What is the name of the business you are nominating?
Ink About It Tattooing
Who are the owner(s) and/or principal leadership in this company?
Kaylena Blazier
Location:
Berrien Springs
Nominator’s Name:
Kaylena Blazier
How many people work at the company you are nominating?
4
Tell us the story behind the nominated company. What does it do, and what sets them apart from other companies in the region?
We bring happiness and celebration to people’s bodies through custom art! The environment is clean and extremely welcoming with all-female artists. Everyone (clients & employees) that comes through the door is truly family and feels at home instantly!
In your own words, why do you think this company deserves to be declared to be one of the 20 Best Places to Work in Michigan’s Great Southwest?
For our welcoming environment, our family-oriented focus, and women (and men) empowering focus! Our workers are best friends in and out of the shop, and it definitely translates & pours into our clients. Everyone always loves their experience & becomes long-term clients.
What makes workers proud to say they work there, and keeps them a part of the team?
Our all-women team is so positivity focused and full of love, every day is literally hanging out with your best friends. We laugh, make beautiful art, eat, and hang out in between tattoos.
Let’s pretend you’re writing a review for Google or Indeed. Give us your best recommendation for the nominated company that would make the rest of us wish we worked there, too.
Ink About It Tattooing is a second home, a place where you are safe and can speak or be anything you want. There’s never any judgment, always positive encouragement and love. If they’re not inking we’re getting food and spending time together inspiring each other.
Best Places to Work have a reputation for not only working hard but also for playing hard.
By celebrating each person who comes in the door and making them feel beyond special. The more we can do for our clients and community the better. We volunteer for local events and are deeply involved in community engagement.
What one thing is special about your nominated company that most people in the community have no idea actually happens there, but should be shouted from the rooftops because it’s that cool?
We are an all-women shop and love to give clients an exceptional experience. Every moment is like hanging out with the girls!
Give us three employee perks or benefits that you think make the company you have nominated worthy of a Best Places to Work trophy?
- Friendship/encouragement
- Creative Inspiration
- Free tattoos on each other!
Anything else you’d like to mention about this company, its leadership, etc?
Truly the most wholesome group of women that love people, and each other. Not a single day EVER feels like work because we love what we do and we love and appreciate each other even more!!!
