Dago’s Tattoos

I’m so pleased with this place! I came almost 3 years ago for a piercing and it was a «different» environment but I thought «oh well» and I’m still pleased with my piercing. I went in this Tuesday 6÷14÷16 for a tattoo and although I was indecisive German was patient and helped me come up with one that I’m so pleased with. I was so happy that I went back today 6÷18÷16 for another one! I usually wait YEARS to get a tattoo but this time I couldn’t wait 5 days! I totally suggest going to Dago’s.

They stole $ 40 saying I didn’t pay, they were rude, place stunk. But thats what I get for coming to places like this.

Got my nose ring done here, first facial piercing, it’s kinda sketchy but they did a good job, the guy didn’t talk to me much, but I was glad with what I got so I think it’s pretty good for the price.

Called to see what was required for a belly button pierced and got called «Dumbass «so I called back and asked if I had heard correctly and he said «Yeah so what if I called you a dumbass, I’ll call you a dumbass» and hung up
Didn’t know it was cool for grown men to talk to an underage girl like that?

Got my belly button pierced here on $ 1 Wednesday over a year ago and it is completely healed. My piercing actually healed pretty quickly and it only hurt the first day but a few pain meds helped. Some people mention that their belly button piercings hurt when they change the ring but mine is completely pain free. I plan on coming here for more affordable piercings in the future. It’s best to go when 18 though, I went when 17 and had to have a lot of paper work. I believe the total was $ 3 because you had to pay for the paper work, jewelry, and service. No more than $ 5, for sure! The only thing I could say is the man who pierced my belly button wasn’t so friendly, he didn’t ask me anything, count, say I’m not going to feel anything, ask me if that’s where I wanted it, he just stuck it in. Also there isn’t much parking so get there early or you’ll be on the freeway. But I can’t complain, it was better than spending $ 60.

Love this place… affordable, talented artists, never been disappointed. I’ve gotten 12 of my 17 tattoos here. Always get exactly what I ask for. I’ll be back for more ink soon! Rudy just recently did a hemsa on my leg and made it personal to me. Most definitely my favorite tat. Keep up the great work guys

ALMOST DIED FROM INFECTED PIERCING!!!
Fuuuuuuuuuuck Dagos!!! I have surgical scars and hospital bills bc i stupidly went to this dirty, hoodass butcher shop for a cheap piercing. Ladies… i almost lost a breast to mastitis (look it up) bc of Dagos. Do NOT GAMBLE WITH YOUR BODY BY GOING HERE.
If you LOVE your self… do better and go to a reputable shop.

Ok, so, this review is 2 years overdue. But it is just as relevant. I went to Dagos because i had only been in houston a few months and had no idea where to go. A friend of mine had gotten a few small tattoos done there. They all appeared to be good work. So i went. I was discouraged when i walked in. This is such an unkept shop. The opposite of what a tattoo shop should look like. I wish, with everything in me that i would have followed my gut instinct and just left. But i decided to give them the benefit of the doubt. There was so many people there. I thought, how bad could it be if its always busy? WRONG. i wanted a poem. Yes the whole thing. They wanted to charge me anywhere from 600 – 800 depending on the artist i talked to. Which i thought was crazy. It was just words. No shading, no other images. Just words. One guy says, ill do it for $ 300. Caution lights should have gone off, but didn’t… this guy insists on doing it in his own handwriting. Seriously, insists. Until i was just like, fine, ill see how u do it… and we’ll decide. I was so tired. Then i look over it first, and he has mispelled a few words (i had already printed it out for him to look at word for word). So i have him fix that. Then, he just cant place it. Takes almost an hour. Get the tattoo done (on my side), and im so exhausted that afterwards i had my gf take the picture and took off shortly after. In the car ride as soon as we take off i am examining the photo only to find out that this ignorant, illiterate, a**hole STILL MISPELLED THE WORDS I HAD CORRECTED! AND FORGOT ALL PUNCTUATION IN THE POEM! i freak out and immediately call the shop which goes straight to the owners of the shop’s house. I start screaming and crying about how this is permanent! And i paid $ 300… how could she employ people who cant even spell! Or copy?! Thats what they do for a damn living! Wtf! She tells me to go straight back and she is going to have the «master artist» «fix» it. and im like how the f*ck do you fix permanent? So there i was, getting my entire side done for the second time, back to back. Painful? Yes. As hes redoing it, the idiot who screwed in comes in to look in and doesnt even have the damn decency to apologize, give me my money back, nothing! Just says «ohh, i messed up?» And after he walks away the «master artist» says, «i knew i shouldnt have let him do this tattoo» and im like. what? If you knew he wasnt capable, why is he doing this?! Why dont you warn customers who are here looking for beautiful, memeorable work to be done? He then says, «i gotta give my guys a chance»… well how about you let him screw up your skin then.Like. what are you high on dude? You do a job where you put permanent, memorable, important things on people. How dare u not take it seriously. Im sure work ethic matters when you go see your doctor Doesn’t it? After the second go over, i just leave. Angry and sad. And never went back. I look at my tattoo that takes up my entire side everyday in disappointment… they have managed to ruin something i wanted so bad for so long. so. Follow your instincts, and just GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! i cant believe this place still stands. The «artists» are not even nice or friendly to top it ALL off! Save yourself the disappointment and go to a real shop, with real artists who take pride in their work.

I just went to Dagos Wednesday & I did the 1 $ piercing special. At first I was really hesitant about that because it’s so cheap. But, my piercings feel just like my previous cartilages I have had done. (I now have 7). For a shop that has absolutely terrible parking, pretty rude staff, and a long wait the piercing did turn out really good. I made sure everything was sterile and clean before he pierced me. It was. I’d go back to get more piercings but that’s it. Just prepare yourself not to make a warm & cozy feeling with your piercer. But they do turn out great!

I was doing some research on getting a piercing so I called Dago’s cause a friend referred me to them. The employee answers the phone and asks me what I want so I said I’m inquiring about prices for a piercing of my helix. He proceeds to ask me again I assumed he didn’t hear me he said in a snarky voice what do you want to pierce you booty hole. I hung up on him after going off on him about his shitty customer service. If that’s how they treat customers on the phone I can’t image how they treat you while getting an actual tattoo or piercing.

I will say this much about Dagos. I received my first few tattoos from them and I have no problems with. If you’re going there for eye candy then I highly recommend them. I haven’t been in years so I can’t really bad mouth them… all I ‘m saying if you’re going there just to get a cheap tattoo then you get what you paid for.

For everyone that’s getting a $ 1 piercing, and saying «Oh, well. If it gets infected, at least it was cheap.» I’m sorry but, you won’t be saying that after you get HIV or something horrible from these unsanitary needles. I haven’t gotten anything done here, because of all the other horrible reviews. Please do your research before making a rash decision…

Place is dirty and the tools look dirty as well. seems like only basic bs tats are given and not even good one. i rather pay a professional for tats.
I saw the piercing station and all i can imagin IS HPV and heppatitis
Only people who think they give good tats is young people between 18 – 21.
Managent need to change and get better artist or real artist or do N. SIDE a favor and shut down

Personally I think it’s not Dago’s the shop’s fault for some of the mistakes some artist may have made, You have to keep in mind that they hire new people at times and You won’t get lucky. If You really want good work ask for Luis to do your tattoo. He yet my favorite tattoo from all my 30 tattoos. They are obviously clean because they show you and make you sign the packets they open. I think it’s a great place I’ve been going there for a few years now and I love it.

Completely unprofessional, unsanitary, & undesirable place to look at for tattoos. I accompanied my friend to get her cartilage pierced. The place was dark & not welcoming at all. An older lady who looked like one of the mom’s of the male employees tendered my friend on the process of the paperwork. She made my friend write down these death sentence sounding statements written poorly with Crayola markers which sounds something like «I refuse to get aftercare» I don’t remember all of it. These statements were weird & sounded like odd witch craft sayings. Anyways it wasn’t long before her turn. It was quick & easy. I didn’t see him wash his hands or sanitize her targeted ear at all nor the needle. This was in March. My friend is still alive & healthy so I guess the process was ok. Not worth $ 5 in my opinion. I’ll stick to my wonderful piercers/​artists in Montrose

The piercer deliberately made getting my nose pierced hell, but the piercing is cute. Also didn’t clean me or my friends noses before piercing them but whatever.

I would give this place less than one star. Very dirty, disgusting place. The workers are very rude and the customer service sucks! I would not recommend this place to anyone! I guess they think because they have love prices they can treat you any kind of way, but that’s no way to run a business! Lastly, this one lady that worked the front counter was coked out, and she was very rude and illiterate!

Wednesday $ 1 piercings are the
. Totally worth it. I got a 3 piercings. My second ear holes and my cartilage on the left side. My friend got her belly button. In my opinion even if the piercing were to get infected or not work out I would only be wasting a dollar.
After we went it and signed all the necessary paper work, we sat down and waited for the guy to call our number. We waited about 30 minutes and when it was our turn me and my friend got pierced in under 10 minutes. Our piercer was fast and efficient. If I were to come back I would want him to do it again.

Ok. So, I took my best friend for her birthday to get matching tat’s. It was buy one get one free, and we each paid $ 20. So I mean, it was totally a «You get what you pay for» thing. I get that.
I wouldn’t come here again, though.
First, we found out that it «Had to be» a tattoo from a few pages posted on the wall. Well, frankly, I pitched a fit. Because fck no. This is on MY arm forever. Sorry. I don’t need to pick something out from your cheesy list. I didn’t read anything about that on your FB, and I drove 40 minutes to get here, soooo, no.
We got matching tats. Two words, «just be» I guess, for tattoos, they charge by the word? Like, each word is a different tattoo, which makes almost no sense to me, considering it was smaller than most of the other «premade» tattoos they had there.
We both got different artists. She got a pretty nice guy, who joked around. I got a guy who would NOT listen. We wanted to get them in each other’s handwriting. We’d spent all day re-​writing them, until we finally got them EXACTLY right.
I’ve had other tats where they just did the whole tracing paper thing. That’s what I’d hoped for. But not this guy! FIRST, he completely didn’t look at the paper I handed him. Tried to do it in gangsta-​ass old English. No. I had him redo it a mess of times. Sorry, I’m totally anal about it, it’s there forever. If he’d just payed attention, it would have been fine.
My best friend’s artist got hers right first try. She was in 10 minutes before me, and hers came out great. She even bought another tat from her guy. She was done 10 minutes before I was. I got the worst guy. I swear.
Eventually we got the handwriting right. He blew out some of the line work, f*cked up a lot of the lettering. But whatever.
I actually do love my tattoo, because it was really special. But if I could do it over, and go somewhere else, I would. I mean, the whole meaning of the tat was to just let go, and just be whatever you are. So I guess it’s pretty poetic, that it’s kind of screwy.
But never again.

I have gotten a Monroe piercing and a tattoo from Dago’s.
True, the place is ghetto. And true there are long lines of semi unruly people. The parking is horrible (non existent) and its not the nicest part of town.
That being said, I went here for a tattoo and a piercing so, I’m not too concerned with aesthetics. The piercing was done very professionally and correctly. It look less than a minute, cost me a dollar, and was my favorite thing about my face.
When I got my tattoo, I walked in with a letter A on my wrist and left with something really cool that cost me $ 30. When I got the letter A, I went to a parlor off Montrose and THAT cost me $ 30.
The tattoo has held up well over time. I went in with a rough idea of what I wanted and the artist took it a step further and gave me something I love.