The Baltimore Tattoo Museum — Attraction in Baltimore

I moved to PA, but when I lived in Canton, i always had my Tats done here by Adam or Dave. I have no complaints about their tats work.. In fact, I've recommended them to many people up here in PA, and in Maryland. Three of my friends got their tats done here , and they were very pleased with the beautiful art work, and the original designs that they helped us out with. Adam has done 3 of my tats, and also did repair work on two of them that I was stupid enough to go elsewhere to have gotten originally. Adam is an amazing artist, and for some unknown reason, I feel practically no pain when he works on me, and he's great at making you feel comfortable, and being a huge music person myself, I really enjoy the music he plays while he's working on me. BUT, I have a huge complaint about the two piercings I had done there The first was about 6 years ago, and I brought my mother with me, because she wanted to get her upper ear pierced to celebrate her 75th birthday. Two days after my ear piercing done there, the ring fell out, in spite of the fact that I was being extremely careful to avoid that area when I was showering, etc. I went back to them, and they replaced the earring, BUT changed me again for the earring, even though the person replacing it had told me that the earring wasn't closed completely, which was the cause of it falling out. Because I'd been a long time customer there for other things, I paid, smiled and politely left, AND even returned to have two more tats done, one by Dave, and the other by Adam who are both fantastic tat artists, BTW! Here's the recent big problem which happened on September 29th, 2017 which is the reason I will NOT be returning to them now, for ANY future work. Once again- to celebrate my mother's birthday-her 82nd one- I drove back down there from Pennsylvania - where I now live-and we both wanted to get our noses pierced with studs. We both went into the room, and I decided to get mine pierced first, before my mother had her's done, and it didn't go well at all. The piercer ( who's name I will not mention, out of respect, and professionalism), was having a difficult time, and in fact he was making some comments, and apologies to me while he did my piercing. I was cool with it at the time, and because several years ago, I used to pierce my friends' ears, and I'm a very patient person, I thought nothing of it at the time, and told him no problem, even though it took him several minutes, and was a little more painful than any of my other piercings. Next up was my mother, but she had no problems while he pierced her nose, and it took him half the time to do hers as he took doing mine. Anyway, we paid about $50 for each piercing, then I gave the piercer $30 cash- $15 for each of us( then later found out that my mother had also given him a cash tip, not knowing i'd already tipped him $30- Hey, that's a great tip, and, just for the record I always give very generous tips) Ok, well this is a pretty lengthy comment, so I'll get to the "problem" now. I followed all the post piercing cleaning instructions etc, but the next morning while CAREFULLY washing my face , the nose stud -which he had problems putting in- fell out ( just like the ear piecing a few years prior). I had to quickly find a piercing place up here in PA to put the stud back in very soon that day. When I went to a tat place up here in York which had been recommended to me after the stud fell out, the very cool piercer there told me that the angle the tat museum piercer put in my stud, was not done at an angle that it should have been, and she needed to re do my piercing at a better, most commonly done angle and area. She redid the piercing, took half the time as the first piercer did, AND ONLY charged me $10 for a piercing that the tat museum charged us $50 a piece for, so obviously she wasn't trying to rip me off! When I drove back down to ask for a refund for the botched piercing, the rude guy working there said no way, and that his piercer had done more piercings than anyone in PA!!!!' Saw...

This was my first piercing.

I have heard good things and bad things about this place. For me everything was a horrible experience.

The place is clean but a museum, it is not.

Customer Service is very lacking and judgmental eyes stare on you as soon as you walk in the door. I wanted to get two piercings. A PA and a septum. They all wanted to pass me off after I asked more information about this. Finally they left me with someone who was just as cold and passive as everyone at the desk.

I later found out it was the co-owner.

He was preparing for me and I signed the standard release to which they immediately brought me a bill. I told them nothing had been done and I would sign after the fact but they refused. I wasn't sure if this was the norm so I signed anyways.

I said I would be sizing up and wanted to start with a larger ring only for them to again scoff and say that isn't how we do things around here. In my mind I was assuming that this is the norm.

Getting into the "room," I saw rings had already been chosen for me without my consent. There was no reassuring, no calmness, "just sit here and breathe." No warning came from the PA but the septum he said to breathe out properly.

After it was all over the septum was crooked and had to be fixed.

The PA was giving me the most trouble and I found out that the standard size they do is the lowest safest recommended size. Besides the fact that when I got hard it hurt a lot. I asked if they had bigger diameter and they said no and said they usually do not have a problem.

Sadly people are different sizes but to them they do not care.

After all was said and done I refuse to go back there even to have the ring changed once a larger diameter comes in.

This may sound like a rant but do NOT go there for any piercing unless you know everything. For new...

Had a terrible experience. Would rate this place zero stars if Google allowed that. The staff was very unprofessional and rude. I wanted to get a tattoo on my hand, and the artist immediately said that he wouldn't do that for me specifically, because I don't have many tattoos (which was an incorrect assumption, for my tattoos are small and in hidden places). Moreover, rather than admitting that small/medium cursive fonts and line art are outside of his skill range, the artist was very dismissive and acted as if the requests were ridiculous and impossible. Instead, he wanted to make the tattoos extremely large and with no detail for the line art heart (without the details, the heart would literally just be a strange oval). He also insulted the tattoo design. The hypocritical part is, while he refused to do the tattoos for me and my sister, he did a tattoo for my friend that was with us, in an equally small, cursive font. It felt as though a lot of discrimination was taking place, based on race and gender. Would never recommend this place to anyone, as we went to another tattoo shop the next day and they were very kind and easily did our tattoo designs as requested. Baltimore is filled with tattoo shops, honestly go anywhere else but The Baltimore...