this is the worst place to get a tattoo in the whole country!! the way i was treated i would of preffered a homemade tattoo gun in my bathroom!!!!
i went a few months ago to get a simple matching tattoo with a friend who was moving across country. we walked in and they didnt even acknowledge us for the first 20 mins. once they did greet us they quoted us for the tattoo and the artist looked my friend up and down ( she is 120 lbs blonde and young) then took one look at me ( i am a big girl) and said i can only do hers you will have to ask a different artist. i was in shock as the other artist approached me and said i would love to do your tattoo.
this is not my first rodeo. i have over 10 tattoos and lots of peircings im not stupid. so i started to question the man.
come to find out it was his 1st night in that store so i said hell no!
then he showed me his work and begged me to do my tattoo. after questioning him and digging deep to see if i felt comfortable enough with him doing my tattoo i was not sure but it looked like it was my only choice
it took 2 hours after arriving before we got started. he was a biker looking larger older man. and when i told him i wanted my tattoo to be girly and pretty he laughed..... until he found out i was serious. it was unprofessional laying his arm on my boobs and commenting on them. he even shocked my face with the tatto gun! after my friends tattoo was all done he took an extra hour doing mine it was smaller then a doller bill. when he was done i was so relieved to get out of there i only glanced at the tattoo in the mirror.
when i got home i went through the usual cleaning process i washed it and put some aquafor on it but the next morning was my worst nightmere i looked at it in the mirror 1st thing in the morning. and my skin had bubbled and was gooie! i went to wash it with anti bacterial soap and my skin as well as the tattoo was wiping away with the soap all i could do was cry! i had to let the tatto dry out and scab ( less then 24 hours after) so all my ink didnt wipe away with the layers of skin above it ( i will add pics ) it was horifying i was contemplating going to the er it felt infected!
and to make things worse the stars ( that were from a stencil) were so crooked a toddler could of done it better and the s didn't even look like a s it looked more like a t or a f this is my body tattoos are forever i was fricken pissed!!!!!! so i waited untill it healed and went back into shop
this is when i was informed that the guy who did my tattoo got fired because he was doing heroin. yes people they have people on drugs working here and freely admit it. who tells a consumer that one of their artist who tattooed you was fired for being on drugs.
heroin people and then they laughed and said oooh man he must of been high when he did your tattoo because it looks like crap -_-
are you serious?!?!?!?!?! and i said well it needs to be fixed !! they then said come back in two weeks and i will fix it
two weeks went by i went back and the guy ( same one who would only tattoo my friend not me ) said oooh no i am not going to help you you need to talk to the manager. and he is off tonight
so it went on and on for 2 months i went back every time i had free time to be turned down because he felt like it wasnt healed enough ( it had been close to 4 months now )
so when the manager finally decided to fix the mistake his employee did i walked in and he reeked of pot!!!! he was so stoned he could barely talk! he took 45 mins to draw on my tattoo to see what he wanted to do to fix it. then the owner walked in i was so relieived to talk to her and then the unspeakable happened she wouldn't let me talk and told me justin (the manager) is going to help you dont worry he is my favorite son :/ ******
so he started to fix the tattoo and like i said i am not a newbie to this and i know what is supposed happen with cover ups touch ups all that stuff well he decided to go over the s over and over again blood was running down my arm and he was ( and im not exagerating) shredding my skin granted my tatto loooks much better now but now under it is a huuuugggeeee scar where he took his frustration out on me and the had the nerve to get snooty when i didnt tip him
i will pay people to not go here so noone ever has to go though what i went through
i am considering getting a lawyer due to the muscle and nerve damage that has been going on in my arm and sholder since the inncident
this place is a joke and you have been warned!