I've been here twice, once for a tattoo (my first) and once for a piercing. Both results were great, but I feel I could have gone somewhere else for my tattoo. They won't make appointments over email or the phone, so I drove out in April to make an appointment. I was told there was nothing open til June, but I was leaving the area in May, so they found a way to squeeze me in two days before my flight. While making the appointment, I gave them a copy of what I wanted (just two words, in script I wrote myself) in addition to a $50 deposit. But when I returned a month later, the artist (Diego) seemed highly reticent to using my original design. Instead, he printed out a page of generic script fonts and kept suggesting I use one of those. He said he "wasn't good" with text--uhhhhh...isn't that like, at least 50% of tattoo designs?
Anyway, I finally convinced him to use my original typeface. I guess I ideally wanted someone to fine-tune what I had done, but Diego didn't want to do that, so I just decided to go with what I had done. He was very friendly and thorough and the tattoo turned out great, but it was expensive ($150 for just two words in black ink, about 5 inches in length!) and having to haggle over design for my very first tattoo was kind of a bummer.
However, Allison the piercer is GREAT. Gentle but no-nonsense, pierced my rook perfectly. When she placed the mark I insisted it was too far in, but she promised that with the jewelry in it would look best that way. After she pierced it I was still skeptical, but she said to wait til it healed. Lo and behold, after healing it looks perfect. She really knows what she's doing.
Summary: tattoos are overpriced--go to NYC instead, piercings are great.
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