Orlando Tattoo - Sandlake

Don’t come here for a piercing. I’ve been here twice for two different types of piercings and multiple times for tattoos. The first time I came in for a belly piercing, the girl at the front was chilling on the couch, acting like me walking into a tattoo shop on I-Drive at 9pm on a Friday night was the biggest pain in the behind. I told her I’ve had my belly pierced for 4 years and that I took it out for 3 days and now I can’t push it back through. She told me that she will try to push it back through and if not she will re-pierce it, which I had no problem with. I had also informed her that I’m very sensitive when it comes to my belly area, when it came down to it she grabbed the wrong gage size and even admitted that she didn’t have the correct size. She pushed the metal piercing through the top hole of my belly button but kept getting stuck once she came near the lower part. I kept telling her that it hurt, I had tears in my eyes, nearly kicked her in the face multiple times from the pain and she kept dismissing my pain, calling me dramatic and belittling me. At the end she told me to come back and she would flip the piercing around as she put the jewelry in the wrong way, and that I’m to scared to do it myself(with much more colorful language). She finally got it through but I was in such extreme pain I couldn’t even drive home. For the next week I was in extreme pain, i couldn’t sit wear tights pants, or even go to work. I asked my fiance to look at the bottom of it, come to find out now there’s two holes. She re-pierced my belly button with the jewelry. Best part is, she mentioned to not forget to tip my piercer if I can afford it. I come back in two weeks later to see my tattoo girl, and to get my other ear pierced, it’s a helix. I have 5 ear piercings on each ear, so I’m no stranger to the process. The lady is high out of her mind, she reeks of bad weed and trashy perfume. She keeps trying to allign that piercing with the one on my other ear, she calls in another artist to check as it’s not straight. I keep expressing that it’s not leved and she laughs in my face, I write off as a tattoo shop and it’s just how some people are. She’s not friendly at all whatsoever, she pierces my ear, using the wrong back and then doesn’t even clean my piercing one she’s done. Again extremely rude and unprofessional. 16 hours later my ear swells up, I have extreme throbbing pain, the right side of my face goes numb, my necks start hurting and I get a fever. At 5 am I end up going to the ER, I got an infection from the inside of my cartilage. They pulled the earring out, it took 4 people to take it out and lots of medicine. The ear back was so pushed through that my ear has cuts. Now I’m on antibiotics for the next two weeks, with follow up appointments and a high chance of getting cauliflower ear. Do not get your piercings here, two different ladies both were negative experiences.

Tonight marks my second time visiting this tattoo shop. Absolutely solid work. Myself and my girl were both walk-ins and they were more than accommodating. I can't recommend these cats highly enough and if I'm ever back in Orlando, I think I'll be seeing these guys again.

We were very pleased with the tattoos we selected. They work with us to pick out our own font and design. Our artists executed the tattoos flawlessly. Shout out to Beca and Team... we appreciate your artistic vision.