Five skulls and four reapers across five different styles.
Tattoo flash
Halloween Tattoo Flash
October is spooky-flash season, and plenty of shops run a Halloween flash day. These sheets bring the classics together — skulls, grim reapers, spiders, webs, snakes and scorpions across a range of styles — plus a sheet of small, quick designs in the spirit of Friday the 13th.
Spiders, a web, snakes, scorpions and a crescent moon.
Friday the 13th flash
Tattooing on Friday the 13th is its own tradition: shops put up a sheet of small designs, originally at $13 each, and work through a queue all day. The custom is usually traced to a Dallas shop in the mid-1990s and has spread across the US since. Prices have crept up, and many shops now add a set tip, but the idea is unchanged — small, quick, lucky.
The next Friday the 13th falls on 13 November 2026, then 13 August 2027. Our Friday the 13th sheet holds nine small designs in simple linework, the kind of pieces that work for a flash-day queue.
Making the most of a spooky sheet
The two Halloween sheets deliberately mix styles — neo-traditional, dotwork, illustrative, geometric, ignorant — so a flash wall has range rather than nine versions of one drawing. Each design prints at about 2 in (5 cm); for something bigger, open its own stencil page. Our skull, spider and grim reaper collections have every style.
Questions about halloween tattoo flash
- When is the next Friday the 13th?
- Friday 13 November 2026, then Friday 13 August 2027.
- Why do tattoo shops do Friday the 13th flash?
- It began as a way to turn an unlucky date into a lucky one, with small designs at $13. It has become an event: queues, quick designs and a sheet of flash made for the day.
- Do flash tattoos still need a stencil?
- Yes. The flash sheet shows the design; the artist still makes a stencil from the outline and places it on the skin. These sheets are the outlines.