Tattoo Wellness • Creative Reset • Spiritual Hygiene
Turn Your Creative Inheritance
Into Creative Legacy.
Return to yourself so your
creativity, identity, and
money flow again.
Ink. Ritual. Story.
LIBERATION / INNOVATION
Hey there! I am Imani K Brown (Osunyoyin) —
Your Weird-to-Wealth Creative Ritual Coach.
Across African tattoo history, creativity has always been inheritance —
A memory of who we were, who we are, and who we’re becoming.
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My work helps you return to that memory:
through tattoo wellness
through creative reset and nervous system repair
through spiritual hygiene rooted in Sub-Saharan ritual traditions
through brand visibility that honors (not erases) your magic
You don’t need to “build a brand.”
You need to come home to yourself, and let the world see you from there.
THE 3 PATHWAYS
OF YOUR RETURN
INK & Identity
Tattoo Wellness • Ritual Tattooing • Tattoo Therapy
Trauma-informed tattoo for individuals who want to heal through the body and transform the skin into a living altar.
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Offer Highlights:
Afro-Kawaii Tattoo Booking
Tattoo Therapy Sessions
Ink & Ọ̀ṣun Healing Circle
Cultural Tattoo Workshops
STORY & Stewardship
Memoir • Cultural Playbook Research • Lineage Work
Books, courses & workshops for culture keepers ready to turn their lived experience into ancestral power, scholarship, and legacy.
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Offer Highlights:
Cultural Workshops & Courses
Shoppe Gal® Memoir
The Cultural Stewardship Playbook (2026)
Creative Reset Retreats
VISIBILITY & Money
Anti-Branding • Creative Business Systems • Fractional CMO
Brand Services for creatives who refuse hustle culture and want visibility that feels like ritual — not burnout.
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Offer Highlights:
"from Assets to Ancestors" Masterclass
Weird to Wealth (6-week intensive)
Position for Profit Fractional CMO Experience
Tattoo Academy (90-day tattoo course)
Ẹ káàbọ̀. Yokoso. Welcome.
I am Imani K. Brown | Osunyoyin
Your 'Weird to Wealth' Creative Ritual Coach
Master Tattoo Artist | Ethnohistorian | Author | Philosopher | Cultural Steward
IMANI K. BROWN® (Osunyoyin)—Osun priestess, spiritual practitioner, and brand alchemist—is one of the most influential Black women in tattooing today. With 23+ years of serving Fineline for My Melanated Folk, she is recognized as the second most prominent Black female tattoo artist in the U.S. and the first most prominent Black artist tattooing in Japan.
A noted practioner-scholar of her field, she is the founder of Little INKPLAY Shop®, where Imani practices modern traditional tattoo with a lineage-centered approach—blending ritual, ancestry, scholarship, and Afro-Kawaii design. Apprenticed under Chris Mensah and traveling globally to study world art traditions, she now extends her research across Sub-Saharan Africa to reclaim lost tattoo practices.
Her illustrative tattoos are instantly recognizable—specializing in fineline Japanese, Kawaii/Anime, Ornamental, Floral, and vibrant color tattoos on dark skin. Known for her custom lettering handstyles, trauma-informed care, and spiritual tattoo experiences, Imani’s work attracts clients worldwide.
As a cultural steward and founder of Black Tattoo Anthology®, she documents, preserves, and reactivates diasporic tattoo traditions. Through her creative community, Y.U.M.E. Create Club®, she helps multi-passionate creatives transform ritual and story into visibility, sustainability, and wealth.
Author of Shoppe Gal®: The Memoir, Imani’s mission is simple: the magic, lineage, and creativity we’re taught to hide are the very technologies that protect, guide, and sustain us and our futures.
FREE JOURNAL.
INK & Ọ̀ṢUN | A YEAR OF RETURN
A tattoo wellness magazine journal for your creative, spiritual, and ancestral reset.
Inside, you’ll receive:
12 Sub-Saharan tattoo-based wellness rituals
Guided reflection prompts
Monthly spiritual hygiene practice
Botanical ritual recipes
A framework for turning your year into a creative homecoming
This is your first step into the Healing Circle.
Ink. Ritual. Story. Philosophy.
WHY I DO THIS WORK
Because our bodies remember.
Because our creativity is ancestral.
Because Black tattoo culture is cultural technology — not trend.
Because your difference your Weird (creative inheritance) is the source of your Wealth (creative legacy).
Because returning to yourself is the beginning of legacy.
What My Clients Say ...
This experience was everything I didn't know I needed!!!
I can see a pathway forward to living out my purpose and creating deep impact, something that had been scared to do for a long time.
I feel so relieved, and now I don't feel as paralyzed as I did before we connected.
Dr. LaTanya White
Visionary Founder
Dynastic Wealth®
Imani is it! Her branding genius blew me out the water.
She came in and consulted with me and in just days took my brand to another level... She made my business flyers and site clear, colorful, in order, straight to the point and easy to navigate.
Imani is skilled!
Iya Sade Ajala
CEO & Spiritual Advisor
Oja Aje Botanica
Imani is so easy to work with...
I would recommend anyone looking for inspiration, advice or direction regarding creative ideas, that they should work with Imani K. Brown. My sister-friend is knowledgeable, supportive, fun and a caring spirit.
I can’t wait to see what I do next.
Marq Few
House DJ &
Culture Curator
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
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.
© 2026 Copyrights by Imani K Brown®.
All Rights Reserved.
Tattoo Lineage. Cultural Stewardship.
African Studies. Intellectual & Cultural History.
