Ashely Foreman in gray hoodie creating floral design on client's arm, wearing black gloves, using tattoo machine.

Ashely Foreman

Faelien.ink

Auburn, CA

I specialize in custom tattoos formatted to fit the collector. I balance technical skill with intuitive flow and ‘seeing’. I love to explore the contrast between delicate/strong, soft/bold, within a design; people generally have a sort of energetic balance point that ‘feels like them’. Some have told me they are drawn to the softness and use of skin space in my work.

I put an emphasis on design foundations, clean spacing, and flow. I work with principles like wabi-sabi, minimalism, and value what can happen when we allow things to unfold. Whether it’s fine line florals, surreal black-and-gray landscapes, elegant ornamental pieces, or illustrative animals, I work with my clients to create something that feels personal, powerful, and entirely their own.

I generally prefer to work with an idea, feeling, or general direction and then be allowed to put that together for the body placement. I take the time to listen to what you’re saying, to the emotion behind your idea, to the reason you're choosing to make this mark, and I also gather my own ideas and inspiration from what I hear.

Besides what I create for others, my own influences draw from connection to nature, and I spend a lot of time immersed in her. I really enjoy tattooing animals, landscapes, florals, fauna, sacred geometry, ornamentals and the anything from the forest.

I am mixed mexican, irish, and native american (tsalagi) and I am an enrolled member of the cherokee nation. I’ve unwittingly found myself on a reconnection journey, and continue to bring those understandings and realities into my day to day experience, worldview, and practice. As such, when it is appropriate, I do enjoy doing cultural tattoos and markings, especially contemporary takes on cultural motifs, reconnection, ancestral healing intentions, decolonization and land back motifs.

  • Floral

  • Fineline

  • Black and Gray

  • Geometric

  • Dotwork & Stipple Shading

  • Surrealism

  • Cultural Designs and Ancestral Markings

  • Blackwork

  • Realism

Person with an arm tattoo featuring floral designs in black and gray ink, wearing a black T-shirt.
Person with floral and geometric tattoos on chest and neck
Intricate indigenous geometric tattoos covering a person's upper back and shoulder.
person with a black and grey landscape forearm
person with a red tailed hawk tattoo half sleeve
nature inspired calf tattoo
person with an illustrative nature tattoo with a frog, fern, mushrooms, and berries on their arm.
cool hummingbird tattoo with blackwork geometry
person with peony and geometric mandala body art on their thigh
abstract geometry and nature sleeve tattoo
person with an elegant ornamental tattoo on their chest
Person with a complex geometric and abstract black tattoo sleeve covering the entire arm.
Arm tattoo with floral and geometric designs
woman's hip featuring fine line floral blast over
Woman with a black and gray sleeve tattoo featuring a portrait of a woman with a floral design, skeletal elements, and various symbols.
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person with an ornamental tattoo design on their sternum
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Rates and Policies

Rates: $250 hr
Half Day $700 (3.5 hours at $200/hr)
Whole Day $1000 (5+ hours at $200/hr)

Deposit: $200 Nonrefundable
Credited to the final appointment when your project is completed

Standard Cancellation/Reschedule Policy: You can reschedule with no loss of deposit up to 5 days in advance.
After that, you may most likely lose your deposit and need to pay a new one to reschedule. No refunds for cancellations.