Tattoo Charlie's PRP

Gretchen always creates a beautiful masterpiece from your tattoo ideas . Highly recommend Gretchen or any other artist at Tattoo Charlie’s! Always clean, professional and never disappoints!

Had Dave tattoo me, the best tattoo artist and the waiting list is awesome you can get tattoo that same day

Ian gave me my first tattoo. He was very conversational. Also, he gave a quality tattoo with efficiency. I showed a pic of what I wanted, and he gave exactly that. Would recommend!!

All artists here are great. The shop is clean visually stimulating and I have always been blown away by the work that comes out of the minds of these artists. Highly recommend!

Was very clean place . wait list idea could use some work . we were in from out of town and we all 4 got tats , nothing big just words for them and me a small flower wrap , no big detail work but mine took along time when all 3 of them was in and out . over all good experiences and tats came out looking fine . just make it a all day thing we had plans to do other stuff but by time wait around didnt have time for much

Looking forward to my next tattoo, number 7. Amazing artists at the PRP location. Gretchen and Ian have done my tattoos. They are a professional and hygienic establishment.

I've always wanted to get a tattoo from Tattoo Charlies's. It was also recommended by a good friend who got a tattoo there already. I made the appt. Gretchen about 2 weeks in advance, paid the $'s to reserve my spot and sent a jpeg of the tattoo I wanted and where I wanted it.

Today was the day, had to take a vacation day and drive 2 hours to Louisville. We get there at 11:45AM and walked in and was told we had to leave due to a rule that no one could be in the shop until 12 noon on the dot. Okay, seemed a bit strange, so we went back to our car and waited.

We go in and do the paperwork and while Gretchen is helping some other people I noticed something was wrong with the art she was going to use for my tattoo. It was backwards. I asked about it and she said it was Tattoo Taboo to put a tattoo on that's facing backwards. And I'm okay with that, but why wasn't I told during the two weeks prior before coming up there?

I was absolutely upset and didn't understand why there had been no communication from Gretchen regarding this issue. She just made up her mind that this was how it was going to be without consulting the client/customer. Don't get me wrong, I researched her work and chose her specifically, but felt I wasn't given any type of choice whatsoever and she could decide how it was going to be on my body.

The tattoo was to be a Scottish Clan Crest, and those of you who are Scottish, would you want your clan crest changed because it's supposed to be tattoo taboo?

There were other things wrong with the wording that was chosen above what I had sent in and some things deleted without consulting me.

Again, Gretchen's work on other people looks great and is a reason I chose her. But the level of customer service I received today was unacceptable and I will let anyone know regarding getting a tattoo at the Dixie Hwy parlor.

Again I'm fine with the tattoo taboo, but I was not consulted before hand. I was even tried to be persuaded to put in/on a place I didn't want it just so the helmet on the crest would be facing forward.

Needless to say, I lost a days vacation and a tank of gas to get not get the tattoo I wanted and didn't even get my $100 back.

I will continue to go to Tai Orten at Alchemy Nashville for future tattoos and stay clear of Tattoo Charlie's.

Once again, it's okay if there is a Tattoo Taboo regarding direction. But letting the customer know before investing so much time and effort would be beneficial.

Robb H.

Just got a tattoo from the owner Jeremiah and he did amazing work. My best friend got one from Gretchen who also did an amazing job. They were super cool and I highly recommend checking them out.

WARNING: This review is long

Unfortunately I had a bad experience with the piercer, Gretchen.
I had my both my helix's pierced by her in June of 2017. Looking back I'm realizing all the red flags I had missed.
1) She piercing both my helix's while I was sitting up. People can faint while getting a piercing; thus why professional piercers prefer lying their clients down. If a person faints while sitting up, they will fall, if they fall they can a) get injured b) bust their head open c) bust their head open and have life long injuries. Then you have a lawsuit on your hands for malpractice.
2) She told me to use Dial. Not a big deal but it is a bad idea, Dial is a no-no. It is way to harsh on your piercings and will prolong healing time. Its also stated in the APP brochure she printed off and gives to her clients.
3) Her "piercing soap" is actually rebottled hand soap. To be specific, Softsoap: Antibacterial: Scent: Crisp Clean! Came across it by accident and connected the dots. Also, but a big deal but does scream "SCAM". So my advice: don't get scammed! Just buy a bottle at your groceries store!

Fast forwarding to a year (June 2018) I returned to her because I was having problems with one piercing. I told her it was still crusty and flares up; her reply was "you slept on it". I never mentioned my sleep habits but I try staying off of it at night, I'm not dumb. I replied with "can you look at it though?" Because she hadn't even looked at it and was telling me I slept on it. She glanced at it and told it was fully healed. Then she tried selling me an $80 (think that was the price, just know it was over the top expensive) stud that was smaller than the bar! It would just slip right through my piercing!
The reason for me making a review now is that I recently decided to retire the piercing (because it wasn't healing and I was tired of being afraid of it getting infected) and it closed up and scabbed over immediately, which is doesn't happen with "healed" piercings. Now you can't even tell I ever had a piercing. It was also a year and 10 months old.

On the bright side! My other piercing is completely fine and fully healed! I even changed the jewelry a few times (with surgical steal jewelry, of course).

Gretchens "I know more about your piercing than you do and I don't even need to look at it" attitude has resulted in me vowing to never returning to Tattoo Charlies. Specially this location. And I highly doubt I'm the only one, given her reviews. I've noticed a running theme with Gretchen is how dismissive she is with her clients and how she thinks she knows more about their bodies than they do. 20 years of experience is not a good arguing point if those 20 years were spent practicing malpractice. I think Gretchen will benefit greatly with proper training (or retraining), even better if she became certified with the Association of Professional Piercers, specially since she uses their brochures. Or in the very least a refresher course.
I regret getting too excited about getting piercings and thought "20 years" and a few photos made her a good piercer to go to.

I'm attaching images before I retired the piercing, the night after I retired and a few days later when the scab fell off. It's a bit hard to see but hopefully it helps someone.

Had 3D nipples put on by Gretchen. They look amazing. Glad there's someone like her around to make mastectomy patience feel and look somewhat again. Thank you Gretchen