Piyok Pain for Gain Tattoo is a tattoo studio at 1287 Dominion Rd in Hillsborough, Auckland, holding a five-star Google rating. A tattoo is for life, so it pays to sit with a design before the needle touches skin: size, placement and line weight all shape how a piece reads as skin ages. Custom work usually starts with a consultation, where the idea is drawn up and adjusted to suit the spot it will live on. Healing matters as much as the work itself — keep it clean, stay out of the pool, and expect a fortnight or so of itching before the colour settles. Regulars know a good artist will talk you out of a bad placement rather than ink it anyway. On a busy stretch of Dominion Rd, Piyok Pain for Gain Tattoo gives Hillsborough locals a handy place to make an idea permanent.