48 hours. A Viking. And the night that almost destroyed a tattoo artist.

6 days

It was 4 o’clock in the morning.

Michael hadn’t slept for two days. His back was burning. His eyes stung as if he had sand in them. And the Viking design was still not ready.

48 hours. Two full days drawing a Norse warrior for a client who had seen Vikings and wanted “something epic, brutal, with lightning like Thor but darker, more warlike”.

Michael gave his all. Every shadow. Every detail of the helmet. Every wrinkle on the warrior’s face. A work of art.

The customer’s response chilled his blood:

“He looks amazing, but… could you get him to look more straight ahead? And the rays… better in blue? Oh, and I just saw The Last Kingdom – can you mix it with something more Saxon?”

The pencil rustled in his hand.

48 hours. To the trash.

And while Michael was redrawing, three clients who wanted appointments went to another tattoo artist. One who showed them options instantly.

What happened next changed everything

A week later, the same client returned to the studio.

Michael opened the iPad. It showed him three different options. The Viking from the front. With blue rays. With Saxon elements. All brutal. All unique.

The customer stared at the screen without speaking.

“Dude… WHEN DID YOU DO THIS?”

“I’ve been working on your idea,”Michael said.

The truth: 10 minutes that morning.

The client not only closed the back project. He booked dates for more work. And he brought his friends.

Today that Viking exists. It occupies an entire back. He has blue eyes that pierce. The lightning bolts the client dreamed of. The level of detail that seems impossible.

And there is one person in the world who wears it. Only one. Because that design was born from his story, from his obsession with the Nordics, from what he wanted to tell.

That’s what makes the best tattoo studio in Barcelona.

Not tattoos. Stories that stay on the skin forever.

Ma + Je = MAYJE . A family that puts its name on your skin.

2012 . A small place in a town called Terrassa, this studio was born, after Covid 19 they went on to play in the big leagues in Barcelona, but that will be for another story … we are still in 2012.

Michael Salazar was 30 years old. One tattoo machine. Zero customers. Zero reputation. And a wife named Jessenia who believed in him when no one else did.

The name of the study was chosen by him.

Ma of Miakoll. and JE of Yesenia.

MAYJE.

A name that is not in any dictionary. That means nothing to anyone but the two of them. That represents exactly what this business is all about: two people who bet everything on a dream and built something together.

Fourteen years later, their children are working with them.

Mishell, 24, is the first face you see when you walk in. The one who manages the schedule, answers reviews, makes sure every customer feels at home.

Pholl, 21, has been tattooing since he was 7 years old. He started practicing on fake skin while doing his homework in the studio. He studied at the best drawing school in Barcelona. Today he is the second tattooist of the team.

Reina -Jessenia- quit her job in 2013 when she saw that the dream was working. Now she runs the administration, does the piercings, operates the laser to remove tattoos. Without her, Michael says, the name of the store wouldn’t even exist.

When you get a tattoo in Mayje, you don’t get a tattoo from a stranger.

He tattoos you a family that carries his surname in every stroke and marks a legacy.

MORE THAN 2,100 people can’t be wrong

There is an easy way to tell if a tattoo studio is good.

Search on Google. Look at reviews. Read what people who have been there say.

MAYJE TATTOO has over 2,100 reviews. All at 5 stars.

No 4.8. No 4.9. Five stars.

2,100 people who left the study, picked up their cell phones, and took the time to write that it was worth it.

Do you know how difficult that is?

A satisfied customer doesn’t always leave a review. But an excited customer does. A customer who looks at their skin and feels that they finally have what they’ve been imagining for years.

Those 2,100 reviews were not bought by anyone. They were written by real people after real experiences.

And each one tells a story.

Realism that looks like photography

There are tattoo artists who do everything. One day a tribal, another day a watercolor, another day a portrait.

Michael chose another path.

13 years specializing in one thing: realistic tattoos.

Portraits of parents who are no longer here. Eyes of children who have just been born. Pets that were family for 15 years. Faces that the client wants to keep close forever.

Why does it work?

Because when someone spends 13 years perfecting a single style, the result shows. In every pore. In every reflection of light in the eyes. In that feeling that the tattoo is looking at you.

More than 3,000 realistic portraits completed.

Each one unique. Each one unrepeatable. Each one with a story behind it that only the client and the tattoo artist know.

The Inconvenient Truth

Yes, Mayje Tattoo is more expensive than the studio around the corner.

Yes, there is a waiting list. Sometimes for months.

Yes, Michael will say no if your idea doesn’t work as a tattoo. Because he’d rather lose a client today than do something you’ll regret tomorrow.

That is not arrogance.

That’s what happens when someone has been putting their name on the work they do for 14 years. When their kids see every tattoo that leaves the studio. When their reputation depends on you being proud of what you wear.

A tattoo artist who says “yes” to everything is not professional. It’s someone who wants your money today and doesn’t care what you think in five years.

Two types of people enter a tattoo studio

The first one searches for “cheap tattoos Barcelona”. Compare prices. Choose the cheapest. She comes out with something that 47 other people are wearing the same thing. At three years she hates it. At five, she looks for a way to cover it up.

The second enters with a story. She leaves with a work of art that is hers alone. At three years old he is still showing it. At ten he’s still telling why he had it made.

The difference is not in the customer.

It’s in who holds the machine.

Who Mayje Tattoo is NOT for

If you are looking for the cheapest tattoo in Barcelona, this is not your place.

If you want a catalog design that 500 other people carry, this is not the place for you.

If you don’t care if the result is “acceptable” instead of extraordinary, this is not your place.

Mayje exists for people who understand something simple:

You’re going to carry that tattoo for more years than you carry your cell phone, your car and probably your apartment.

It deserves to be done by someone who puts his family’s name on every job.

The moment when everything changes

There is an instant that Michael knows well.

The tattoo is finished. The client gets up from the table. He walks to the mirror. And sees himself for the first time.

Sometimes they say nothing. They just stare. Processing that what they imagined is now real, now theirs, now part of their body forever.

Sometimes they cry.

Not of pain. Of something that has no name. Of seeing on their skin the face of someone they lost. Of closing a stage. Of becoming who they wanted to be.

That moment cannot be bought.

It is built. With hours of conversation. With a design that comes from your story. With the confidence of putting your skin in the hands of someone who understands what it means.

That’s what Mayje Tattoo does.

That’s what you’ve been looking for for 14 years.

Your next step

If you’ve made it this far, you’re no longer the person looking for “cheap tattoos”.

You are someone who understands that a tattoo is an investment. In you. In your story. In the version of you you want to show the world.

Mayje’s schedule fills up fast. Michael only accepts projects that allow him to do his best work.

If you wait too long, your date is taken by someone else.

Contact us now. Tell them your idea. If it doesn’t fit with what they do, they’ll tell you. If it does fit, you’ll begin the process of creating something you’ll wear proudly for the rest of your life.