Uptown Ink

My brother and his girlfriend have gotten great tattoos from Cesar. I definitely trusted Cesar to do my first big tattoo after seeing his work. I told him I wanted two realistic sunflowers, I didn't look at the tattoo until 3 hours later when he was finished. My mind was BLOWN. Cesar does amazing work and for a very reasonable price! I'd recommend him to anyone and everyone in the bay, I drove 1.5 hours to get tattooed by him. I will be back again very soon!

At Uptown Ink, Cesar anxiously asks me again if I didn't want to split up the session.
"I'm afraid you're going to make this into a bad experience."

I hold firm and arrive on time for my appointment.
"You didn't bring anybody with you?"
"No... Was I supposed to?"
"Well, girls usually bring somebody with them."
He recounts the customers who bring 10 people with them and how he makes them rotate through the room.
One tatt is a quote on my side and another is of two doves. I told him I wanted "cute doves" and he drew them for me. My one of a kind doveys.

My piercer has no piercings. I inquire about them suspiciously.
"I took them out cause I was a bouncer for a while and I didn't want anybody to be grabbing anything."
Legitimate reason enough. Each cartilage piercing hurt more than the proceeding one: by the third one, I no longer felt the tattoos; by the fifth one I was mentally blowing off plans to gym later; by the sixth ring, I had decided, overdose or not, I am going to go home and drug myself with painkillers.

To sum up the experience, in 2 hours, I had gotten 6 piercings and 2 tattoos for $240.
Cheers, my friends, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
That brought my piercings up to 19. The artist and the piercer both told me I was going down in their books. I guess it was kind of nuts.
I trust them with my tattoos and piercings and you can too.

Very UNFRIENDLY and RUDE. When i first got here, there were two people just sitting down and staring at me. I thought they were customers so went up to the counter, waiting for the person to come out. Five minutes later, one of the people sitting at the table finally came up to me and asked me if he can help me with anything.

When i asked him some questions about piercing jewelries(tragus), he just gave me a blank stare and had NO IDEA what i was talking about. i just wanted to know what gauge it was and if they had extra ball to screw in since mine fell off!
When i rephrased the question and tried to explain it again, he just cut me off and didnt even bother to know and kept repeating the same answer over and over again.

I went there yesterday to give it another try because I mistakenly thought my friends got piercings there for a very good price. When I went in, I told him about what kind of piercings I want and asked him for the price. I went with two other girls, who also wanted piercings and thought we could get a good deal. Even before giving us the quote, he wanted all of us to sign the paper works and told us that he will tell us the prices after we sign them. He did end up telling us the prices but it was way too expensive. No discount either!!! we were going to get 9 piercings total!

It turns out that my friends got piercings from the shop block down called in to skin. I went there to get my piercings instead and I am happy that I did! so much cheaper and friendlier. any body piercing is $25. If you are a student, they knock off another $5.  

Two bad experiences in a row!! I will never come back here. Don't waste your time or your money here. Instead GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.