Custom tattooing with an artist-first approach.
Bell Rose Tattoo was built around one simple idea: great tattoos begin with great artists. Located in Daphne, Alabama and serving clients throughout Mobile, Baldwin County, and the Gulf Coast, our studio brings together artists with distinct specialties. From American Traditional to black & grey realism, fine line, large-scale work, and custom illustrative designs. Every consultation begins with your ideas, and every tattoo is designed to fit both your vision and your body.
Licensed Tattoo Studio
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Custom Tattooing
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Walk-in Availability
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Experienced Artists
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Serving the Gulf Coast
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Licensed Tattoo Studio ✳︎ Custom Tattooing ✳︎ Walk-in Availability ✳︎ Experienced Artists ✳︎ Serving the Gulf Coast ✳︎
A B O U T T H E S T U D I O
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A tattoo studio built around artists, composition, and care.
Every tattoo begins with a conversation. A tattoo is more than artwork. It's something you'll carry with you every day. That's why we believe every great piece starts with listening. Before a needle ever touches skin, we take the time to understand your ideas, your story, and how the design should flow naturally with your body.
Rather than forcing every client into one aesthetic, we've built Bell Rose around a team of artists with distinct specialties. Whether you're looking for bold American Traditional, Japanese, black and grey, fine line, realism, or fully custom work, you'll be paired with the artist whose style best fits your vision.
Our goal isn't simply to create a tattoo that looks great the day you leave the studio. It's to create one that you'll still be proud to wear decades from now.
Browse artist portfolios, choose the style that best fits your idea, and submit a tattoo request with the details needed to start the booking process.
Find the right artist for your tattoo.
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Peter Anderson
BLACK & GREY / LARGE-SCALE COMPOSITION
Peter specializes in black and grey tattooing with a focus on large-scale floral, religious, architectural, statue-inspired, and realism-based work. He is best suited for clients looking for thoughtful composition, strong body flow, and custom black and grey pieces with a fine-art foundation. -
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Pat Duval
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL TATTOOING
Pat specializes in American traditional tattoos in color or black and grey, with a focus on clean, legible designs built to last. He is a strong fit for classic tattoo imagery, walk-in-friendly pieces, and modern ideas redesigned through a traditional tattoo lens applying his strong artistic twist. -
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Rob Green
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL TATTOOING
Rob specializes in bright, bold American traditional tattoos, illustrative designs, Japanese traditional-inspired work, and walk-in-friendly custom pieces. He is a strong fit for clients looking for bold color, pop culture influence, stylized imagery, and tattoos built to last. Rob has Traditional roots with illustrative personality. -
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Robert Johnson
JAPANESE & AMERICAN TRADITIONAL TATTOOING
Robert’s work is built around Japanese traditional, American traditional, illustrative design, bold composition, and dynamic imagery. He is a strong fit for clients looking for custom traditional tattooing, large-scale Japanese work, black and grey, tribal, or illustrative pieces with lasting structure. -
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Zach Long
BLACK & GREY REALISM / LARGE-SCALE
Zach specializes in black and grey realism, photo realism, portraits, religious imagery, wildlife, architectural subjects, and large-scale powerful compositions. He is best suited for clients looking for detailed, accurate, high-contrast tattoo work built around realism, discipline, and strong visual impact. -
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Brent Mccarron
JAPANESE & AMERICAN TRADITIONAL TATTOOING
Brent is a versatile, road-tested tattooer with deep roots in American traditional, Japanese traditional, black and grey, and walk-in tattooing. He is a strong fit for clients looking for classic tattoo imagery, large-scale traditional work, or a tattooer with broad experience across multiple styles. -
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AJ Rockwell
NEO-TRADITIONAL TATTOOING
AJ creates fine line, color, black and grey, neo-traditional, and illustrative tattoos with a strong focus on detail, composition, and one-of-one design. They are a strong fit for anime-inspired work, whimsical imagery, nature themes, and custom tattoos with personality. AJ has fine art foundations, custom by nature. -
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Maddie Stanaland
BLACK & GREY REALISM / CONCEPTUAL
Maddie creates black and grey realism, portraits, religious imagery, surrealist designs, abstract compositions, and large-scale conceptual tattoos. She is a strong fit for clients looking for high-contrast work with detail, intensity, and strong visual impact. Powerful concepts, precise black and grey, with a fine-art foundation. -
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Josey Yonge
BLACK & GREY / COVER UP / TRADITIONAL
Josey is a versatile tattooer specializing in black and grey, cover-ups, florals, traditional designs, fine line black and grey, and bold custom work. She is a strong fit for clients who need help refining an idea, cleaning up existing work, or turning a complex concept into a tattoo that works.
T A T T O O S T Y L E S
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Black and grey tattoos use shading, contrast, and tonal range instead of color to create depth, texture, and atmosphere. This style is a strong fit for realism, portraits, religious imagery, florals, architectural subjects, and large-scale custom work.
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Traditional tattoos are built around bold lines, strong shapes, limited color palettes, and classic tattoo imagery designed to hold up over time. This style is a great fit for roses, daggers, eagles, skulls, panthers, ships, hearts, and timeless flash-inspired designs.
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Japanese traditional tattoos are built around bold composition, strong movement, and classic imagery such as dragons, koi, tigers, snakes, peonies, chrysanthemums, masks, waves, and wind bars. This style is especially well suited for large-scale work like sleeves, back pieces, ribs, legs, and full body compositions that flow with the body over time.
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Fine line tattoos use delicate linework, softer detail, and a lighter visual approach for smaller or more minimal designs. This style is best suited for simple botanical pieces, script, symbolic tattoos, small custom designs, and refined placement-focused work.
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Floral tattoos can range from delicate and minimal to large-scale, detailed, and highly rendered. This style works well in black and grey, fine line, traditional, illustrative, or realism-based approaches depending on the artist and placement.
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Large scale tattoos are ideal for clients seeking full sleeves, back pieces, leg sleeves, and other extensive custom projects. These tattoos are carefully designed to flow with the body's anatomy, creating seamless compositions that connect multiple elements into one cohesive piece. Whether rooted in Japanese traditional, black and grey realism, or custom illustrative work, large scale tattooing delivers bold, impactful artwork built to stand the test of time.
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Realism tattoos are all about capturing life as it is. Every detail, every expression, every texture. Using advanced shading, contrast, and fine detail, artists create lifelike portraits, animals, objects, and scenes that look like photographs on skin. Whether black and grey or full color, realism tattoos turn meaningful moments, loved ones, and person stories into timeless works of art.
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Our color tattoo artists specialize in creating custom tattoos that range from bold American Traditional designs and Japanese-inspired work to florals, illustrative tattoos, and realism. Using premium pigments and proven techniques, we focus on creating vibrant color tattoos that heal beautifully and maintain their impact over time.
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Walk-in appointments are perfect for smaller tattoos that can typically be completed in a single session. Whether you're choosing from our rotating flash designs or bringing in your own idea, our artists can often accommodate same-day tattoos based on availability.
While larger custom projects usually require a consultation, walk-ins are a great option for meaningful script, symbols, florals, traditional designs, fine line tattoos, and other smaller pieces that don't require extensive design time.
Explore tattoo styles.
B O O K I N G P R O C E S S
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How booking works.
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Choose an artist
Review portfolios and choose the artist whose work best fits your tattoo idea.
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Submit your request
Send your concept, placement, approximate size, references, and preferred timing.
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Consult & schedule
The studio will review the project and help determine the next step for booking.
R E C E N T W O R K
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A look inside the studio.
What People Are Saying
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Communication was top-notch and the final outcome was even better than we imagined. A great experience all around.
— Former Customer
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Their attention to detail and commitment to quality truly stood out. We’ve already recommended them to others.
— Former Customer
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Every detail was thoughtfully executed. We're thrilled with the outcome, and have already recommended them to others.
— Former Customer
L O C A T I O N
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Tattoo studio in Daphne, Alabama.
The Bell Rose Tattoo is located in Daphne, Alabama and works with clients from Mobile, Fairhope, Spanish Fort, Baldwin County, and the Eastern Shore.
THE BELL ROSE TATTOO
2007 US-98, Daphne, AL 36526
HOURS
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday: 12pm-8pm
Wednesday: 12pm-8pm
Thursday: 12pm-8pm
Friday: 12pm-8pm
Saturday: 12pm-8pm
Sunday: CLOSED
PHONE
(251) 447-0499
R E A D Y T O S T A R T ?
Tell us about your next tattoo.
Submit your idea and we’ll help match the project with the right artist at The Bell Rose Tattoo.