Finally, somewhere to put your drink that isn't the mayo stand.
4.9 from 119 Steadi reviewsA flexible-finned base that holds your water bottle or your client's Coke steady on the cart top or back counter — off the sterile field, through a session that runs six hours.
Set up your station — $14.9590 days to run it through real sessions — off the sterile field, on the cart or counter — and it ships free either way.
Will it fit on the cart? A sticky note answers it — the test is below ↓
What's really going on
Every surface in the booth already has a job, and it isn't holding your drink.
Setup gives a job to every surface within reach — the tray is the sterile field, the cart won't hold still, the counter's too far to reach mid-session. None of them was left open for a drink. So it doesn't get one. It ends up wherever's left, and wherever's left is never good.
It's several steps from the chair, past the sharps container and the autoclave pouches — and reaching it mid-session costs a full glove change and a hand wash. So the coffee goes cold and the water goes untouched for hours at a stretch.
Prep guides tell clients to bring water and something sugary for the blood-sugar dip mid-session — then the chair offers nowhere to set either one, so it ends up in a bag or on a windowsill, out of reach exactly when it's needed.
There's no flat spot on an upholstered client chair, so a bottle rides wherever gravity leaves it — and every adjustment of the legrest or backrest sends it rolling toward the fresh stencil or the machine.
The cart gets pulled and repositioned all session, and a cup with nothing gripping it slides across the slick top on every tug — straight toward the power supply.
Nobody clocks it as a hazard while it's happening. It's a small workaround every session runs — until the day a slide or a wedge turns into a spill on the stencil, the cart, or the machine, and a workaround becomes a re-pour and a wipe-down.
You know the moment
The booth runs the same script, every long session.
Machine's bagged, caps are poured, the clip cord's sleeved — and the artist's iced coffee is already sweating on the back counter, because one sip right now means stripping gloves, washing hands, and re-gloving. It's still sitting there, watery, two hours later.
The client goes quiet and pale. The full-sugar Coke they were told to bring is zipped in a bag on the other side of the booth, and the session pauses while they climb out of position to dig it out.
The client reaches for their phone and the tumbler wedged against their hip tips — toward the fresh stencil on one side, the power supply on the other.
Gloves come off, bottles come out of bags and off the sill. When the machine buzzes back on, the half-finished drinks land wherever's flat — usually the cart top, one bump from the floor.
The tattoo's getting wrapped and the client finally reaches for the drink they packed away three hours ago — flat, warm, and barely touched, because it never had anywhere closer to sit.
One-note test
The fit test that takes less time than a glove change.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — same as the ceiling of what fits on the cart.
A standard sticky note is exactly 3 inches on a side — a fact about sticky notes that also happens to mark the ceiling of what fits.
Wherever it actually lives in the booth — cart top, counter, the arm of the chair — set the container down on the square and look at the bottom, not the rim.
Base sits inside the square? It fits. Hangs over the edge? Too wide. A tiny puck lost in the middle, under 2 inches? Too narrow.
No ruler, no spec sheet, no guessing between setup and the first line — one sticky note, one glance, with whatever's actually in your hand.
Fit, answered
The bottom inch decides what stays on the cart.
One rule covers every container on this list: a base 2 to 3 inches across settles in. Everything below follows from that.
- 40 oz Stanley-style tumbler fits
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- Sports drink bottle fits
- Straw-lid water bottle fits
- Slim energy drink can fits
- Iced coffee to-go cup fits
- Client's juice bottle fits
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
- Espresso cup too narrow
There's a floor as well as a ceiling — under 2 inches, a base rattles loose instead of gripping. The handled mug is the honest exception here: the base falls inside the range, but the handle lands exactly where a fin needs to close.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
Mechanics
Built for a booth that never sits still.
No clamp, no screw, no straight edge to bite — the wide, low base just sets down on whatever's clear, cart top or back counter, and spreads its grip across the surface instead of needing a lip to hook.
Flexible fins hold the container from the sides by its bottom inch, so a caster roll or a tug on the cart doesn't send it sliding toward the power supply.
An elbow catches the cart, a chair gets repositioned nearby — the base's low, wide weight rocks with the bump and brings the drink back level instead of letting the knock become a tip.
The other options
The booth's usual workarounds, and where each one breaks.
| A clamp-on desk cup holder | The Tattoo Station Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Finds a spot to attach | Needs a straight edge to clamp — the booth rarely has one | Sets down on whatever's clear, no edge needed |
| Grips a can or a tumbler | Most rings fit a can, not a tumbler | One grip, can to 40 oz tumbler |
| Survives a cart tug or bump | Reviews describe retightening the clamp screw and hoping | Rocks and settles, holds steady |
| Holds through a six-hour session | Reviews describe it loosening over a long shift | Holds steady through breaks and the reset between |
| Moving booth to booth | Unscrew it, remount it at the next station | Packs flat, sets down, works the same way there |
| Cart or counter space | Mounts off the edge — clears the flat surface | Takes a few inches of whatever's clear |
| Cost | A single-purpose gadget, only useful where there's an edge | One small piece, useful wherever it lands |
It satisfies the rule by making the drink useless — every trip there costs a glove change and a hand wash, so the coffee goes cold and the water goes untouched through a whole session, and the client has to climb out of position to reach theirs.
It proves the demand is real, but it's furniture — a stand that eats footprint in a rented booth, parks a drink at the client's side only, and adds one more surface to disinfect between appointments. The artist's own cup problem stays exactly where it was.
They need a straight edge to bite, and nothing in the booth offers one — the mayo stand has a rolled lip, the cart has none, the chair is upholstered. Reviews of these holders keep describing the same fix: retighten the clamp screw and hope. Many rings are sized for a can, not a 40 oz tumbler.
It solves the gloved-sip problem and creates a new one — the pedal and clip cord live down there, the stool's casters roll through it, and it's the one zone in the booth that gets mopped with disinfectant between every client.
Why more than one
Two identical tumblers. Whose sip is whose?
A client walks in holding the same 40 oz tumbler half the shop already owns, sets it down on the cart next to the artist's during a break, and now there are two identical drinks with nothing to tell them apart. It's not just awkward — grabbing the wrong one mid-session is exactly the kind of small mix-up a working booth can't afford.
Build your set
Give everyone their own.
Pick a pack, then give each one a color — so nobody has to ask which drink is theirs.
From the reviews
What buyers say.
Recent reviews of the Steadi, from every room and rig it lives in.
I have a tendency to spill my drinks and have two cats. This is one of the best things I’ve ever impulse bought. It works. It actually works. It’s a heavy, wide enough base that it is actually stable. My “spot” in the living room is near a somewhat-cushioned fabric ottoman, which is where I usually put my drinks. It’s
Dixie · 2026-08-30I love mine. I just wish the price was more appropriate. $15 seems a lot for a small plastic item. Reduce it to $9.99 and free shipping and I'll buy a few more!
Carolyn G. · 2026-08-27Excellent!
Brian S. · 2026-08-27Thank you for your service!
Brian S. · 2026-08-27It’s great love it
gilbert a. · 2026-08-24I never knock over my water at night anymore!
Customer · 2026-08-21All 119 reviews are for the drink base itself, collected across every place people use it.
Ninety days, however many sessions.
Run it through a month of sessions. If it doesn't do what this page says — on the cart, on the counter, with whatever's actually in the booth — email hello@steadilabs.com and it gets made right. No forms, no fight.
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Straight answers
Asked mid-session, answered here.
Does it actually work in a working booth?
That's the whole reason it's shaped this way. A wide, low base spreads across whatever's clear — cart top, back counter — instead of needing a straight edge to grip, and it holds there at least as well as it does on any hard, flat surface. The fins keep the container from sliding when the cart gets tugged or bumped.
Can I set it on the mayo stand tray?
No — that tray is the sterile field, and OSHA's bloodborne-pathogens rule keeps food and drink off it entirely, base or no base. This is for the cart top, the back counter, or anywhere clear outside the field, so the drink stays close without ever crossing onto it.
Will my tumbler fit?
Measure the bottom, not the rim. A base 2 to 3 inches across settles in — the 40 oz Stanley does. A handled mug doesn't; the handle is exactly where a fin needs to grip.
Does it clamp to the cart or the chair?
No. Nothing screws down, clips on, or bites an edge. It sits on top of a clear, flat surface and stays there through casters rolling and elbows bumping past.
What about the client's blood-sugar drink?
Prep guides tell clients to bring water and something sugary for exactly that reason — and the chair offers nowhere to put either one. This gives that drink a spot within arm's reach at the cart instead of zipped in a bag across the booth.
The cart gets pulled and repositioned all session — does that end it?
Movement is the whole design brief. The base rocks low and wide with a tug or a bump and lets the drink settle back down. It resists tipping — a full shove off the cart edge is still a full shove — but the ordinary jostle of a working session is exactly what it's built to shrug off.
How do I clean it between clients?
Rinse it clean, or put it in the dishwasher. One piece of flexible material, no seams — it takes the same wipe-down as the rest of the station.
Does it hold up through a six-hour session?
Yes — it's built to sit there for the whole booking, not get repositioned every hour. Once it's set on the cart or counter, it holds steady through breaks, refills, and the reset in between.
Who makes it, and where do I buy one?
It's called the Steadi, injection molded in small runs within about three and a half miles of Steadi Labs' shop in Orange, California. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 90 days to change your mind.
Made by
Molded with the same precision the booth demands.
The maker is Steadi Labs, a small veteran-founded company in Orange, California. It's injection molded in small runs — no hand-finishing, just a tight, repeatable process, the same kind of precision a six-hour session runs on. The mold, the material, and the color runs all sit within about three and a half miles of the shop. The people who make it read hello@steadilabs.com themselves, no call center in between.
Give the booth somewhere for a drink to go.
The artist's water stays within reach at the cart, the client's Coke stays within reach at the chair, and nothing crosses onto the sterile field.
Set up your station — ships freeCheckout is on steadilabs.com — Steadi Labs is the company that makes it.