For the past few months I'd been taunting my partner about getting a tattoo because they had wanted to but they are a super wholesome looking person. So kind of a whim to get it done on thanksgiving day, I called up a bunch of places after doing some research and this shop was open.
It's just what you expect of pro tattoo shops run by grown up punk/progressive rockers. Pinup flashes cover the walls and there's some japonisme here and there. I have to say the bearded dude at the desk weren't the most informative when I asked them what kind of ink they were using (to which they giggled "uh... good ink"), despite having a number of piercings before I suppose they could have been more reassuring to antsy tattoo virgins like my partner ha!
Anyway, it was all very chill and dandy. I have no complaints about the cleanliness or skill of the owner/artist, who had been doing tattoos for 10 years. Paul disinfected all surfaces between tats and gave good recommendations of the type of figure to get instead of the floating cartoon head I was thinking about. Then again, I'm a pretty easy person and didn't require too many mods to the stencil he drew, but he was very open to redrawing whatever needed to change. I like his no-bs attitude about healing which was to keep things dry and clean. There was no upsell of healing gels or whatever.
We had a good conversation during the tat and he was good about not touching other surfaces while he had gloves on. I just wish they weren't so offhanded about the details at the beginning.