Body Armor Tattoo

02/03/2026

12/03/2025

🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT — IMPORTANT NOTICE 🚨

To our valued clients,

We’ve been made aware of individuals attempting to impersonate our staff through Facebook messages. To protect our clients and our business, please read the following carefully:

Body Armor Tattoo will NEVER request payments, deposits, or money of any kind through Facebook.
This includes messages that appear to come from any of our staff members.

For clarity, the only individuals employed at Body Armor Tattoo are:

April

Earl

Mindy

Even if a message appears to be from one of us, we do not process payments through Facebook or Messenger under any circumstances.

All payments and deposits are handled in person at the shop or through our official, verified payment methods only.

If you receive a suspicious message of any kind, please do not respond. Instead, contact the shop directly or send us a screenshot so we can assist.

Your safety and trust mean everything to us.
Thank you for your continued support.

— Body Armor Tattoo

09/06/2025

Come on in and let’s see what your next tattoo will be!!!

05/03/2025

PSA:

For all clients new and returning.

We DO NOT accepting booking over Facebook messenger. As much as we love our clients, they do not know our personal schedules and future bookings. If you would like to book an appointment please call us or stop into the shop.

All appointments require an $80 deposit or you WILL NOT be added to our books. NO exceptions.

We love all of you and hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sunshine ☀️ while you can!

04/24/2025

Throwing out some Insta handles for all our amazing clients and followers. Give our artists some love and check out their work! Stay tuned for some up coming Flash Sales as well!!!

Earl Cronkright
April Lumbert
Mindy Jones

04/20/2025

Hey everyone! Check out our dear friend Melody Gank! She is one of our amazing clients and an even more amazing Poet and writer! She’s been reading her poetry live and local and would love to build her page M. R. Gank! Go give her a follow and maybe you’ll be able to catch her reading live :) ♥️

Local friends in SW Michigan- if you need some ink, I know just the chapel for you!
Body Armor Tattoo, 3101 S. Westnedge, Kalamazoo
269-552-9100

Communion of Ink

I offered my skin to the needle-
An altar of silence and scars
Where the past peeled off
In curls of smoke
And the present hissed
In sterile fire

Each stroke a psalm
Written backward through time
Each drop of blood
A bead on the rosary
Of everything I survived

Demons rose-
Not in flame, but in memory,
Clawing through bone
To whisper
What I already knew:
You are stained
You are theirs.

But I answered in ink
In flesh

Snakes uncoiled along my ribs,
Scripture wrapped in roses,
A crow across my collarbones
Dragging night with her wings

I baptized myself
In the only way I could-
Needle biting like penance,
Pain singing in tongues.
The artist a priest
In leather vestments,
The hum of the machine
A liturgy older than time

And when it was done,
I was not clean,
But I was my own
The demons had no foothold
In the garden I made
With words and will

They fled the cathedral of flesh
I rebuilt in ink and blood
They could not stay in the place
where I chose every mark.

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02/27/2025

The shop will be closed until Tuesday March 4th! We look forward to seeing you guys next week! ❤️

01/31/2025

Valentine’s flash sale
Going the whole month of February
Call and make your appointments soon