Red Sky Studio

I've gotten symmetrical fleur de lis on my collar bones here and they are wonderful. The great thing about this place is that they all have experience as artists before they became tattoo artists. So your not going to just pick off the wall here, they really want to get creative.

I hate it when yelp deletes my reviews! Those are obviously all of my pictures yet this comes up again as a place to review, I digress.

Anyway, pretty cool shop if you are hanging out outside there is music blaring to welcome you and when you go inside it is a pretty big tattoo parlor. Employees are pretty friendly and it is not just tattoos, you can find cool t-shirts here as well. Amazing display of tattoo art and portfolios, you could probably sit here for awhile just gazing through each of them.

Very clean shop, check it out.

A mixed bag.  My son got his first tattoo there, a rather large piece, and it turned out beautifully.  Some flaws, but nothing that can't be fixed later.

I, however, went in for a very small piece.  This was not my first piece and I take excellent care of my tattoos.  I knew the day after I got it that it wasn't going to turn out well.  The skin started splitting ( could see through to raw skin).   There are several areas where scarring occurred.  The arm has seen 37 years of sun and so the skin is not as pristine as a 20 year old's.  Perhaps this was not taken into account as it should have been and the skin couldn't handle it.  However, I have a rather large tattoo on my other arm, from another artist in California just a year before, and I had none of the same problems.  

The artist, in spite of the deposit given to him to draw up the design, both times was unprepared when it came time for the appointment, having not finished, or in my case, even started on the design.  

All of the artists here have wonderful portfolios.  No flash, which is absolutely in their favor.   However, my son and I both will not be returning, neither for new work nor for my touch up.  One great tattoo and one not so great from the same artist doesn't exactly encourage confidence, and we don't feel comfortable jumping from artist to artist within a studio.  

I'd suggest anyone coming here for a simple, less-than-challenging piece make sure the artist isn't just willing but grateful for the job.  A single dot of ink should be done with the same care as a full sleeve.