Ink Therapy Tattoo

Finally getting around to my reviews. Got to give good ones where they are due!  

This is their new location and is being enlarged and remodeled. My husband and I have had several pieces done by the very talented Sirrus. We are very happy with our visions becoming real ink on our skins. Sirrus free handed our designs. He worked with me on fine tuning a tattoo design on the second session of a 2 session piece and I could not be more satisfied.

I might be tempted to travel to Sirrus if I were to have more work done.

I went to Ink therapy for a commemorative tattoo and was seriously unsatisfied.  A friend has gotten two tattoos from the artist Derek and I enjoyed the color and overall tattoos.  I decided to use him as my artist for this very special tattoo (this is my 7th).  Derek was extremely unprofessional with personal medical information and charged me more for my tattoo based on the circumstance.  The coloring of the tattoo was not what I wanted- I wanted an outlined piece with shading inside.  I received a quick work up with a mag and little highlights on the tips.  This tattoo scabbed worse than any of my large full colored ones and the spots that have healed are more dull than ones that I've had for years.  Overall terrible experience, will not be returning to this shop.

I went with my friend to Ink Therapy for her 18th birthday to get her first tattoo. Her appointment time was 6:15. At 5:15 she got a call saying something came up and her appointment would now be 7:30. We weren't concerned, things come up, no big deal. So we got there at 7:30 and were told it'd be at least another hour. At nine a asked the counter girl if she could get an estimated time because it would only be my friend's birthday for another 3 hours. His answer: "Not my fault, not my problem." At this point, we were both irritated. Her appointment was now 2 hours later than anticipated and her other plans were being postponed. Finally, her artist was ready for her at 9:45, a full 3 and a half hours late. And boy o boy, was he friendly.

He started by saying he wouldn't hesitate to kick me out without legitimate cause. While working on her outline, on her ribs, she experience some minor involuntary muscle spasms. Not her choice, not preventable. Justin, the artist, then told her that if she twitched again, he'd kick her out with half an outline. When he was finally finished, my friend was in tears from being threatened and insulted and I was livid. He said, verbatim, that "septum piercings are so ugly and girls with them are gross".

Hi, my name's Julia and I have a very obvious ring in my septum.

He finished up with aftercare and calling me annoying. The only thing I said the entire time was telling my friend that the tattoo was coming along well, looking good, and that she could handle it. Good to know he finds compliments and encouragement annoying. Maybe he'll like this review better.

The result of this? She's going to another shop for her color and, despite the quality of their work, I will never send anyone there to be insulted and ridiculed.