Simply Ink

This place was absolutely horrible.  I went here to simply change my navel bar to a longer one.  First thing, I walk in, and there are children laying all over the couches napping.  A baby is sitting on the floor.  The front desk is unhelpful and uninformative.  The venue looks nice aesthetically, but, other than that, there isn't anything nice I would say about this place.  I wish I could give it no stars.

I decided to go ahead and just change the bar here- I was already here, how bad could it be? I was wrong... it was HORRIBLE.

I sit down, and McKayla (sp?) immediately takes out my piercing.  But, she doesn't put a retainer in it at all.  For 15-20 minutes, she fights with a Teflon piece that she wants to put in my piercing.  It doesn't work.  In addition, she had just retrieved this teflon from a plastic drawer.  I was apprehensive that it was not in a sterile, autoclaved package.  I asked her about this, and she said, "Trust me, it's clean."  THAT IS NO WAY TO CONDUCT A PIERCING BUSINESS.  I have ~10 piercings, and never have I encountered this before.  That is rule #1 of ANY reputable piercing or tattoo business.

She decides to bend a straight bar herself, and reaches up for the jewelry.  A whole BOX of loose jewelry falls on the ground and she is absolutely disgruntled.  A child runs into the room and exclaims, and two others in the shop come into the room and hand pick the jewelry off of the floor.  I felt extremely uncomfortable with this because of (1) sanitary reasons (2) the fact that my shirt was up.

She then takes a q tip dipped in alcohol and vigorously cleans my piercing, just pressing it and squeezing.  Having a navel piercing that was just done ~4 days ago, it was extremely sensitive and painful.  This did not help.  

She finally bent the straight bar (with pliers that I did NOT see come out of an autoclaved package.  The jewelry did come out of an autoclaved package), and tried to insert it into my piercing.  NATURALLY, it did NOT want to go back in.  My skin had already started to heal this piercing.  She had to FORCE IT BACK IN, and it HURT.  She said, "this is going to suck."  That's why you put a retainer in, to hold it in place.  My goodness.

After she finally got the piercing in, she took the bloody q-tip from earlier and wiped around the piercing.  Seriously?  I paid $10 and got out.  Halfway through, I had already wanted to leave but wanted to be polite and nice.  However, I wish I would have just told her to put my old jewelry back in and then never come back.

Worst experience ever.  Please save yourself the hassle and don't go here.

My navel piercing is now swollen, red, and 10x more painful.  I think what was done today might actually HURT me and lead to infection.

I wish more than anything I did not come here today.

OH, also, I did not sign any disclaimers or waivers today.  That is usually also a norm.