Black Diamond Collective — Local services in Alexandria

Very Scary Experience... I've had my dimples pierced twice before. This is not my first rodeo. Aaron was my piercer. The visit was professional, I expressed my concern for the jewelry being long enough as this was a problem before with a different piercer. He assured me he had never used anything longer than what was prepped. Fine. Piercing felt great. Bought some mouthwash and left. About an hour afterwards I started to feel severe discomfort in the left cheek. It felt like it was rubbing against something in my cheek and when I would smile, that side of my cheek would twitch! I also started having very ABNORMAL swelling in that one cheek. It was swelling into my neck and eye area.The other cheek is healing just fine.This was done on a Saturday. They are closed Sunday and Monday. So I called Tuesday and expressed my severe concern for my FACE! I know piercing a nerve can happen... so I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt to make this wrong , right. I told them everything, including the twitching of face.... I was completely disregarded and was told that if it WAS NOT eating the jewelry, there was NOTHING they could do. I was shocked, saddened by the lack of empathy and professionalism. I have since been to my Doctors office and he confirmed my nerve was damaged. He gave me antibiotics to help with healing. It has been removed. But I hope and pray I DO NOT end up with any kind of...

We came to Black Diamond because Jacob had done some tattoos in the past for us and we loved his work. We drew up some things and brought them to Jacob and once again he took our drawing and edited them to make sense artistically and they turned out perfect. My wife and I wanted each others handwriting in the tattoos and he nailed it. He also touched up a Tattoo he had done in the past for me just because it needed to be done. My wife also got a nose piercing by Aaron. This was her first experience using Aaron but loved his work. These guys create an awesome environment with their personalities and professionalism. These guys...

Gabby does it again. Why is she so good at her job? She makes piercings painless and I don’t understand how. Had mine done years ago and swore I would never do it again because of how painful it was and my healing process sucked. I have had zero pain this time around. Highly recommend Black Diamond Collective as a shop.. very professional place with awesome prices. And definitely would not recommend anybody else other than Gabby for all of your piercings. Thanks again, y’all...