Painless Steel Tattoo & Body Piercing

I went here after searching many tattoo artist in the pacific northwest and this was closer than Seattle. I went down and made my appointment for a few weeks out to give the artist time to work with the references I had provided. I called a few days prior to my appointment and asked if I could come down and see the sketch to approve it. When I called the artist was out sick and wouldn't be back till the day before my appointment... being someone that got easily sick I understood.

When I showed up for my appointment I found out the artist had not even STARTED on the picture yet. She no longer had the references I had printed out just some small sketches the person who took the original information had done. My friend and myself sat there for an hour waiting for her to draw up the tattoo and I was HORRIFIED with it.

I had wanted wording from the LOVELESS poem and three very iconic game swords and feathers that would tie into the wording. For those that know Final Fantasy 7 I was looking at the buster sword, Masamune and Rapier, three very iconic and three very different swords. She told me she had lost the references so I showed her on my phone. Swords are very different in size and what she came back with were three swords of identical size that looked like a bloody 2 year old had tried to draw them!

Because I had already spent so long down there and the wording looked fine, so I told her to do just the feathers and the wording. Now that the tattoo has healed the wording is blown out and some of it is hard to read. I really wished I had just walked out..

Even if I still lived in Washington I would never go back. I'm going to try and get it fixed if I can find a good artist to do it.

I am incredibly impressed with Painless Steel! I called prior to going and the lady I talked to took her time answering my questions and made me feel welcome. I was still nervous to go into a tattoo shop by myself, but felt better after just driving by.  It is very clean and professional looking with a bright, wide open foyer.  

I was greeted immediately by Jer who is very friendly and smiled at by the other people behind the counter.  I told them what I wanted and it took less than 5 minutes before I was in a room waiting to have my tragus pierced.

Jer is AWESOME!  Seeing that I was nervous, he offered to get another piercer (lady) to hold my hand.  They were both amazing and conversational taking my mind off the procedure.  The piercing was not near as uncomfortable as I'd anticipated and is healing well. The room and entire place is clean, bright and sanitary.

One week after getting the piercing I called again to ask some questions about what type of jewelry to look for when it is time to change.  Jer is very patient and knowledgeable - I recommend him!

Oh, my husband had his labret pierced later the same day and had just as positive of an experience. If we ever have other tattoos or piercings we're going back here!

I got my tragus pierced here in November and it's healing wonderfully. I had a great experience at this shop. My friend and I came in on a tuesday evening and there was only one other customer there. It was a really relaxed, chill atmosphere. The person at the counter greeted us and was helpful and knowledgable about the jewelry and helped us pick out the right stuff. The piercer (Jer) was awesome! He was super cool about how nervous I was and talked me through the whole thing. Its reassuring that they keep everything super clean here. The only thing downside was that I wasn't expecting the total to come to about $80. But it's all worth it, because I got the highest quality jewelry and an excellent piercing!