Tattoo Paradise

I went in yesterday to get an upper thigh piece with Deirdre, and her work was absolutely amazing. She and I consulted about a month ago over the design, and she delivered a beautiful rendering of what I had envisioned. Her bedside manner is great — very warm and comforting, which was helpful when parts of the tattooing got painful. It was a very complex design with tons of intricate line work, and I’m so pleased with it so far! Still have one more sitting to go through in a month, and I can’t wait for it to be finished!

I did a tattoo about a year ago, my friends looked for a place, and they saw good recommendations about tattoo paradise. I did some words on my shoulder, it was suppose to be an easy tattoo, at least they told me that it would be. I did my tattoo with Carly, but the words were very blurry, it was terrible, I returned there few days later, and they tried to fix it with white ink, but was still very bad!!! I don’t know if now he is better or not, I just wanna share my experience, it wasn’t good at all! And its something for the rest of my life. Now Im gonna try to fix it, but I dont know how it will be, because I really don’t want something big on my shoulder.

The guy at the front desk is a total piece of work. For a small design of a cross and heart my price went from $ 65 bucks somehow to $ 105. Where I normally go in Wilmington, NC; I could have gotten two of that size in greater detail and gotten them for $ 80. We were from out of town and I really wanted the tattoo… So obviously I still got the tattoo. When I wanted to change my placement for the same size from my wrist to behind my ear he wanted to charge me extra! Don’t waste time money or effort here like I did just to end up getting something where you don’t want it. Bad business logic and not very friendly. Just getting 3 stars because the actual tattoo artist was a super nice guy. The guy up front totally ruins the business.

I’ve been wanting a tattoo for more than 10 years but never had a) a design I loved or b) had the courage. Finally found both, and chose Tattoo Paradise because I liked the designs of all of the artists so liked that I could walk in and would be happy with the work of whomever was on duty. Highly recommended.

I came in a week ago to get a double cartilage piercing. Brian did a great job! He was very matter-​of-​fact and self-​assured, and definitely knows his art. He kept me updated on what he was doing throughout the process, left me with extensive advice, and made sure that I knew when to contact him if anything went wrong. It feels fine and looks awesome — thanks Brian!

They were super professional and clean. They also opened new packages of material, which was nice. My friend was very nervous but she was able to make it through the process. In total, she received 1 ear piercing and 1 tattoo.

Am a DC boy living in Oakland CA these days, so was in town to see my folks and wanted a DC flag with 202 and DC punk X. Had seen Paradise a bunch and today was the day I went. Prices were outstanding, service was awesome and my artist (Nikki) was fast, professional, friendly (and really cute)!
This was a top notch experience and when I’m back in DC with time and $$, this is where I’m getting inked in my city.
PS-​got to meet Shawn Brown from Dag Nasty there as well! HELL YEAH!!!

I would not recommend going here. My good friend got an ear piercing and they wouldn’t let me go back with her to watch her get it. It was actually a rule at this parlor because the «room is too small.» I also thought about getting a tattoo and they told me that it wasn’t what people typically get. Like obviously I don’t want a basic tattoo. Service was horrible. Store morals were awful. Not where I would ever get anything done compared to previous experiences.

I can’t speak for the tattoos done because I didn’t get one, however 2 of my friends and I got piercings here a few months ago. All of ours got infected AND we had to remove them. I got a tragus done which subsequently got infected and I had to have a professional remove it. He then informed me that the earring put in for my tragus piercing was actually the wrong type of earring. Secondly, my friend got a front helix that she had to subsequently take out because the skin was growing around the piercing. She realized upon inspection that they had used the wrong earring when originally piercing it. My third friend got a cartilage piercing which she also had to take out because it too, got infected.
Basically, please do not subject yourself to getting a piercing here if you are in the mood for one. Again, can’t say anything about their tattoo capabilities, but I would not return for a piercing unless I would want to waste money and receive a piercing with the wrong earring.

I wanted to wait until my tattoo heal a bit, before I wrote a review. Truth is the customer service here could be a little better, and this place is a bit overpriced, but at the end of the day I love my new ink and would recommend Scott for any of your tattoo needs! Let him have his cigarette break first, then he’s good to go lol

Great place! Got my first tattoo here. Everyone was very friendly and helpful and made sure I got the perfect design. Have already recommended to others. Little pricey but worth the quality of work.

This was a last minute decision to get tattoos so I looked online to see which shops did walk-​ins & Tattoo Paradise had popped up. Me & my sister wanted to get matching tattoos & we had a great experience.
We got to the shop around 7 to talk about what we wanted to get & showed pictures of our idea. The manager (whose name I unfortunately forgot.) greeted us & he was so friendly. He told us that it would take them a little while to sketch up what we wanted to get. Overall the wait was about an hour since it was starting to get a little busy but we were completely fine waiting. We filled out the paperwork & were quoted prices. Mine was $ 150 & my sister’s was $ 180 since her tattoo was going to have a little more detail added onto it.
Our tattoo artist was Billy & he was by far one of the best artists I’ve gotten tattooed by. He was very nice & made the experience wonderful. Our tattoos took about 45 minutes to finish & came out looking amazing. This is probably my favorite tattoo I’ve gotten so far. The detail is on point & he replicated exacted what I wanted.
The workers know what they’re doing & will make your visit here great! I highly recommend everyone to come here if you guys are looking to get awesome tattoos done by amazing artists.

My fiancée had gone into Tattoo Paradise with two of her friends who were getting piercings done. My fiancée used this opportunity to purchase some additional jewelry herself and selected a pair of delicate carved earrings. To transport the items, the workers at the shop chose a collapsible flat cardboard container that requires you to squeeze the sides to assemble the ends. Instead of assembling the container before putting the earrings inside, they put the earrings inside and squeezed the sides thereby crushing the earrings and breaking them. When discovering this as soon as we got home, we called up the shop to see if we could return the goods they damaged for store credit or exchange. They refused any and all concessions.

I have had two piercings done here and each one was a very pleasant experience. The piercers were very friendly, answered all my questions, and talked me through each step. Will defiantly go back if I want to get another piercing! :)

As soon as I walked in to TP I was instantly acknowledged. I had called earlier and the gentleman remembered and assured me that a piercing specialist would be out to speak with me. Erika/​Erica (not sure on spelling) shortly approached me after finishing with her last client. She answered all of my ridiculous questions and guided me to forms and jewelry selection. In the piercing room (VERY CLEAN, ORGANIZED, NON-​THREATENING AND SANITARY), Erika professionally took the reigns and insisted that I relax and let her do all the work. What a relief! She was so swift and confident it was truly a pleasure to be her client. I can’t wait to come back and inquire about a quarter sleeve tattoo. Thanks Tattoo Paradise team, keep on keepin on.

Not a bad tattoo place, but I’m giving it 2 stars, because I am not pleased with the service I received when I went in to get a very small dc flag tattoo on my wrist (and it was almost $ 100!). I was a walk-​in on a Saturday evening so I ended up waiting about 30 minutes. After my tattoo artist placed the stencil on my wrist I looked in the mirror and loved how it looked but he told me it was upside down which made me rethink how I wanted it for a couple minutes, because ya know… it’s permanent. I was looking at it and asking my friend her opinion when one of the other tattoo artists laughed at me and said I was over thinking it which I thought was a little rude because it’s permanent and my body, but whatever. The tattoo looked great for a few days but as it healed I could see that it was changing in not a good way :(I’m no tattoo expert but I have two other bigger tattoos and they turned out great. I think he went to deep because it healed blurry (it looks like an old tattoo) and I don’t think I’ll ever be 100% happy with it. Sooo, I don’t think I would go there again. This place just isn’t anything special.

You did scold me. And I did not take pictures of your art work I was looking at my monroe piercing as stated before. the original post was not purposefully deleted! When I went to update it right afterward the new post replaced the first one. And as you can see Brian used the jewelry, my face swelled badly and got infected. So your post is FALSE! Brian didn’t even want to help me pick out my jewlery at first I had to keep asking. You guys are freaking ridiculous and have no professionalism.
You can take wherever legal actions you want, because I have evidence of a bad experience. Example: the photos of my swelled up face and the infection. I also have another professional piecer that helped me with my infection and getting the appropriate jewelry put in. Also, you just admitted that you scolded me when I was at your shop!

I’ve been to this shop several times and been tattooed by Nikki and Matt. I have been very happy with the work done by both. Chris at the front desk is always very welcoming and accommodating. I will absolutely be going back — the quality of their work speaks for itself.

After visiting other shops in the DC area they were in fact gouging me. By roughly 25−35% the market price. I had other quotes in the 170 – 190 range. He was correct that SD does have a more competitive market that does drive cost down however so it was not as much of a gouge as I had initially thought.
To address some of his points, I only spoke to one employee (whoever works the counter) and was told that an artist «was busy» she just ran back and forth between the artist despite requesting to speak to one.
My budget is not the issue the issue is the fact that a tattoo was given a price far over a fair market value.
This post is about the shop’s professionalism and business practices. His snarky post further proves that it wasn’t an employee that was having a bad day rather it is the management and the shops culture. If I had been invited me back for a consult and we could’ve shook hands and my update to my comment could’ve been drastically different. Even if I didn’t agree with the end result of the consult.
Whatever, good luck with the shop. Just be ethical in the future.
All about Karma.

tattoo paradise was a horrible experience, they told me specifically that because i was an «african american» woman they wouldn’t let me get my tattoo in black. then proceeded to tell me that the tattoo in reference to my meaningful experience at the Holocaust museum was a bad idea and they «do not do bad tattoos.»
I questioned about their sanitation policy and the man with glasses and the gauges then told me «put your cigarette out on me?.» I was super uncomfortable and i drew my line when he told me «needs to be bigger. I’m giving it to you bigger.»