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| - I am a heavily tattooed individual. I have been tattooed all over the world from North America to Central and South America to United Kingdom and so on.
Generally, the person getting tattooed is the one who's responsible for making sure they get a good tattoo by a good tattooer.
I was referred to this particular tattoo parlor by a fellow yogi who had a small tattoo on her body. I mainly have very large tattoos, but was interested in getting something small and sentimental. A lot of tattoo artists aren't into providing this type of tattoo which is understandable because they also don't pay that well.
June of last year, I went to see the person who tattooed the girl I had been referred by to see if I could get the tattoo that I wanted.
Luckily, she was still working there and I was able to get the tattoo.
While she was tattooing me we talked a bit and she let me know that she had come from Manitoba, was passing through Calgary, and would finally end up in Vancouver.
After my tattoo healed I noted that there were some blowout areas. These are common in tattoos, common in more people than some. I wasn't worried about the blowouts I just wanted to go back and have the tattoo touched up. Every tattoo company on earth will or should provide free touchups on any of their work.
I called in and left a few voicemail messages for anyone there noting that I would like to come in for a touchup. The shop was closed for a couple weeks. I waited patiently for about a month to get a phone call back after being persistent.
I did finally speak to one person who called me back, female, and stated that they weren't sure if my particular tattooer was still going to be in town, however she was returning in about a month or so so to call back and have her do it then.
I called back just over a month from the last phone call I had made, and was basically met with shrugged shoulders over the phone.
No one offered to have the tattoo touched up for me because no one at that studio had given me the tattoo.
I was left with the feeling that I have to somehow play Carmen Sandiego and find my tattooer to get her personally to fix it.
This isn't really how a tattoo parlor works. I have so many tattoos and have had so many touchups and so many coverups I know what I'm talking about.
I've never had a tattoo parlor refuse the touchup before. Especially one this small that would take about 10 minutes.
I explained all this over the phone but here I sit over one year later with a blown out tattoo and a reminder to never return to that particular tattoo parlor and to let everybody know about the truth of the type of service I received there.
I even got a referral to a laser removal company from them and went and spent a lot of money starting laser removal on another tattoo. And I'm sure that there was some kind of referral bonus for the studio there too. I feel pretty slighted.
I'm just reviewing it today as I'm going to cover up the tattoo that I had partially laser removed.
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