Orlando tattoo show — Attraction in Kissimmee

Don’t let the Instagram fool you into thinking this was a successful show. Lemme give you a quick rundown of how bad this show was:

1. Organization of the show was an absolute hot dumpster fire mess. Registration alone ran well past when doors were opened to the public with people still setting up well past 3pm. People were getting booths smaller than what they paid for, or no booths at all. Like please explain to me how a group of 4 people are suppose to fit in a 2 person booth.
2. My group was misplaced in a booth we weren’t suppose to be in originally and we had to go to the coordinators to show them on their own map where it says they had us.
3. the lack of advertising for this show brought no one in. Foot traffic? Never heard of her. My entire trip down here (which mind you was 8 hours and of those 6 1/2 were in Florida) I saw a single billboard. But please keep telling us all how there was soooo much advertising there was. Artist we’re literally tattooing one another just to have something to do. Even the people who did come to the convention were asking why is it so empty (especially in the morning of Sunday when already 22 booths cleared out because of how awful Friday and Saturday was).
4. They refused to allow any artist to bring in food or drink, even a bottle of water wasn’t allowed cause yknow the host of the convention is trying everything they can to squeeze every penny out of all of us after paying hundreds of dollars already.
5. the banner is AI art. Please be so forreal with me why ANYONE would think that was the move to go. It’s not innovative or bringing light to a new “style of art” it’s cheap and disrespectful to every artist who came who put hours upon hours into our craft and work. Don’t be cheap and either do it yourself or hire an artist to make the banner.
6. The music. And the mics. On god, probably the worst part of the convention. It was so damn loud that even the 2 people I got the entire weekend to tattoo were complaining about the noise. By the end of each night I had a headache and dealt with such sensory overload, we were driving back to our Airbnb in silence, hoping the ringing would stop. Especially on Saturday night when, for whatever reason, there was a breakdance competition on the bare floor that everyone had been walking around on all day (which absolutely isn’t sanitary at all) the music was so loud and the host were so loud that even at a foot away I couldn’t speak to my client or friends. One artist spoke about how she ended up throwing up outside because of the music. Once again, a sign of absolutely no respect for anyone who attended the show.
7. speaking of sanitation, why were the armbands made of fabric? Y’all wanna go over the microphone and say how we’re all artist and we know better to not eat in our booths because we all took the BBP test and are all tattoo artist. Uhh have y’all? Cauuuse last I checked those lil fabric armbands are a MAJOR BBP violation. I ended up cutting mine off Saturday because they refused to give us new ones (or yknow maybe just give plastic ones that every other show uses for a very very obvious reason).

This is truly only scrapping the surface of why the show was awful for both artist and clients alike. I hope more artist speak out against this show so the public knows not to support it again if they do it again next year.

The only positive that came out of this show was meeting other artist and networking with other people who were also having a miserable time with us. Trauma bonding helped connect a lot of shops and artist.

We want our money back and we won’t be back next year to this trash tattoo show. Truly any show would be better than this cause this one was scraping the bottom...

I’d give them a 0 if I could. My group drove 8 hours and spent hundreds of dollars on the convention fees, supplies, food, lodging, etc just to twiddle our thumbs in the loudest environment I’ve ever been in in my life. There was NO foot traffic. There was no advertising. There was no organization from the convention as far as parking, registration, booth placements, contests, all the way down to just getting something printed. This was not a show for artists. It was a show to make money off of our booth fees. And besides all of that, the absolute worst part was the volume of the front stage. We looked at the decibels from when the host had the mike and it was equivalent to a motorcycle’s engine next to your ear. Getting up and over 120 db which is shown to do permanent damage to your ears. And it was ALL WEEKEND. Artists were leaving every night with headaches, migraines, so sensory overloaded that some were sick in the parking lot. Kids were crying, we couldn’t hear the words coming out of our own mouths, much less hear each other and our clients. Complaints were ignored. Most artists started packing up early leaving as early as Saturday. Sunday some artist were just straight up turning the speakers off. It was a nightmare. And speaking of kids, there were kids here. Which is fine, besides the fact that there was a huge table of sexy toys out, and a man had his whole nut sac out getting tattooed. Sanitation was a joke, especially with the cloth wrist bands that we couldn’t take off, but god forbid we have food or drinks in our booths. Our poor clients couldn’t bring a bag in bigger than small wallet. I heard someone wasn’t let in because of their medication? But dogs are ok. Please make it make sense. Over all, horrible experience for the artists, and for the people coming in wanting to get tattooed. But the show made its money off of us so their social medias will portray it to have been a successful weekend. We will not be back. And I’m sorry to myself and every other artist that lost money on this joke of...

If I could give -5 stars I totally would. I’ve been attending tattoo conventions as a client for almost a decade and this is my 3rd convention I’ve worked at as an artist, so I’m quite familiar with how they work. This was by far the worst tattoo convention I have ever been to.

The only reason me and my friends applied to work it was because of Sadfam’s anime takeover. I should’ve known the moment they backed out that this show was gonna be hot garbage but we attended anyways because we couldn’t get a refund. Absolutely do not trust these people, all they want is your money and to give you tinnitus.

The amount of foot traffic was embarrassing and definitely not worth the 8-9 hr drive we took. I only sold stickers, I didn’t make a single penny on a tattoo because the lack of foot traffic was absolutely insane. If they turned off the obnoxiously loud music/mic, you would probably just hear that stupid drone. I can write a grocery list of other stuff that happened but you can read the other reviews for that. Just know they’re greedy, they’re nasty, and they don’t care about your wellbeing.

I didn’t think it was possible to screw up THAT bad. My ears are still ringing and my voice is gone from screaming so people could hear me over the music.The only thing that kept us from just packing up and leaving on Saturday was the fact that we trauma bonded with so many artists and made so many new friends. We are never coming back. They need to issue a refund to everyone but I...