So, I've been really contemplating writing this but I think it's time. I went to get a tattoo on my wrist by a really sweet and nice guy, I'm horrible with names so bear with me, and it came out decent. I went back there to get my second tattoo which was a memorial piece to my father who passed, a week or so later i realized that one of the pool sticks on the tattoo is significantly more pointy than the other on the same tattoo. Which is really a shame because I was so happy to get it. The second thing that I have to write about is the piercing experience. oh my god it was horrible. I have gotten a few very painful piercings done already at another shop such as a double forward helix and a daith. NOTHING could have prepared me for how much pain I was put in when I went to Monarch. I hadn't noticed that my upper forward helix's piercing had fell off a few weeks prior and i needed to get the piercing re-opened. This guy at Monarch pushed a DULL earring INTO MY PIERCING HOLE FOR OVER 5 MINUTES UNTIL IT POPPED BACK OPEN. no needle. nothing but a dull earring being pushed into my ear by a grown man with all of his strength. Then, he put a BUTTERFLY BACKING ON IT and it was so tight that my ear was actually swollen around it?!?! Then, he pierced my nose and when I mentioned I was scared he told me to "suck it up." Then proceeded to pierce it SO SLOWLY and left the needle in my nose for over 5 minutes then proceeded to give me the wrong type of stud to put in it. I am just fuming thinking about that day. Okay rant over. Don't go here tbh. Only gave it an extra star for the nice tattoo guy and the price for my tattoo. read more