Seattle Tattoo Emporium — Local services in Seattle

Tattoo was ok, I was very amendable with the secretary about the reference I provided when I put my name on the waitlist, and since it was meant to be a small reminder of my time in Seattle and nothing too meaningful I was feeling ok with the result. What bothered me most and what left a bad taste in my mouth was the use of a non refundable deposit. Which would be fine if properly deducted from total amount, but after my friend finished paying for her tattoo she realized that they did not deduct the deposit from the total amount so she ended up paying double for her tattoo, so we went back to see what could be done about it since we figured it was an honest mistake on their part. We were told that nothing could be done unless she wanted to buy $150 (deposit amount) worth of merchandise/tshirts. Of course we thought this was ridiculous, but the secretary would not budge on the non refundable rule and with a deadeye stare and no sympathy whatsoever told us that the easiest thing would just be to ‘eat the double charge’. And when we asked if we could involve the card company and cancel the charge, the secretary said that doing so would end up messing up the visiting tattoo artist that did her tattoo, and who I might add did a much better job on creating her tattoo than anyone else at the store seemed to be doing. So we had to ask someone that was waiting in line for a tattoo if they wanted to buy the deposit off of us, and thankfully someone did (all with no help from either the secretary or any other senior staff). Honestly, if you don’t want to support a shady business do...

In October I came here looking to get a lip tattoo. I called before coming in to make sure someone could do that for me. After being told they could do it, I came in and had “no ragrets” tattooed. When he told me it was done I got up to go look. My first impression of it was that it was very VERY bad handwriting. Of course I couldn’t expect that much because after all, it was a joke lip tattoo. But, it was to the point where it was barely legible. But, it only got worse when I closed my mouth. I was mortified. He managed to do such a terrible job that you could see the end letters with my mouth closed. It looked like I had a black lip ring! (But hey no ragrets right) After I told him about it, he went over it again with something that would supposedly make it go away in a few days. He ended up not charging me for his bad mistake and I left. A few days later, I was still waiting for the outside portion of it to go away... 3 months later and it is still here!! In his defense part of it did fade, but not quite the right part. What was originally “no ragrets” faded to “ragrets” (haha) Moral of the story, be careful of what they tell you they can do for you here. You don’t want to end up with a permanent lip ring...

I had a hella good experience here. Had this tattoo planed for a while but it was definitely an impulsive “I’m going to get it now” kind of thing so I didn’t have an apt. I called around a few shops and in all honesty Seattle tattoo emporium was the nicest on the phone and the only place that could squeeze me in for a walk in (although I think they do take walk ins regularly). I didn’t care who tattooed me, but I’m glad Mishka was there!! I gave him the design I had which I got on the front of my upper thigh to cover up some old scars. I had him change a few things with the sketch which he did an amazing job at. He took everything I wanted into consideration; simple design, straight lines and stuff. Kind of a starter piece for an area I want to fill in more. Anyway, great experience start to finish thanks to everyone at Seattle tattoo emporium buy especially Mishka who was super nice and professional, easy to talk to and killed it on my tattoo....