22 Caliber Tattoo Studio Canal Winchester — Local services in Columbus

My sister and I both got our ears pierced. Just a regular piercing. We both already have a couple of piercings so in our experience, these have never taken us long to heal. Not in this case though. I'm not sure if they're using cheap material but both of our ears were taking forever to heal, once we removed our piercings we both had huge knots underneath the skin! It's been weeks since we removed our piercings, and I still have knots underneath my skin and one of them formed a pustule and I went to scratch my ear and there's puss and blood on my fingers. Never in all my piercings have I ever experienced this! The fact that my ears still haven't healed and it's been weeks since removing the piercing is a problem!

Response from the owner: All of our Jewelry is Needle grade Jewelry in order to accommodate folks with metal allergies which is the best Jewelry there is. Nothing cheap ever goes in our piercings. Scar tissue (keyloid) is totally possible in any piercing or tattoo for that matter. This is something out of our control. You signed a form that you understood the fact this can happen in the waiver. It's more common than you would think. This has nothing to do with Jewelry or the piercer so writing a bad review based on this should be taken down ASAP. Read waivers before you get piercings or anything for that matter. Thanks

Response: as an owner of a business your conduct and response to these reviews are highly unprofessional and quite frankly rather rude! If your intention was to get me to remove this review, this was not the way to go about it! As I stated before this is not my first piercing! And contrary to your belief, I read the form, that does not negate that I believe you're using cheap jewelry! Especially considering both my sister and I experienced the same thing, and we both were pierced by the same person! And considering this is not the first review about your shop potentially using cheap jewelry, I stand by my response! The appropriate thing to do, instead of getting defensive, is to correct the problem! And it's not me! I have 7 piercings and I have NEVER keloid before! I've never had a pustule because of it either! I have the jewelry, maybe I should just go get it checked to see what grade it actually is!!! Do better, learn some humility! If more than several people are reporting the same problem, it sounds like there's only one common...

I was not greeted upon entry, then after looking around some I was asked if I needed some help. I inquired about a tattoo and the guy said they were booked a few months out but the girl had availability in a week or so. She said she could do my tattoo and I sent her the reference picture. Day of tattoo. She made the print HUGE. I said I wanted it on my upper arm, it def would not fit there. So I suggested my lower back, she asked if I was sure. I said yeah its a blank space. She attempted to put the stencil on multiple times then asked if I had anywhere else that was a more flat surface like a thigh. (I'm a bigger gal) I caved in and said I had my left thigh (which I was saving for another tattoo) She went to tat and she was bouncing her leg the entire time, she was very heavy handed, and when I asked her to change certain things she would double ask if I was sure. Halfway done and I couldn't take the pain so I asked if I could come back and she said she didn't know how to reapply a stencil to half a tat... so I sucked it up and finished it. I paid and gave my tip like a good patron. The lines are not straight, it's not symmetrical, it's just not good ink. I reached out to I guess the owner who said he could fix it and he'd let me know when he had availability. It's been over 2 years... Also she was an apprentice and I was never told. Overall, highly...

A friend and I had gone in for the Halloween flash sale on Tuesday October 11, 2022, we ended up getting three small tattoos and she made an appointment for two of the larger scale Halloween tattoos. the staff was nice, and the experience was overall well the very first time.

However yesterday, my friend that showed up for her appointment, and the artist Che ended up leaving for a "quick trip" and never returned back to the shop that day. she ended up waiting at the shop for several long hours to not be able to her tattoo appointment done. Now there was an artist who offered to do her tattoo, but he was extremely rude about it and told her that he "really didn't want to do it."

Also, nobody from the management staff offered an additional solution, another appointment, or any kind of compensation or alternative for waiting over 4 hours.

She was trying to cover up some very personal scars, it literally took her days to get up the courage for this appointment for it to be canceled so rudely and unprofessionally.

I would really appreciate if the general manager could get in...