Ink & Needle South

The best piercing guy in town. There's better tattoo shops out there. I have two tattoos from here and like 6 piercings.

Incredibly frustrated with this establishment. Me and a friend went in several weeks ago to get piercings. I got a tragus. Trusting that the piercer Hollywood knew what he was doing, I didn’t second guess the jewelry or anything about it. I even made sure to tip generously on both my own bill, and my friends. The whole experience was fine, it hurt but that’s expected. It bleed a lot as well, but again, expected. Over the next few days, my ear started to swell, naturally since I stabbed a hole in my ear. But then it just kept swelling, and swelling, to the point that the earring was disappearing into my swollen ear/face, despite my intense efforts to keep it clean, keeping in mind I have 12+ other piercings that have never been infected. My entire right side of my face was infected, my cheek swollen, my ear pouring out puss, topped with a horrible headache. I went to urgent care where they tried to painfully dig the earring out of my ear/face then gave up and sent me to the hospital. The hospital told me there’s nothing they could do, it was too far gone and they wouldn’t be able to remove it, and I’d have to find a plastic surgeon to cut it out of my ear. The bar on the jewelry that was used was WAY too small for a new piercing, and to quote several different physicians, “a qualified professional piercer should have know to use a longer bar to accommodate swelling” . It was simply too swollen to remove, so they gave me antibiotics and said hopefully when the swelling is gone, you can get it out. Okay great! Only problem is, I don’t know what kind of jewelry is in it (screw on, snap on, does it come off in the front or back etc.). I called Ink and Needle to find out what kind of jewelry was used, THREE separate times, during business hours, only to be sent to voicemail then cut off before I could even leave a message. I’m just floored by the whole situation, to have no way of contacting them, even just to let them know they used the wrong length jewelry and maybe save another person. It’s now almost a month later, and the swelling is gone, but my ear completely swallowed the earring and now I’m waiting to get in to a plastic surgeon to cut it out of my ear. Save yourself the pain (and possible infection and hospital bill) and find another piercing place.

I went with a couple friends for a walk in and Emma (@banditinks on IG) managed to fit all of us in even though she was busy! She specializes in fine line tattoos and did a great job on all of ours and the prices are super reasonable!

I went in to get a tattoo on my birthday. It was my first tattoo. Not only was my piercer acting incredibly annoyed with me, whilst complaining about how she hadn’t ate. She was actively rushing through my tattoo, which only took her about 30 minutes. It was a simple request for a double butterfly but when I asked her to detail the tattoo more instead of leaving it blank (butterfly wings) she told me that the ink would “spread” and cause it to look blurry. For reference, the tattoo itself is about 2.5 inches vertically and about 2 horizontally, with plenty of open space inside of the outline. If i wanted to get two empty butterfly tattoos, I shouldn’t have paid $125. Incredibly overpriced for some rushed work that honestly didn’t make me confident, happy, or leave me feeling good exiting the shop. I was upset with what was on my skin, paid way too much for an outline of a butterfly when that’s not what I asked for, and for her to make me feel like I was in HER way and disrupting HER time to eat, was just awful. Have some decency to treat new customers with respect and kindness and listen to what they want. I would never return to this shop and I’m glad to have gotten it covered the way I did. the tattoo was a rushed outline, NOT worth $125 and especially for how I felt about it, 0/10.

Great service 💯

Love Hollywood .Awesome piercer.Had to my piercing removed.And I'm going back to get them back in.And probably get a new one

I love the work Liv did at the South location. Her professionalism and attention to detail were amazing. Her line work is impeccable. There are several very talented female artists at this location.