Pain and Pleasure Tattoo Gallery — Attraction in Sandusky

The people there were very nice and friendly. I walked in to get my Industrial pierced and was sitting for less than a minute when an employee started to service me. The only think i didnt like about it was that I never caught his name (I called and asked, his name is Tony) The guy took me back into the room and he started the process. He let me pick which color bar I wanted in my ear and he checked to make sure that I liked the two piercing spots, then beginning to pierce my ear. He didn't talk through the process with me but he did offer for my friend who'd come with me to watch and video it, but she was too squeamish. After it was over, I asked him about a healing cartilage piercing on my other ear and he told me the exact condition of it (it was still half pierced and there was a keloid-an excess of cartilage/a build up of hard matter-on the back of the piercing). He them offered to repierce it free of charge (I now realize that he is the owner which is probably why he could do that)! Ecstatic, I let him do it and he offered me advise on switching out the back of it and on which brand of earing is the best as well as how to save any of my piercings should they become infected. In all, it was a wonderful experience. I have gotten my lobes, industrial, and cartilage pierced there, my sister has gotten her lobes and rook pierced there, and my sister in law (a tomczyk, she wrote a positive review too awhile back) got a tattoo there and we all have been pleased with the results.

SOOOOOOO......My mind has very much changed. The person who pierced my industrial did the bottom piercing too low and the bar CUT INTO MY EAR AND ACTUALLY LEFT A SCAR! I had them take out the bottom piercing (kept the top one and its all healed now). After it was healed, I had them repierce it (different guy did it and he did it for free since they'd messed up the first time). He still did it too low! Though, thankfully, it wasnt cutting into my ear anymore. The bottom piercing wasnt healing well so i went to a more professional tattoo/piercing place (Mainstreet Studios) and they changed out the bar to a better metal, shorter bar (custom fit to my ear), and smaller balls on the end. They said that my ear wasnt wide enough for an industrial and that any good studio should've either refused to pierce my ear or custom bent the bar for me to have an industrial. So basically Pain and Pleasure is a place that will give you what you want, even if it's not best for you. Oh and my sister who got her eyebrow pierced at Pain and Pleasure is having trouble with her piercing despite cleaning it because they dont use a very high-grade metal for...

I went in Friday, March 8th unexpectedly because Sandusky Tattoo, which is where I usually go because of a friend who works there, was closed. So, I went to Pain and Pleasure because I had never heard anything negative about them but when I came in I was literally shocked by how I was treated. I told the guy what I needed and he kept asking me the same question, “so what do you need” in return and after the third time telling him I simply needed a new septum exactly like the one in my nose he then stopped beating around the bush and said “well ok but what gage are you” I said idk that’s why I’m here I can’t order septum rings online because I don’t know, all I know is that I didn’t want my nose with a huge gage just a normal piercing, and with the biggest attitude he replied “well all piercings have a gage” as he rolled his eyes, and I told him I understood that, I was just simply saying I didn’t want my nose gaged for something huge I just got the normal piercing so whatever size that is? He finally hands me a septum ring and doesn’t ask if I need anything else just starts ringing me up and I was like, well I was actually going to see if I could get assistance putting it in, again he rolls his eyes and tells me to follow him where I begin to feel even more awkward than before because he keeps asking, “what’s wrong with the one you have, it’s perfectly fine”, “why do you need help putting this in”. Clearly he didn’t want to help, what I experienced was beyond rude I almost felt like I was bullied n I couldn’t help my mind from the wondering if it was because I was black? But then I learned I wasn’t the only one when I talked to a friend about her experience and she had the same issue when she didn’t kno what size her gages were for her piercings. I will never step foot in that place again due to the sole fact that I felt so unwelcomed as a person/guest/and customer who was just trying to give my business to that...

Michelle came in after hours to pierce my VCH, which was really awesome of her. She was so friendly, and everything was so clean and professional. I was excited to get the piercing, so I left happy and grateful that she came in on her day off to make it happen.

However, after having a good look at the piercing when I got home, I realized it was pierced much too shallow. It looked like it would be easily ripped out because not much tissue was in it, especially in that delicate area. I contacted her the next afternoon, and she asked me to come in for her to check it out. She took out a ruler and measured the amount of skin in the piercing, which she said was 1/2cm and adequate for the piercing.

I told her I was worried it was unsafe the way it was placed, and I asked her to remove it. The shop owner would not refund me, nor did anyone else come in to see if the piercing was actually placed correctly. I was offered credit to have it re-pierced. Michelle was very sweet about it, but I am pretty upset that I’m out $150. Having this redone at the same shop puts me at risk of getting this painful piercing performed incorrectly a second time, and I (think understandably) don’t want to risk it.

Everything online, including published journals from the APP, state that a minimum of 3/8” of tissue is required for this piercing to be performed safely. My piercing had barely half of that amount of tissue, and with 16g jewelry even though 14g is the professionally recommended minimum gauge for this piercing. It was inevitably going to migrate and/or be ripped out and cause damage.

I would not recommend this shop to anyone based on this experience. I’m sure Michelle does amazing work on other parts of the body, but I feel like I was a guinea pig with this particular piercing and then ripped off when it wasn’t...