Self Inflicted Studios — Local services in St. Louis

originally i had left 5 stars on this business because they have never done me dirty AT ALL up until this point. so i went the st peters location to get my tongue pierced, long story short another piercer (yuyu) had looked at it and it was pierced completely incorrectly to the side. so i had went to this location three weeks later like the piercer said. i go and everything was going great i get my tongue repierced i think everything is fine. until the swelling lasted for 13 days and didn't go down. i went to a different shop to get my nostril pierced and i asked the piercer there if my tongue looked normal and he gave me the most concerned look ever and said i don't even have the anatomy for a tongue piercing because the webbing of my tongue is too long. so i message the piercer who repierced me (yuyu) about everything that was concerning me and sent pictures of my tongue. she confirmed that she had pierced me incorrectly. so that was two times from this business (st peters location and the st louis location) that they have pierced my tongue without me having the anatomy for it. :( i DID get a refund though for the piercing i did pay for and yuyu offered to sent the tip i gave her throughout venmo. (the second piercing was free for the first one that was messed up in the first place) so i really respect they left it off on good terms, apologized for the piercing, refunded me for the original piercing etc. but seriously it is dangerous because if a tongue is pierced incorrectly it can lead to heavy complications which is very concerning,...

Me and my boyfriend went in there today and i couldn't tell you the guys name but whom ever we were speaking to today I told him and showed him a picture of what I wanted and my boyfriend gave him a idea of what he was going for but he had asked him "do you have a picture?" we both sat there for a few minutes trying to find one real quick but this guy wasn't even helping us would've figured he would've tried to help draw something up considering he told him exactly what it was that he wanted. Well we went to sit back down after a minute because this dude wasn't even talking to us anymore so after sitting back down dude walked off and I was shocked because he wasn't even trying to talk to either of us. Soo needless to say after about 5 more minutes I told my boyfriend lets just go he apparently doesn't want the sale or for us to get what we came for so we left and went somewhere else and left from that shop completely satisfied. I was pretty annoyed and so was my boyfriend we both felt like this dude didn't even try to help us we sat and researched some pictures to try to help him get a better idea but he just walked off that there isn't good customer service if you ask me that's not cool at all. While the shop was very clean whom ever had talked to us I guess just didn't really care. I'm not a tattoo artist but if I was I would be drawing up stuff options for my client discussing with them we got none of that. Safe to say that first impression left it's mark on us and we won't be going back...

Mikah is an exceptional artist and person. Not only was he personable and kind, but he took the time to chat and share with me his passion for doing this type of art. I enjoyed very much that he still used old school coil machines and that he is passionate about sticking to this particular skill set. All the while, he made sure I was comfortable, and let me talk his ear off about the convention my group and I were there for. He also was very open and willing to stay way past closing time to take on another member of our group who thought they were going to be left out. As I said, a stellar human in all regards, and I will definitely book with him in future trips to STL should he still be in the studio.

Shout out to Madi (sp?) and one other artist who also stayed way past closing to accommodate all of us (8 in total). You all are fantastic and your time and skills are appreciated by all of us who got to meet you...