Diablo Ink Tattoo

Ricky lee has done some fantastic artwork on me several times, his designs are awesome. He put a very detailed design on my foot and every detail is perfect and he designed a large family of turtles on my leg that I love and get tons of compliments on. Thanks Ricky!

My dearest Jessie - how do I love thee? Here's some reasons why...

Me: "Hey, Jessie? I want some words and stuff on my shoulder, but I'm not really going to give you much of a theory to work with. Ready. Set. Go."

Jessie: *insert fantastically awesome idea here*

Me: - - Speechless - -

Jessie: "Let me just draw that up for you and make it look like the coolest thing in the whole entire world like the awesome artist that I am." (I might be paraphrasing...)

The point is - Jessie is fantastic, talented, lovely, and did some superiorly gorgeous lettering for four sort of unrelated quotes and was able to cleanly and beautifully tie it together when all I could come up with was "maybe a flower or something?" I get compliments on it daily, love showing it off, and am so, so, SO happy with it. Did I mention how crisp her lines were? Like iceberg lettuce crisp. Legit southern fried chicken crisp. Crisp to death.  

Other important factors of a tattoo artist/shop: Yes, it was clean. Yes, the other artists I met were lovely. Yes, I'll definitely absolutely positively be back in the not too distant future - basically as soon as I can supply her with yet another vague idea of what I want.

I've always loved Diablo Ink. I got a tattoo from here about 3 years ago and my tragus pierced around 6 months ago. Every time I went they always made me feel at ease and were super friendly. So when I was thinking about my next tattoo I went there to talk to them to see how much it would be. I got in and was greeted by a man covered in tattoo who was very friendly and greeted me immediately. As I started telling the idea of my tattoo, he started to get rude. Rude is a harsh word but I have no other word right now. As I started to talk to him he just got more snarky. I'll admit that I wasnt as prepared as I should have been but the guy that helped me gave off the generic tattoo guy vibe, the 'you're not cool enough vibe'. I really love this place that's why I'm giving 3 stars. They're really cool, maybe I just came in on the wrong day. I might try again in a few months when I feel confident enough to go back. This experience crushed my self esteem a bit.