Godspeed Tattoo and Body Piercing — Local services in Pittsburgh

Absolutely horrible. I was in on Thursday (9/2) for a walk-in tattoo. My artist was Drew, whom I found out after we had started was not a regular artist with you and was only visiting. This was fine and we continued the rest of the tattoo, however I noticed that he didn't take much care to clean the space he was at or prepare properly. I paid $120 +$20 for a tip, was wrapped in saniderm and sent on my way. When I got home that night I noticed that the tattoo was a bit uneven and messaged Drew to see if he could fix it the next day. He said yes and I went in on Friday (9/3) to have it touched up. Once again, I noted that he hadn't properly washed his hands before cleaning my tattoo off and only put gloves on once he started the touch up, then I was wrapped in saniderm and sent on my way once more.

The morning of 9/4 I awoke to an excruciating pain in my wrist and the inability to flex it properly due to swelling, so I took the saniderm off and went to my local urgent care. There I was told that my tattoo is 100% infected and I would need to be on antibiotics for the next 10 days and monitor it.

Note that the ONLY time the tattoo was uncovered was while I was at the shop on 9/2, for the touch up on 9/3, and lastly the morning of 9/4 right before I went to urgent care. Not once had I peeled or uncovered my tattoo until right before I drove to the doctor.

When I emailed the shop about it to inform them and ask for a potential refund, no one answered. But when I messaged the artist to discuss it, I was met with childish indignation and gaslighting saying that it was entirely my fault for “not leaving the saniderm on long enough” which isn’t even a factor in this situation. I am absolutely disgusted with the shops lack of response and responsibility for their “guest artist” as well as the rude response and following conversation I had...

Amazing experience all around. This was my second time in this shop and it's been the only place I have gotten work done at. The first time was cool and my tattoo is exactly what I wanted. However, Nick really went above and beyond as far as design, and great ideas to contribute into the art when I first talked to him toget an idea about price and show the images to. The day came and Nick really excels at what he does. He made some changes that were needed in the design and we got started on the session. Even both stencils were placed perfectly on the first try, and the first one included me shaking from nerves. I was a bit shaky (literally) for the first hour but Nick did great work and I relaxed. We took necessary breaks and powered through. I'm Super freaking happy with how it turned out. Nick did an amazing job and it turned out better than what I had in my head. I'll be recommending this shop to others and will be back for another...

stopped in on a whim to get a lip piercing and despite how welcoming the staff was, not only did i walk out of there with a piercing i didn’t want (thank god it looks cute) but i was pierced with the complete wrong jewelry which has negatively impacted the healing process. thankfully, i took really good care of it despite being told absolutely NO aftercare so it didn’t heal crooked. however, it’s been 9 weeks which is way past when the inverse vertical labret should be properly healed and when i went to a different shop to get my bar changed i was actually MORTIFIED at the piece of jewelry that my piercer had stuck straight through my lip. getting it changed was 5x more painful than getting it done and i’m still going through a tough healing process to make sure there’s no complications that i really wish i didn’t have to worry about in the first place. highly...