Three Rivers Tattoo Collective — Local services in Rochester

The owner Russ is a decent artist but only if he cares about what he’s drawing. He most of the time draws it up last minute and seems to put 0 effort into actually making the tattoo look nice if his mood is off. If you plan on spending a fair amount I’d pick a better place. It’s not worth risking permanent trash work on your body because someone isn’t interested or moody. You’ve been warned Edit: to reply to your comment below, it was just a very negative experience and you put minimal if 0 effort into it, and especially one of the sessions you were very visibly in a bad mood and that days session looked like absolute garbage. I didn’t write this to randomly lie, this is 100% honest review, maybe I can save at least 1 person the stress I had to go through getting a...

Had my second tattoo(s) done 29 Aug 2024, Kate was my artist this time as Russ did my first one. She is now known to me as "Kate The Great". She did a military style tattoo for me as a reflection on my past military service. She was very kind and open to any concerns or needs I presented. She took my project kind of last minute and pulled it off 100%.

She took my pictures and references and used her iPad to show how it would look on my arm and we decided on size and did the stencil. She nailed it! I Am very happy with my tattoos from her. highly recommend her. I don't think you could get a bad tattoo from her or Russ (the owner) they really care about the end product and are not "transactional" they truly care about the work they put out.

Jim...

Russ is amazing! He has a great humor and is very patient and kind. This was my second session with him, first at this location. It was perfectly lit. Had a great amount of space and atmosphere. I am excited to have my tattoo finished and find myself figuring out my next one! I would absolutely recommend this place as well as the Tattoo artists here. I also hear they maybe doing some drawing classes in...