Connecticut Ink LLC — Local services in Middlefield

went my first time to get my tongue done. the owner was not in so an employee did it. was a fantastic experience, super quick & easy & the guy was very nice. decided to go back to start my ear stack. this time i had been serviced by the owner jeff. while he was completely confident in doing the piercings i asked for they all ended up coming out wonky. first session i did 3 cartilage my tragus, conch, & foward helix. he had put a eyebrow bar in my conch which weighed down the piercing & ended up leaving a tear in my ear (which i later had to go to another piercer to try & reverse). as for my tragus, he pierced it way to low, to the point it just looked off, & my foward helix was the ONE piercing with little complication & actually solid placement. i had then went back to see if we could fix my tragus. since it was pierced so low we had decided to just put another one on top to hide how uneven it was (which did work but was charged full price for a piercing i got only to make my other one look less messed up). & that session i had also decided to do another foward helix (my goal was a stack) MIND YOU the first one was one of the only good piercing he had done on me so i felt confident it was fairly easy. we decided since my first one was healing well to change to a shorter bar, which took him a total of an hour of fiddling with a fairly new piercing to get the new jewelry in, by the time it was in, my ear was pooled with blood & i was light headed but i wanted these piercings so bad i simply denied all the red flags & pushed thru. after we had finally gotten to piercing the second foward helix in my stack the piercing was so shallow i could see the bar thru my ear. (which i didn't realize until well after swelling had gone down & i was trying to heal it). almost all of the ear piercings i had got done by jeff aggressively rejected & i had to find a different local piercer to try & revive what i had left (which was little to none, i reversed the rejection in my conch but sadly had to retire every other piercing done & found a more reputable shop). while i have little information on their tattooing i would say with extreme caution BEWARE OF...

A month ago I would have liked to have had the opportunity to give a better review but never even had the chance to get ink done considering the owner was completely non responsive. Went into the store right after the holidays with my son and spoke to Jeff for a good 10 min about what he wanted, he put his number in my son’s phone and said text or call anytime when he was ready and I also said I wanted to also get a large color thigh tattoo done at some point this year and he seemed psyched about doing both. My son texted him about 5 min after we left to book his appointment once we figured out our schedule and it’s now been almost a month and he still has not heard back. I’m big on communication and if you’re a business owner how do you expect to gain new customers if you ignore them especially within minutes of literally putting your number in their phone!? That’s such a turnoff to me so we’ve already booked elsewhere. Since then, we have both been warned by others who have been burned by this place so I guess I’m glad it worked out...

Contacted these guys middle of the day with a vague idea of a tattoo I wanted and a couple of pics for my ideas. Within an hour and no deposit or set appt, an artist here had an awesome mock up for me. Within two hours I was in getting the work done. The tattoo is absolutely beautiful.

These guys not only are talented while also being efficient artists who don’t charge you thousands of dollars to get good work done. For a couple hundred bucks I had a dream tattoo done all in the course of one day.

And to top it all off, the place is super LGBTQ friendly. Great tattoos. Reasonable prices. Happy and positive good people....