Boulder Ink

Incredible experience!  This shop is great.

First walked into Bolder Ink for a consultation and immediately found atmosphere to be jovial, welcoming and friendly.  Based on my son's design idea, Brian was recommended.  Brian came out to talk to us and was very patient with our questions, sitting with us for 30-45 minutes just to make sure we understood the process and design options.  
Two days later Brian had drawn up a perfectly sized and detailed rendition and my son approved the design.  
We were at the shop for about three hours for the tattoo appointment and it was an absolute blast.  Along with being an incredibly talented artist, Brian is hilarious.  He's just a great guy to be around and has lots of entertaining stories.  He wasn't the only one either.  The manager is a witty, amiable guy named CJ, and he and the other artists and even other clients made the three hours go by quickly.  Music was playing, there was dancing, singing and overall the mood in the shop was that of a collection of professional artists that really enjoy their job and have a good time...and make sure the customers enjoy the experience. We even got cupcakes.
The tattoo's on my son's calves are beyond his greatest expectations.  Brian did an amazing job - the shading and detail is extraordinary.  I highly recommend Brian and this shop.

Soo.. I came here to get a simple tattoo, some writing on my ribs.
I went in for an initial consultation, met with an artist, who to be quite frank treated me like I didn't know what I was talking about and shut down a lot of my ideas. Nevertheless I put down a $60 deposit for him to draw up some designs and came back 4 days later. He did nothing I asked of him, got my quote totally wrong, and drew me some picture that we never talked about. His artistic skills were mediocre and I left feeling disappointed. Definitely will keep searching for a better tattoo parlor.

This summer I took a trip to Colorado and decided that I wanted to get a tattoo while I was there. My sister had gotten her first tattoo a couple years back at Bolder Ink (which is an awesome piece btw), and so I looked into it and found out that it had a reputation for being one of the best studios in Colorado. I wasn't able to have an actual consultation since I was only going to be in Colorado for a week and was pressed on time, but I called them a few times in the week leading up to my appointment and they were really helpful. When I walked in on the day of, I was impressed from the beginning. The environment was really chill and a lot more comfortable than what I was expecting.

The guys there were really fun to be around. Pee Wee was my artist, and while he was sketching his design on me, he explained that this place wasn't like what'd you'd see on LA Ink with super bad ass, intimidating artists, but instead that this was a dorky place. The conversations that were going on in the room while Pee Wee was working honestly were really dorky but also really hilarious. They kept me pretty entertained during my two hours of pain. It was also really cool that everyone in the studio would kind of just walk in and out of each room to talk to each other and take a look at what the different artists were working on. One member of the staff that really stood out was CJ because he came in like every half hour to check in and see how I was doing, which was really thoughtful.

The only thing that was kind of weird was that I found out that Pee Wee only accepted cash around halfway through my appointment, which kind of caught me off guard because the front window had all the different credit card logos stuck on. Everything ended up fine because I was able to quickly go to an ATM and come back to pay him, but I thought that it should have been made clear to me before he started working on the tattoo.

Overall, I absolutely loved the experience, I absolutely love my tattoo, and I would definitely go back here for another tattoo in the future if I end up visiting Colorado again.