03/01/2026
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🖤 Closing out the year with a full heart 🖤
As we come to the end of another amazing year at Ritual, it feels important to pause and say thank you properly.
To our clients, friends, family, and extended Ritual community - thank you for showing up for us. For trusting us with your bodies, your stories, your moments of courage, celebration, grief, growth, and self-expression. For supporting a small business built on care, safety, creativity, and genuine human connection. We truly wouldn’t be here without you.
This year has been BIG. Challenging, exciting, exhausting, rewarding - all of it. And we are ending it stronger than ever, with the most solid, supportive, and talented team of humans we could ask for.
Each person at Ritual brings something completely unique to the space, and together they create the environment that so many of you tell us you feel safe and at home in.
A very special thank you to our team:
🖤 Koda - our Apprentice Piercer, for your curiosity, growth, dedication, and willingness to learn every single day.
🖤 Ev - our Loctician, for your calm energy, care, creativity, and the magic you bring to every client you work with.
🖤 Sharni - for your consistency, talent, and the quiet strength you bring into the studio.
🖤 Sasha - for your artistry, warmth, and the way you make people laugh and comfortable.
🖤 Luke - for your skill, dark humour, and steady presence that anchors the room.
🖤 Hammy - for your creativity, kindness, and the way you show up for both clients and team.
🖤 Kat - for your bold creativity, individuality, and passion for your craft.
🖤 Emma - for your care, professionalism, and the trust you build so naturally with clients.
🖤 Morgan - our Apprentice Tattoo Artist, for your determination, persistence, and the work you put in behind the scenes.
🖤 Kiri - for your talent, dedication, and the heart you bring into everything you do.
We’re also stepping into the new year buzzing with excitement that 2026 will see the opening of our second Ritual location. It’s something we’ve been working towards with a lot of care, drive, and heart, and we cannot wait to bring more Ritual magic to a new space and community.
To each of you, thank you for choosing to be here, for backing this studio, and for backing each other. Ritual is what it is because of you, our team.
We are sending all our love and gratitude to everyone who graced our chairs this year. As we move into the new year, please take care of yourselves and one another. Celebrate safely, check in on your people, and be gentle with yourselves as we cross into what’s next.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for an incredible year. We’re so grateful to walk forward alongside you all into another magical year.
See you all in 2026 - We reopen January 2nd!
With all our love,
Kel & Aj 🖤
