Painted Elephant Studio Tattoos & Piercing Shop — Local services in Cabot

On August 28th a friend and I went to get piercings at Painted Elephant. I don’t remember the lady’s name that pierced us. It might’ve been Shanna? Anyway we walked in and signed up to get pierced and she brought us back to the room. I went first and she pierced a spot on my helix no issues (except I later found out from another piercer that it was messed up and wasn’t straight back at all). My friend went next and she wanted a septum. First thing I noticed is that the piercer didn’t feel and check her nose anatomy before piercing her septum. After she stuck the needle through her nose she took it out and walked over to the tray to grab the septum jewelry. She came back and inserted the jewelry into my friend’s septum. The jewelry wouldn’t go all the way through. So Shanna (?) sat there and tried to get the jewelry through her septum for probably 6-8 minutes while it was continuously bleeding. The piercer ended up having to grab someone else to come fix it and get it through. The whole process took too long and involved way more pain than it should’ve. They were all nice and apologized and even gave us free cleaner which was nice. On October 31st, I went with two of my friends to get piercings. I wanted another helix and my friend wanted a nose piercing. We got all signed up and I went first again. It was the same piercer as the time before so I was a little nervous. She got all set up and pierced my right middle helix area. She took the needle out and grabs the earring and said something like “oh, I should have pierced it from the back.” Then she sat and tried to get my piercing in/through for around 6 minutes. The pain wasn’t bad at first and I have a pretty high pain tolerance. After maybe 2 1/2 minutes my ear was throbbing and the pinching started hurting me so bad. I was turned and I don’t think she could my face but my friend could and tried to say a couple times it might be good to maybe stop. I was silently crying just waiting for it to be over. Eventually I couldn’t handling the pinching and asked her to stop. She was super sweet and apologized and cleaned my ear up super nice. I don’t know if either of the rough experiences we had were because of the piercer or just coincidence but we will most likely not be going back. Overall I would not recommend...

Here is what happened to me and kids today:

I called twice today to Painted Tattoo about getting my daughters nose pierced and was told the age (14yrs and up) and paper work needed, so we went there. My aunt and her daughter went as well. We get there fill out forms and once we get called back to have it done the gentleman told me she was to young had to be 16yrs old. All I said was “so I’ve wasted my time driving up here even tho I called twice before coming?” He told me the age had just changed. He apologized. I said ok I understand. That is all I said and I have 4 witnesses. As I’m leaving my aunt asked me what is wrong so I told her and as I’m saying this the other guy comes from the other side of the room and starts cussing and yelling at me then gets in my face! I told him to calm down and get away from me and my daughter and I was leaving. I wasn’t asked to leave. He was saying I’ve disrespected his daughter- the girl that answered the phone when I had called earlier today. He can think I disrespected her all he wants but still doesn’t excuse his behavior! I then left to go outside to get away from him. Few seconds later my aunt comes out and said the guy went off on her too! She never even said anything the entire time she was there! What the heck did she do to get yelled at??!!

Shocking how someone thinks it’s ok to act so horribly!...

A worker named Michael went off on a family member of mine after being misinformed by Michael's daughter twice on the phone before we went to this business for a body piercing. Michael cussed my niece up and down and bowed up on her before my niece and her daughter left. Then when I was still deciding if we wanted to deal with this man, he started going off on me about my niece. We left and hope no one ever goes here. The man was highly disrespectful and bowed up on two girls that each don't even weigh 100 lbs, when his daughter was in the wrong. Instead of acting respectfully, he yelled and berated a woman and her daughter, who were both scared. This man became unhinged for no reason and doesn't deserve...