Securing a tattoo appointment with your favorite artist could already prove difficult precoronavirus. Unfortunately, unless they work in a private space or a shop with few artists, appointments may become even more scarce. For the time being, Lilith Tattoo is limiting the body parts they will tattoo — no torsos, faces, or necks — and keeping their capacity significantly reduced. "Usually I'm in the studio four days a week, but now since we're limiting the number of artists that can be in at any given time, we'll only be able to work two days each," Osajima said.
The structure of her job will change, too. "I think in general, a lot more of our time and brain space is going to have to be dedicated to things other than the things I really do this work for — the art and the human connection," she said. "The scope and frequency of our disinfecting process has more than doubled, we're having to spend much more time doing administrative work with all the rescheduling, we're implementing completely new processes, and we're having to limit some of the human parts of the experience that may feel as small as being able to offer someone tea but I think altogether compound into something that represents a significant shift that will persist for some time."
