Okay guys, so here's the deal. I got a tattoo on my 18th birthday about a few months ago. The shop I went to was called Painless Wayne's Tattoo, let me tell you that it was the worst experience I have ever had. It was my first tattoo and I was so excited and nervous. But here's what happened...
I show up at the shop right on time, right on the dot. I sign some paper work, they didn't ask me for my id first off. But I over looked that just because I was so excited. Then my artist is running late, which really wasn't a big deal. I figured maybe 15 minutes or so would be okay with me. No, the guy was an hour and a half late. Super unprofessional. It was my birthday and I had this appointment made for weeks now, so I wasn't leaving without a tattoo. He finally shows up and asks me what I would like, so I pull up a picture on my phone of my design. He rejects that tattoo idea (I feel like his skills weren't up to par with what I wanted.) So he offers to draw up a different design, I liked his design even though it was a little too simple for my taste. It was still good. So he takes me back there and has his apprentice put the stencil on me. The gal put it on backwards -.- I have to tell my artist that it wasn't on the correct way and he had to do it himself while giving his apprentice an attitude. Again, super unprofessional. Anyways, there's more. He has two customers come into the shop wanting naval piercings. So he brings them back and pierces them right in front of me while I have this stencil on my leg. Should I add that there was another person there that was qualified to pierce them? So I had to wait even longer. Finally he asks me if the placement of my stencil is to my liking I say yes and he preps his inks and all that junk. I think I'm finally going to get a good experience. But I was so wrong.
Here's the part that made me so upset. He begins tattooing the outline. Of corse its my first tattoo and I wasn't ready for the pain and my leg begins to twitch. (Which is completely normal) And the guy tells me I need to stop moving. I couldn't make it stop because my body was reacting to the pain. So he gives me this smart ass attitude about it. After he finishes the outline he tells me to go take a breather. I go out and show my family and my best friend who I brought with me and saw my bloody leg -.- this tattoo artist had claimed to be tattooing for over 30 years and yet he is very heavy handed. I was bleeding a lot more than any other person I have seen get tattooed. So I go back in for color he does the same thing as he did for the outline giving me an attitude and putting me in more pain than I really need to be in. He is finally finished with my tattoo. I give it a look over and I am pleased. He didn't wrap it up. He told me not to get it wet, to not put ointment on it, and not to wash it. I know for a fact that this is an open wound and that it must be washed. plus I called into a bunch of other shops to check if I should be putting anything on it and all of them told me to put a&d ointment on it. Now looking at it after it is completely healed I see so many places that he made mistakes. The outline isn't solid, the color isn't completely filled in, and I am scarred because he has a heavy hand. My skin is raised up a lot and I cannot believe he messed up this "20 minute tattoo" that took a total of 3 and a half hours to finally complete. So if you are ever in Vegas and want a good tattoo do not go to Painless Wayne's Tattoo shop on Charleston.
I show up at the shop right on time, right on the dot. I sign some paper work, they didn't ask me for my id first off. But I over looked that just because I was so excited. Then my artist is running late, which really wasn't a big deal. I figured maybe 15 minutes or so would be okay with me. No, the guy was an hour and a half late. Super unprofessional. It was my birthday and I had this appointment made for weeks now, so I wasn't leaving without a tattoo. He finally shows up and asks me what I would like, so I pull up a picture on my phone of my design. He rejects that tattoo idea (I feel like his skills weren't up to par with what I wanted.) So he offers to draw up a different design, I liked his design even though it was a little too simple for my taste. It was still good. So he takes me back there and has his apprentice put the stencil on me. The gal put it on backwards -.- I have to tell my artist that it wasn't on the correct way and he had to do it himself while giving his apprentice an attitude. Again, super unprofessional. Anyways, there's more. He has two customers come into the shop wanting naval piercings. So he brings them back and pierces them right in front of me while I have this stencil on my leg. Should I add that there was another person there that was qualified to pierce them? So I had to wait even longer. Finally he asks me if the placement of my stencil is to my liking I say yes and he preps his inks and all that junk. I think I'm finally going to get a good experience. But I was so wrong.
Here's the part that made me so upset. He begins tattooing the outline. Of corse its my first tattoo and I wasn't ready for the pain and my leg begins to twitch. (Which is completely normal) And the guy tells me I need to stop moving. I couldn't make it stop because my body was reacting to the pain. So he gives me this smart ass attitude about it. After he finishes the outline he tells me to go take a breather. I go out and show my family and my best friend who I brought with me and saw my bloody leg -.- this tattoo artist had claimed to be tattooing for over 30 years and yet he is very heavy handed. I was bleeding a lot more than any other person I have seen get tattooed. So I go back in for color he does the same thing as he did for the outline giving me an attitude and putting me in more pain than I really need to be in. He is finally finished with my tattoo. I give it a look over and I am pleased. He didn't wrap it up. He told me not to get it wet, to not put ointment on it, and not to wash it. I know for a fact that this is an open wound and that it must be washed. plus I called into a bunch of other shops to check if I should be putting anything on it and all of them told me to put a&d ointment on it. Now looking at it after it is completely healed I see so many places that he made mistakes. The outline isn't solid, the color isn't completely filled in, and I am scarred because he has a heavy hand. My skin is raised up a lot and I cannot believe he messed up this "20 minute tattoo" that took a total of 3 and a half hours to finally complete. So if you are ever in Vegas and want a good tattoo do not go to Painless Wayne's Tattoo shop on Charleston.
