@sethholmestattoos: It seems like we all have tattoo shop horror stories 😵💫. What is something that happened to you that made you look for a new shop/artist to get tattooed by? #pittsburgh #tattoos #inkmaster #tattooartist #fyp
Never being on time for the scheduled appointment.
2026-03-04 05:36:19
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John :
them constantly stopping to text or take a call while I'm in the chair.
2026-02-28 19:30:08
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EPB :
when i said how I wanted the flowers in my tattoo to look and they insisted on doing it their way "because thats how they do them" (which I still hate to this day). unfinished sleeve for over a decade...
2026-03-04 14:50:49
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Krouton :
Confirmed on a price range before hand, we shook on it, finished up he said “Wow I really like how it came out, can you pay more than we agreed on?”
2026-03-24 17:06:33
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rìnne ⚸ :
I asked about a custom piece and she said she’d just run my idea through ChatGPT for the outline and that was it for me.
2026-03-24 20:14:48
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🧿Dr.Steezy🧿 :
changing my entire idea because it isn't "artistic minded"
2026-03-06 16:57:24
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Oldmanfisk :
Hehehe…..
2026-03-02 19:45:46
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tattoosbyelijah :
me it was me 🤙🏽
2026-03-01 17:28:44
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Jess :
Go to a different shop
2026-02-28 20:35:58
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Janna :
Complained about tattooing a minor while tattooing a 16 year old. I called three times to make sure everything would be okay. I should’ve taken my daughter and left, but she wanted the tattoo done so bad. She ended up going too deep, the tattoo blew out, and she has scar tissue underneath.
2026-03-03 00:40:40
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HeavyMetalCrwn :
Take multiple smoke breaks and add it to the clocked hours and saying he’s legally required breaks. Tattoo shops in the 90s were wild 💀
2026-03-13 03:31:18
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Killerbassoonist :
Asked for $ advance for custom work and booking, totally normal. Booked the appointment a month out. Then day of the appointment calls and tells me that he's just not feeling the art work and doesn't think he can do it justice. No refund, nothing. 🤬
2026-02-28 17:44:30
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Uh man duh :
My 2 sisters and I scheduled a appt to have 3 matching(ish) tattoos 2X2 just like outline. We show up 15mins early to fill out our forms and scan ids. When we arrived the desk person said we were here and he yells back so angry OMG WELL THERE EARLY then was a jerk the entire time
2026-02-28 18:20:44
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DroppedDeadandDusty :
get drunk while tattooing me and making the tattoo crooked
2026-03-24 20:35:02
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GOOSE :
Died....
2026-02-28 22:34:03
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TheRidgeOutdoors :
More of a piercing thing. But the guy pierced my septum, wasn’t bad, then accidentally pulled the original needle before getting the ring in, so he had to redo it within a couple mins. The second time was infinitely worse. Never apologized or anything.
2026-03-23 16:06:24
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Jester602 :
died.
2026-03-24 20:33:43
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GrumpyB :
yep same constantly waiting on them, banging to long same tat
2026-02-28 21:39:16
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Rose :
I had a deeply sentimental design that I wanted to get,I saw him rolling his eyes at the idea…… half way through tattoo……. Like really dude? Do you had to live with the idea on your body? I paid him a ridiculous amount of money too and didn’t get tattooed for years after that.
2026-02-28 17:52:07
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hey.linds :
Not being ready when I showed up for our scheduled appointment. I picked a time offered by the artist. We previously agreed on a design with only a couple touch ups needed. I arrived 10 minutes early so I could sign paperwork and use the restroom, and she was still finishing the design. After 45 minutes in the waiting area she finally called me back. Which means we didn’t even start the tattoo until an hour after the scheduled time. The worst part - I was scheduled for 3pm and we didn’t start until 4pm, but the place closed at 5 that day so we were rushing to finish so the shop assistant could clean and least. The first 1/2 of my tattoo looks great and has tons of color, but the last 1/2 is scratchy and patchy AF. You know it’s bad when the artist posts pictures on their social media and removes them later. Evidently someone told her it looked crappy. She did tell me she offers free touch-up’s but I never went back. It’s been 9 months and I’ll probably pay someone else to redo the bad parts.
2026-03-03 13:50:28
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Thehalfbakedbean :
$3k cash in my pocket. he scoffed at my sleeve idea. coolcoolcool✌🏻
2026-03-06 03:09:25
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Miss Priss :
No decent banter lol
2026-03-04 01:22:10
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Justin Payne :
Excessive dry wiping ,
2026-03-06 03:40:00
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