Fifteen Years on Chapel Street

A Parlour, Not a Production Line

Full Moon has been the room where Melbourne comes to mark its chapters for over fifteen years. We take a moment to consider your art, its size, placement and the story behind it, and pair you with the resident whose hands live in that style.

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The Full Moon floor, consultation under the ring light

The floor · 283 Chapel St

The Studio

Fifteen Years in the Same Room

For over fifteen years, Full Moon has sat on Chapel Street in Prahran, the room where Melbourne comes to mark its chapters. First tattoos and family tributes, full sleeves and quiet little pieces that mean everything.

We never treated tattooing as a conveyor belt. Every piece is drawn for the body it lives on, by artists who have spent their lives on the craft. That is the difference you can feel the moment you walk through the door, calm, considered, unhurried. The needle starts only when the design is right.

That patience is why people come back, and why they send their friends. The proof, as we say, is in the ink.

15+
Years on Chapel St

7
Days a week

8
Styles under one roof

∞
Chapters marked

Our Residents

Traditional to Realism, Under One Roof

No single artist is brilliant at everything, so we built a studio that, together, is. Our residents cover the full spectrum: bold traditional, delicate fine line, custom script and lettering, blackwork, colour, and photo-real portraits.

When your brief arrives, we read it properly and match it to the hands that live in that style, rather than squeezing every idea through one person. It is the quiet reason a Full Moon piece looks like it was always meant for your skin.

Walk in and talk it through any day of the week, or send your brief and we will pair you with the right artist.

Tell Us Your Idea Explore the Styles

Custom script forearm by Full Moon Tattoo

Script · custom

Realism · portrait

Blackwork · upper arm

Lettering · sleeve

What “Considered” Means Here

The Way We Work the Room

A few small habits, kept for fifteen years, that add up to art for life.

Drawn for Your Body

Every design is sketched to the placement it will live on, the way it wraps a forearm, follows a rib, sits across a shoulder. Never a stock flash forced onto your skin.

Matched to the Right Artist

We read your brief, then pair it with the resident whose style fits, fine-line, realism, lettering or blackwork, so your idea is in the right hands from the first line.

Clean, Calm, Unhurried

A single-use, fully sterile setup every time, and a chair that runs at your pace. We would rather take a moment longer than rush a line you wear for life.

How We Work

Idea to Ink, Considered Properly

Four unhurried steps, from the first message to the day your piece is healed.

Custom Quote

Send your idea, the size, placement and story. We come back with a price, usually the same day. Start a brief →

Consultation

Sit with your artist. We refine the design, the placement and the session plan together, in the studio or by phone.

Session

The chair. Clean, calm and at your pace, your piece done the way it deserves, however many sittings it takes.

Aftercare

You leave wrapped, with a clear healing routine and a studio you can message. See the aftercare promise →

The Proof Is in the Ink

From the Full Moon Floor

Real pieces, real placements, a small window into the spread of the studio.

Lettering · sleeve

Realism · micro

Fine line · detail

See the Full Gallery

Find the Parlour

283 Chapel Street, Prahran

Walk in and talk it through, or send your brief first, either way, you are in considered hands.

Hours

Open 7 days.
Tue-Sun · 10:30am til late.
Monday · by appointment only.

Parking

Prahran Square Car Park,
30-40 Izett St, $3/hr, $16 max.
Two minutes’ walk to the door.

Getting Here

Trams 78, 72 & 6 stop on Chapel St.
Prahran Station is a 5-minute walk.
Call us: (03) 9510 1892

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