Unlock Your Creative Legacy.
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uniqueness can grow into
a creative legacy?
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LIBERATION INNOVATION
I help Gen X creatives and spiritually aware entrepreneurs reclaim visibility, purpose, and playfulness through tattoos and anti-branding, guided by ancestral wisdom. Together, we turn midlife “weirdness” into wellness, wealth, and legacy—transforming the parts of you once called strange into strategy, reputation, and cultural inheritance.
Meet Your Coach
Master Tattoo Artist | Ethnohistorian | Author | Philosopher | Cultural Steward
IMANI K. BROWN® (Osunyoyin)—Osun priestess, spiritual practitioner, and brand alchemist—blends ritual, ancestry, and storytelling in her dedication to reactivating tattoo as both ancestral inheritance and liberation technology. Recognized as the second most prominent Black female tattoo artist in the U.S. and first most prominent Black tattoo artist in Japan, she continues to shape global conversations around tattooing, culture, and creative liberation.
A noted practioner-scholar of her field, she is the founder of Little INKPLAY Shop®, a lineage-centered tattoo studio dedicated to embodied practice, ritualized wellness, and Afro-Kawaii design. As stewardess of Black tattoo culture through the Black Tattoo Anthology® non-profit, she works to reclaim, document, and preserve diasporic tattoo traditions through fellowships, storytelling, and archival practice. Expanding this cultural work into entrepreneurship, Imani created Y.U.M.E. Create Club®, a community platform for multi-passionate creatives to transform ritual and story into systems of visibility, sustainability, and wealth.
Author of Shoppe Gal®, The Memoir: The Journey of a Black Female Tattoo Artist, Imani’s practice redefines tattooing as cultural inheritance, liberation technology, and a pathway for collective healing and remembrance.
Her ethos is simple: the very things we are taught to hide—our magic, our lineage, our multi-passionate creativity—are the tools that protect us, guide us, and sustain our futures.
COACHING PROGRAMS
READINGS & SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE
Access ancestral guidance, clarity, and alignment through intuitive tarot for life, business decisions, and purpose.
Book A Reading (Coming Soon)
WELLNESS, WEALTH & LEGACY BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Cultivate balance through workshops blending ancestral wisdom and creative strategy for life, business, and self-mastery.
WEIRD TO WEALTH LIFE COACHING
Transform creativity and cultural inheritance into sustainable wealth, wellness, and radical self-expression.
TATTOO ACADEMY ACCELERATOR
Mentorship program for artists to learn and integrate tattoo practice and ritual into their creative brand offerings.
THE SHOPPE GAL® ETHOS
A commitment to unlocking creative inheritance
transforming grief into creativity, invisibility into visibility, and weirdness into wealth—
through tattoos, stories and spirit-led business.
It is about living at the intersection of ritual, remembrance, and radical creativity. It’s the belief that what we are taught to hide—our weirdness, our wounds, our cultural inheritance—is actually the source of our power, wealth, and wellness.
SHOPPE GAL®, THE MEMOIR
Unapologetic. Feminine. Inked in Resilience.
A coming-of-age story of Imani K. Brown—one of the first Black women to break barriers in tattooing. Equal parts grit, glitter, and growth, this book inspires creatives and dreamers to embrace their power, rewrite the rules, and build a life that feels like their own.
SHOPPE GAL® DIARIES
MY CREATIVE INHERITANCE
BLACK TATTOO ANTHOLOGY®
Archival storytelling, artist features, event highlights
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DOCUMENTATION. PRESS. & PUBLICATIONS.
THE SHOWCASE: IMANI K BROWN | Artist Vignette with Kayode Kendall of KeN-K Media, 2023
TATTOOING WHILE BLACK | A Community Conversation Exploring the Trials of Being a Black Tattoo Artist, 2020
MORE THAN A TATTOO: A LIFE-CHANGING TATTOO EXPERIENCE | Client Story Conversation Archive curated by Imani K Brown for Little INKPLAY Shop, 2018
A RARE BLACK FEMALE TATTOO ARTIST SPEAKS ON CREATIVITY, RACISM, & CRAFT IN THE BODY ART WORLD | Published by The Grio, 2012
COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES | the only Black Tattoo Culture Documentary produced by Miya Bailey, 2012
SOUND PATTERNS NO. 8, 2023
Your story is sacred. Your path is waiting. Let’s create it together.
Every tattoo, every story, every ritual is a return—a remembrance of who we’ve always been.
My work is more than ink; it is cultural stewardship, liberation technology, and a mirror for your own becoming. As your transformation coach
I hold space for your magic, lineage, and visibility to rise.
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All Rights Reserved.
Tattoo Lineage. Cultural Stewardship.
African Studies. Intellectual & Cultural History.