Invoice and Betty Brown, homeowners of the family-friendly Evolution Ink on Cliffdale Street, debuted their free EvolutionInk Tattoo Conference final 12 months. They mentioned the neighborhood response exceeded their wildest expectations. This 12 months, April 12-14, the Browns are bringing the conference again — and going all-out to make it a can’t-miss weekend for tattoo-lovers and their households.
All weekend at this 12 months’s free occasion, attendees will take pleasure in particular pricing of $20 off all tattoos and $5 off all piercings. As much as 19 tattoo artists, about 17 in-house and two visitor artists, can be current. Evolution Ink’s piercers, grasp piercer Nick Perron and Lyn Blevins, may even be there.
“Most conventions cost $25-$65 for the weekend,” Invoice mentioned. “Ours is free. Our motto is, you’re taking that cash you’d spend on different conventions and apply it to a tattoo or piercing on the EvolutionInk Conference.”
For every day somebody attends the conference and will get a tattoo or piercing, they’ll be entered right into a drawing to win a grand prize of $2,500 price of customized Evolution ink or a second-place prize of $500 in physique piercing. “No one has a prize like that,” Invoice mentioned. “I needed to go actually large this 12 months. … And it’s not just like the North Carolina lottery the place your odds are one in 1,000,000 to win. You will have fairly good possibilities. Somebody goes to stroll away with an enormous prize.”
Whatever the drawing, everybody who will get tattoos or piercings will stroll out with a free VIP Swag Bag containing $65 price of things, together with a T-shirt, water bottle, automotive decal, magnet and future low cost playing cards.
Friday afternoon, Jeff Davis from Q98 will DJ a dwell present on-site. That night, regionally liked and acclaimed band Rivermist will entertain with dwell music.
Saturday afternoon, native movie star and Military veteran EJ “Skullcrusher” Snyder will do a meet-and-greet. Snyder is Fayetteville’s personal three-time champion of Discovery Channel’s “Bare and Afraid.” All day, the United Service Group of North Carolina could have a cellular middle arrange with tablets, big-screen TVs, video gaming consoles, Wi-Fi and informal seating for service members to take pleasure in.
Babann’s Southern Fried Hen meals truck can be on-site Friday and Saturday afternoons, too.
The Fayetteville Woodpeckers can be current promoting Woodpeckers garments, hats and different paraphernalia. That day has not been confirmed but, the Browns mentioned, however it’ll doubtless be Sunday.
“Children and infants are welcome; we’re positively family-friendly,” Invoice added, noting that there can be an out of doors face-painting station arrange for kids.
“It’s going to be the large occasion in Fayetteville. If we’ve too many shoppers on a day and somebody can’t keep and get their tattoo or piercing accomplished, we’ll give them a raincheck card. Inside three months after that date, they’ll come again and get that tattoo or piercing and so they’ll nonetheless get the low cost and the Swag Bag.”
A portion of the occasion’s proceeds will profit St. Jude’s Kids’s Hospital, the Fort Bragg Fisher Home, the Fort Bragg chapter of United Service Organizations of North Carolina, and the Fayetteville Animal Safety Society. Evolution Ink has a coronary heart for giving animals houses and affords a year-round incentive the place prospects who present their adoption papers for a pet from FAPS, or any native licensed shelter, get $50 off their ink.
The EvolutionInk Tattoo Conference 2019 runs Friday, April 12, from 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, April 13, from 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; and Sunday, April 14, from noon-8 p.m. Evolution Ink is situated at 5924 Cliffdale Rd. Go to www.evolutioninkstudio.com or name 910-323-2243 to study extra.
