Elektrik Chair Tattoo — Local services in Wichita

First off, let me start by saying that I have gone to Erik for several piercings before. I have always wanted my hood pierced but was uncomfortable at the idea at a male doing the piercing. I decided to go to a shop close to Wichita, since they had a female piercer. I was shown to a table behind several screens that were propped up and were the only barrier between me and everyone else in the room. The piercing itself was traumatizing to say the least. She started, stopped, started, stopped, and finally finished piercing me. To say the least, I was pale, shaking, and crying. I have never yelled or cried over a piercing before. I did on this one! I had shooting pains down one leg and had problems walking. I was extremely sore and swollen. NOT the experience I had wanted with this piercing! Less than a week later, I went back to see if I could get a longer barbell. I couldn't stand the constant prodding on the nerve that was hit as the taper was being pushed through and just said forget the piercing. I was charged an additional $20 just for the jewelry removal. After having paid $100 for a botched piercing as it was, I wasn't happy. It's been about a year and a half since that experience. I've wanted the piercing redone ever since, just haven't had the courage after how my last experience turned out. After much begging and a deal with my fiancé, I decided to go at least talk to Erik to see what he thought. We established that the piercing was much too deep and that there was a chance that she had pierced a certain bundle of nerves that she shouldn't have, which would explain the starting, stopping, and so on. I was a complete nervous wreck but I really wanted the piercing again. Erik helped calm my nerves and explained how he has done thousands of them, literally. After a lot of talking, I decided to just go for it. Erik helped me pick the jewelry I wanted, then I was able to watch him anodize it the blue I wanted, autoclave it, and prepare for my new piercing! He made sure I was comfortable through the whole process and was super friendly about all my questions. The piercing itself wasn't hardly as bad as last time at all! Erik did an AMAZING job on reassuring me and making me I was completely happy with everything. I couldn't recommend him more for a piercing. I wish I had gone to him the first time so I wouldn't have had the experience I did. I'm very happy with the price as well. It was comparable to the other location, BUT I was able to choose a color for my barbell plus a jeweled top. :) Erik will be my go-to person...

My tattoo was mostly done and it was fully paid for and just needed a few flowers colored in but when I made my second appointment to finish the tattoo the artist I went to stated that his prices changed and he was unable to honor the “paid in full” price and I would need to pay more to get it finished even though he said when I came back I would not have to pay anything since the reason we stopped the session was due to him wanting to be done for the day and he needed a break. Which I understood completely however if I knew he would have done this I wouldn’t have went to him in the first place. I drove 2 hours for this appointment and an hour and a half prior to the appointment time he informed me of this information of his prices changing and him being unable to honor the “paid in full” anymore. However, whether his prices changed the next day after seeing more or when I made my appointment I felt he should have honored the original paid in full agreement. It was not professional and he didn’t offer any other solution he just stated “I don’t do free work” again, not free it was paid in full. Very unsatisfied with this experience. I didn’t put the name of the artist for their privacy but after a couple of weeks of thinking about this experience I am incredibly upset with how...

My husband and I have taken our daughter here for profesional piercings, and in the past, we got her lip pierced and all we had to do was bring our ID's. However, this time around, the new, bearded receptionist told us that we had to have her birth certificate, and that the ID would not suffice, regardless of the fact that they had pierced her in the past, and that the piercer knew us.

The receptionist said that we couldn't get piercings because of a new "law", that made it so we had to have her birth certificate. When, in fact, it is not a state law, and it is actually just a new store policy, and I did not appreciate the misuse of verbage.

When we questioned this further, the receptionist straight up ignored us and went on to the next customers while I stood there in the middle of my sentence.

This was frustrating, as we had drove all the way from out of town and feel that the receptionist wouldn't even give us the time of day. This was truly an example of terrible customer service.

So, we ended up going to a different piercing place that was recommended to us by a friend, called Symbolic Tattoos and Piercings. We were treated wonderfully and gave our piercer a hefty tip.

We will not be returning to this...