Kissing Cousins is a small, cosy tattoo & piercing parlour in the heart of Klein Windhoek — sharing a roof with Jaybird & Blade Barbershop. The walls are part flash sheet, part sketchbook, part memorabilia from every year we've been at it.
We started this place because there were not enough rooms in Windhoek where a tattoo was treated like a decision worth making properly — slowly, in conversation, with someone who actually drew.
"A tattoo is the only thing you carry out of a building that has paid for itself."
We work in custom pieces and classic flash, in fine line and blackwork, in lettering that looks like it was written by a hand instead of typed by a machine. We pierce ears, helix, septum, navel, nipple — with sterile single-use tools and aftercare we write down for you, because we know you will forget.
We are by appointment only. Every booking starts with a free fifteen-minute consultation — to talk through the idea, the placement, the timing — before anything is drawn or scheduled. It's how we make sure the work is right before it becomes permanent.
We don't oversell, we don't rush, and we don't put work on someone we wouldn't put on ourselves. If your idea isn't ready, we will tell you. If it is, we will draw it the way it deserves and put it on you with a steady hand.
