This is a great place! If you are thinking about getting a tattoo, make an appointment and you won’t be disappointed! Clean, excellent décor and great music to go with being tatted, not to mention Shawn’s helpfulness at the reception. I asked to work with Troy, because I admire his bold and clean style. I wanted to have a dragon and a tiger on each side of my ribs, and I really liked the dragons and tigers in his portfolio. During our first consultation, we went over my thoughts and my allergy with the red ink… very annoying indeed. He examined the problematic red-inked areas carefully and said that he could still make the new tattoos be clearly seen from across the street with all the details. He delivered, hands down. So now I have both and am very happy. I love his work so much that now we are working on a flying eagle on my chest. For this originally unplanned tattoo, I exchanged e-mails with him to go over a few of my thoughts and he gave his feedbacks promptly. He is a straight shooter, and funny, regarding what would be good and gave me suggestions based on my thoughts. The outline of his design is just fantastic. Going for more pain in the coming weeks and cannot wait to see it finished.
The other thing about the place is the bond between the tattoo artists. I thought it is really cool that Fran, Andrew, or Dave would come over to look at my tattoos in progress and offered their opinions, and chatted with Troy about to do it this way or that way. And Troy would go over to their stations to look and talk about their work on their clients. The collegiality between them are refreshing. I felt like that I had been tattooed by all of them with their collaborative inputs. Their random bantering can be really funny… we had to stop once because I was laughing. I watched Dave’s ‘burning the boat’ video blog, and thought he is an amazing person to go through all the hardship and come out on top to be so successful. He is definitely top notch in his craft. I would have asked him to do my tattoos, but at the moment I am addicted to Troy’s bold and dramatic style over Dave’s astonishing artistic transformation of portraits. Maybe someday, but it is probably a long wait to get on to Dave’s book. Nevertheless, I thank him for creating a great environment, in which I enjoyed much of my ‘painful’ experience. While these guys are great artists, they certainly do stay humble. I recommend them 120%!!!