Pixley's Oddities — Local services in San Diego

ive had two bad experiences here and this most recent one has completely ruined how i view myself. the first one was with a piercing. i got my industrial here a few months ago and while i am aware industrial piercings may never heal, this one has not only not healed but it's also infected to this day i just took it out because i can't handle having two botched body modifications from the same place. the person who pierced me was extremely nervous and awkward, they were unhygienic, and had a hard time piercing through one side of my ear. i bled so much that they were wiping it off my hair. the side they had a hard time piercing through has had so many bumps and has caused so many headaches. this last time i went in for a tattoo. this is just the worst thing i've ever gotten. i contacted the artist about a week prior to today and asked for an exact replica of a barbed wire heart i have on my left thigh with words in the exact same font. this person confirmed they could do it and we set up the appointment and it was left at that. i came in for the appointment and i was told she actually could not do this because she couldn't copy the design from the photo i sent her. she chose to freehand the design. the font looks nothing like the font i have on my left thigh, it's slanted and off center from the heart, which i couldn't vocalize because she tattooed the lettering before doing the heart. the heart has many many stray lines it looks nothing like the heart on my left. i offered her the original reference picture for the left heart to make things easier, in my mind she could've printed the reference out or made it into a stencil quickly but she seemed bothered by the offer and got defensive. she ignored the reference and continued to freehand the design i specifically asked to be exactly recreated. the d in the word coward (get up, coward were the lyrics i wanted done) is so far spaced out from the rest of the word it says cowar d. the whole thing looks awful. she then spent two hours straight tattooing me with a very thin needle which hurt so much worse than the original tattoo with no breaks, she didn't offer any breaks except for once about 30 minutes into the tattoo. after an extremely painful 2 hours she almost let me walk out with no saniderm, and had to get someone else to put it on me because she has never done it. she did not go over aftercare at all. she kept going in to go over lines, creating stray ones and at one point she seemed to scribble on my leg? i felt more like a guinea pig for this person. i've been to this shop three times n every time there's been something wrong. the first artist no longer works there, but she did a great job despite the slight attitude she had. im so disappointed and upset, i've worked hard to love my body and now it feels like i have to start from zero. i paid three hundred dollars for this garbage. i am beyond devastated, please do extensive research on the artists in this shop. im sure there's great and talented artists there but there's also very new artists that frankly shouldn't be tattooing real people yet. i trusted this artist because her work on her page looked great but she couldn't follow simple instructions and made it seem like i was making an unreasonable request. also, they have you sign a consent form beforehand where you fill in pronouns and preferred name. i put in my preferred pronouns and still this artist called me she to the other artists asking about the design. even if she hadn't looked at the form, my pronouns are listed on my instagram account where i initially contacted her. regardless of how i present myself, i would hope a shop that has so many pride flags and strives to look different and inviting would at the very least respect my pronouns. i will not be returning to this shop for...

Had an overall very bad experience here with Mari. I had scheduled a tattoo in May of 2023, and the night of she had canceled due to an emergency (which is completely valid), however, rescheduling with her was a nightmare. She had taken such a long time in between each email to respond (even when I had immediately replied), it took us a month to find a day that had worked for the reschedule. This communication was extremely rude as a client trying to make an appointment which was canceled on her end to begin with. Next, when I had gotten to the appointment in the morning I had to wait an hour after my scheduled appointment time to finally get brought back (I was her first client of the day anyway), she also seemed annoyed to slightly change the design, even though it was not what I had wanted. She also did my tattoo completely in light gray instead of black which I only fully realized after it had healed. Another thing to note was she never discussed the price until the very end, and it ended up being way more than I had expected. It would have been nice to had known the price before the appointment started. In August I had reached out to her asking if she was able to retouch the design in black since I did not expect or want it in light gray. This series of communication (both on email and instagram DM) took weeks in between each response and which she eventually left me on delivered, never to respond whatsoever. This interaction made me feel extremely disrespected. I am getting my tattoo retouched by an artist at a different shop now because of this disrespect from her. It is disappointing because I do really love her work and would have gone back to her to get more things done, but this is by far the worst experience I have had at any shop. The only good thing about this was that the shop was overall clean...

I’ve gotten a piercing and tattoo done here on separate occasions months apart- the tattoo more recently. I was bummed to hear the person who pierced me is no longer at the shop. The shop itself is very cute, clean, and welcoming. However I felt like I walked into some sort of clique i wasn’t supposed to be apart of when i was being tattooed. my artist was good but didn’t make me feel welcomed, and had separate conversations with other artists and would stop tattooing me to take care of unrelated matters or continue conversations. it seems as though most of the artists have been tattooing for about a year or less. overall cute place but be aware of expectations of...