Tattoo Jungle — Local services in Calera

I rarely leave reviews, but this place was so rude and awful to me. I came in about a year ago on a Saturday night and the place was completely dead (red flag). My mom and I wanted to get matching Zinnia flower tattoos, as she was recently diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. The tattoo "artist" was so annoyed with my request from the start. He then proceeded to mutter under his breath very rude things while he looked up pictures online. He then said "this is the ugliest flower I've ever seen" and some other nasty things which were rude and uncalled for. I walked out in tears and he proceeded to talk bad about me to my own boyfriend. If he had just said he didn't want to do it I would have said thank you and left, there was no need to make fun of me and be nasty. And there wasn't a single customer in the building, you'd think he'd shut up and take my money. All that to say I found a fantastic artist at StayGold in Fultondale who was wonderful and easy to work with and make a dream come true for me and my sweet mom. Without...

TLDR: 0/10 would NOT recommend tattoo jungle for piercings.

I got both of my helixes pierced at Tattoo Jungle on Dec 1st. The piercer gave me bactine to spray on the fresh piercings and gave me aftercare instructions that included washing the piercings with soap up to 3 times a day. Not knowing better at the time, I followed the instructions and the skin on my cartilage was soooo red and swollen and painful for the following 5-6 days that I thought I had infected piercings. Called another piercer and they told me the harsh chemicals in the recommended bactine spray and soap I was washing with were massively irritating my fresh piercings. I also called to ask for the gauge of my earrings and to confirm they were hypoallergenic (I am allergic to nickel) and was told I was pierced with 20g and never got 100% confirmation about the content of their earrings. Come to find out 16g is recommended for helixes. All together an awful experience but I am thankful after starting the right aftercare procedures that my ears are healing well and...

We had the worst experience at Tattoo Jungle on Saturday, 11/2. We took our 11 year old daughter to get her second holes in her ear pierced for her birthday. We wanted to take her somewhere it’ll be better job & a cool experience for her.. NEITHER of those happened. The piercer, Jeff (who is also the owner) barely even acknowledged my daughter or us as her parents for that matter. He came off kind of aggressive & not friendly. He didn’t let my daughter have a decision about the piercing & didn’t let us really decide either. His exact words were ‘it’s my decision’ & shoved the needle in her ear before we could agree on the placement & tell him yes or no. Once he was done, he didn’t say a single word to us. He started having a conversation with someone else & we just stood there until the girl working there said we could go. IT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER. He didn’t make it enjoyable for our daughter whatsoever. We will NEVER be going there again & will make sure to not recommend them to...