Clean, professional, highly sterile, exactly the type of environment in which you want to be…read moretattooed.

Let me just start off by saying, I truly would not recommend this place to somebody who is getting…read moretheir first tattoo and i am saddened to have to leave this kind of review. I went in on October 6th, 2022 for what was originally supposed to be a quote on finishing my hand piece. There was an obvious miscommunication because he (Levi, the intern) came out with a stencil after chatting for a bit about what i wanted. The miscommunication was my fault, i should've been more clear but i figured since i was there and he made the stencil already i was just going to go forward with it. I should add, nobody told me he was an intern nor were the other people there supervising what he was doing. I would've gladly allowed him to tattoo me if he had some guidance from another artist. First red flag, when he came out with the stencils i asked for them to be smaller sparkles. His reply after a long pause was "i can make it a little smaller but i don't want to make them any smaller since they'll be on your finger." I was already having really high anxiety about getting my finger tatted because of how much more painful it'd be and he was NOT making it any better with how he was talking to me and not being accommodating to what i wanted to be tatted on my body. i truly should have left after that but i thought i was reading the situation wrong so again, i continued. Second red flag, when he was showing me the stencils i asked how much it would be for the three sparkles and his response was "i don't know." He sounded really uncertain and confused about a lot of things throughout this whole session. He told me when i first entered the shop that the shop minimum was $100 which i was totally ok with, I just wanted confirmation so there was no confusion. I asked him a few times and his response was always "i don't know" until he finally made up his mind and decided to just price them at $100. Like i said, it was fine. Third red flag, when i explained to him i was having high anxiety about my finger being tatted and i didn't want to lay down (they have beds, not chairs for the clients.) i asked if i can stand while he placed the stencils, he gave me an uncomfortable reaction and said "..ok". All pervious artists have been very accommodating about this, by the way. i felt very anxious so we both decided the finger wouldn't be a good idea, so we stuck to my hand. Fourth red flag, when we were going to start he had the tattoo machine VERY loud. Even i knew that wasn't normal. One of the other artists from the back instructed him to the correct rhythm. sirens were going OFF in my head because i knew then that he definitely wasn't an experienced artist. Fifth red flag, he spent 40ish minutes on THREE sparkles. He wasn't lubricating my tattoo often enough so it felt horrible. He had an EXTREMELY heavy hand. He went over the same sparkles more than 10 times. The pain was unlike any of my other tattoos. I am fortunate enough to have had better experiences with other tattoo artists so i KNEW it wasn't right. He kept saying "almost done" and would keep going. My tattoos were so irritated for the next two days. The top three tattoos on my hand are from a different artist. They were done less than 24hrs before the bottom two that Levi did. The top ones healed within a week like normal (for my fine lined tattoos). The bottom ones are still trying to heal after two weeks. Not to mention they have bumps and inconsistent lines. It's shameful that the other artists in the building allowed him to tattoo without some kind of guidance. This review isn't so much on my tattoo because i know finer tattoos need touch ups, but it's on the artist.