I had a tattoo done by Jay. I came in for a cover up of a few year old pug. My first experience was coming in and Jay not being there, and having to wait for him to come in late.I wasn't really sure w... Read More
I had a tattoo done by Jay. I came in for a cover up of a few year old pug. My first experience was coming in and Jay not being there, and having to wait for him to come in late.I wasn't really sure what I wanted, so Jay recommended and urged a rose design to best cover it. Everything was okay, the first appointment was my first professional tattoo so after about 2 hours, I was in a lot of pain, and Jay recommended coming back. I came back in two weeks, and he informed that it wasn't healing the best because he forgot to ask if I had any metal allergies before using red tattoo ink, which he said contains metal. He did maybe 30 mins of work, saying that it wasn't healed enough, and I would have to come back.I came back again in four weeks this time, really hoping to just get it finished. Jay said he wasn't feeling well, and took a Benadryl. After 20 minutes of getting ready, and maybe 10 minutes of tattooing, he said he still really wasn't feeling well and was done for the day. I was really hoping to continue, but he would not. The next appointment I had work come up, and had to cancel the appointment. After this, we played phone tag for about 4 months before I was finally able to get an appointment a few days ago.When I came in, he was once again late, and seemed to forget he even made the appointment. After 15 minutes of waiting and 15 minutes of him getting ready, he brought me back. He started to complain that we should have completed it in one session, and sooner. He said there was just nothing else he could do. I do not believe that was all he could do. They are clearly parts of the roses that were not colored in. You can see the previous tattoo in a lot of places. This is not a finished tattoo. I do not feel completely at fault for the time it took to complete, yet at the appointment today, he seemed like he was blaming me for the time it took when he was one who was ending appointments early. I paid $300, with a $50 tip for an even worse tattoo than I started with. He told me that $300 would cover the entire thing. I do feel bad it took this long to finish, we were both at fault for that. But I do not deserve a bad unfinished tattoo. This is a permanent mistake on a very visible part of my body. Tattooing is not a joke and a life-long decision, But Jay treated this like it didn't really matter. I contacted Seth, the manager, and his only solution was me continuing to work with Jay, or have a coworker try to finish it. Both of those options made me very uncomfortable, so now I wasted $300 on an ugly unfinished tattoo. I would urge anyone thinking of coming here to look for other more professional places. Read Less