Scorpion Tattooing

Extremely dissapointed that your shop condones the stealing of other tattooists designs. Alexadra fische designed an adorable cupcake CUSTOM for a client in her PA shop. Your artist, Rebekah decided to tattoo that exact design (and I do mean EXACT– it wasn’t altered at all) on her client. and yes, in Rebeka’s IG account, she admits she KNEW it wasn’t her design, but Alexandra’s. How awful for the client that paid Alexandra for a custom design to now have it tattooed on someone else. Unbelievable.
I’m spreading the word for people to avoid your shop at all cost. No Honor.

Beka has been doing my custom full sleeve for the past few months and it’s coming out amazing. I would highly recommend her to anyone.

I went in here looking for help with a cover up. I was hoping to cover an old tat with some colorful mushrooms. I was told that the only thing that would cover it was solid black. The options he offered were an eight ball and the grim reaper.
I’m glad I got a second opinion from FTP Ink. Chris did a beautiful, colorful piece that covers beautifully.
Scorpion has a very old school approach, and the staff wasn’t terribly friendly.

Pretty much laughed out of the place. Came in with a very simple design and needed a little help executing it – nope. The guy who greeted me was a complete tool and wouldn’t give me the time of day. Woke up that day thinking I was finally going to get my tattoo, only to realize that no one would help me. I’ll be finding someone else to do the job while these guys figure out how they should greet their fucking customers.

The space looked nice, they had several artists books available for viewing. Unfortunately no one ever came to the front desk to greet us. After waiting 10 minutes someone finally did come to the desk, looked at us and walked right by to the front door. After that I was all set on going somewhere else. I understand they can be busy but they should at least greet potential customers and tell them they are busy. We finally walked out and were never asked by the employee standing by the door if we needed any help. I guess they are doing really well and don’t need any new business.

My first experience with Scopion was about 7 years ago when I went there for my very first tattoo. Being young and overly excited, I looked past the fact the guy walked right by me standing at the counter to go outside to smoke a cigg before even greeting me. Tattoo was simple. Artist warmed up after starting. Did a good job. Paid. Left.
Second experience was about 4 years ago. Again, simple enough design on my thigh. The guy who did it (don’t even remember his name) basically gave off the «This isn’t an elaborate $ maker so its a waste of my time» attitude. Tattoo results = not what I asked for. Outline bled. All black tattoo and it isn’t even the same shade on part of it. AWFUL! Totally ruined my desire to ever get one again. I finally just found another tattoo artist who i trust enough to have fix it.
I’ve heard many people say if Tyler isn’t doing it, don’t even bother.

I walked in one day because I was in New Hampshire and bored and honestly– why not get another tattoo. I gave my idea to Frankie who had it drawn up in about 20 minutes and then we were on our way.
This place is clean, they play good music and the staff is very entertaining and good at what they do. The colors are amazing and I’m being complimented on this piece almost daily.

I have never had a tattoo before and I was very picky on where I wanted to go for my first time. My friends had actually been there a few weeks prior to me going, and they said the place was great, prices were good, and they were clean. The day I went in, I showed a rough idea on what I wanted from google. What the artist came back with was way better than I could ever imagine being. It was PERFECT! He informed me when he was about to start the first line, and when he did my first reaction was «that was it»? Lol. Anyway, I would go back to get other tattoos done there. The guy who did my tattoo was Frankie, and he was awesome. He always asked me how I was doing, and would talk to me every now and then. I havent gotten a tattoo done by anyone else there, but I think I’m sticking to Frankie.

Gotta tell you, I know some people who recommend this place highly, and their work looks good. Of course they got sleeves that cost thousands.
When it comes to a tattoo costing a couple hundred bucks, they are lazy. I’ve shopped around for tattoos multiple times, I know the «GTFO» look and the lazy «MEHHHH» attitude.
My girlfriend wanted a tattoo on her foot of a compass, it was an intricate compass, not just something simple, but obviously it couldn’t be too huge, and coloring wasn’t necessary, just shading, etc.
We didn’t say we were expecting to pay a certain price, we didn’t talk price. We already had it drawn up and on a file on her phone. This young kid concedes to an old timer, he comes out and goes «Well I mean you should come back with it actually drawn up, because it’ll take me an hour or two to draw that, and I charge 25 bucks an hour, so a 100 – 200 dollar tattoo will cost 50 more than it needs to».
I’ve drawn all my tattoos, I have sketchbooks full of more I’d like to get too. Every artist who has done them, takes the tattoo because they like the drawing and I’ve gotten charged very little for big peices taking hours to tattoo. But, they took me about an hour to draw, if that. Drawing a tattoo like this on transfer paper doesn’t take an hour. Get over yourself.
So that was his first «GTFO» line. I know how tattoo shops work, they are freelance much of the time and the shop gets a cut, I have friends and acquaintances in the business who are incredibly talented. I mean, Dragons Lair Tattoo (now Shogun in Salem NH) did a simple tattoo for me for 60 bucks, and that was the owner. This is an hour tattoo at the most. And there was no one in the place, why not take the business?
I offered to e-​mail the file to the guy, or he could just print a compass off google image search and draw in whatever she wanted. He literally, looked at me and didn’t answer, then kept going on about how he’d charge more for drawing it. It was like he didn’t understand what a computer was… It’s like an engineer that still hand draws on graph paper on a drafting table, obsolete.
So we went to the new satellite store of Waynes Tattoo, FTP tattoo, on East Broadway in Derry. He went on Google Image search, within five minutes they chose a compass to work off of, He drew it up, charged 100 bucks total, had it done in 45 minutes, and said «Come back in a few weeks, I’ll see if you need any touchups and make sure it healed okay.»
We got his e-​mail and he found her on Facebook so she could get a hold of him easier. We live across the street from the shop… so it couldn’t be much more convenient. He was so great, my girlfriend gave him a 40 dollar tip. She couldn’t be any happier.
We found out after, he used to work at Scorpions apparently. Apparently he didn’t enjoy them much either. hahaha.
I gave them two stars because I have seen work they do and it is good, but they are elitist A-​holes for no apparent reason. You’re not on Miami Ink, you’re in a hole in the wall between Enterprise and a Sub shop in Derry NH… get over yourself.
If you can’t adapt with the times, GTFO of the business. They lost a lot of potential future business for the shop and the artist with their laziness. I was looking for myself as well, for a shop locally that is personable and have a certain style to replicate my drawings into a tattoo, possibly offer a unique perspective of their own as well. They are not that shop.

Greeted by a guy who insulted us when he thought we were outside of «hearing range», then the «artist» who consulted with us was a condescending hipster who couldn’t give us an accurate price range ($ 250 to $ 500 is a pretty broad spectrum). Overall bad vibe. All set. Won’t be back.

Clean, professional, and high quality work is what this place boasts.
I was referred here by a friend, and the artist I chose, Tyler Malek, was very professional. He was prompt to get back to me, and captured the vision for my tattoo perfectly.
I was able to sit in on another person’s session, and I was impressed with his clean and comfortable his studio was! When it came time for me to be tatted (it was my first tattoo, and spanned across a good amount of my right side), he let me know what to expect, and made the whole experience very comfortable for me.
Their prices are amazing for their custom work; it’s worth every penny to be tattooed by a talented artist who works in a clean and safe environment. I recommend this place to everyone who is looking for tattoos, and guaranteed I will only be going back here for future work.