body can be intentional at Little INKPLAY Shop®

Afro Kawaii is what happens when tattoos become memory, protection, adornment & reclamation all at once.

Through Afro Kawaii, we blend Black cultural pride with kawaii softness, anime influence, botanical symbolism, and ornamental beauty to create tattoos that feel lived in — like wearable reminders of who you are becoming.

Not perfection.
Just softness, identity, confidence & care existing together on purpose.

Pull up to the DMV’s beloved Afro Kawaii Tattoo Wellness Sanctuary, Little INKPLAY Shop® -
a small piece of Harajuku,
located in Historic Hyattsville.

Start Here
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05/06/2026

Hey Family!

Come get this money.
Come get this ink.
Come get this world.

Today is All Afro Kawaii Everything at Little INKPLAY Shop®.
And if you’ve been watching how all the pieces connect—
this is the moment where it all clicks.
But first ...

COME GET DIS MONEY, HONEY!

BEYOND THE CHAIR
AT LITTLE INKPLAY SHOP®

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LET'S CREATE TOGETHER!

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