Macabre Tattoo and Oddities

Alessandra is a lovely artist! Very personable, really chill environment. She's super talented and thorough. My fiance and I got our most recent tattoos from her and we can't wait to go back!

I went in initially to get a second piercing in my nose. First off, they didn't have me sign any paperwork prior to getting my piercing done like a normal shop does. I went back to get my piercing, trying to make conversation and the man was a little on the rude side. I told him what I wanted done, he asked about my first piercing I had in there, I told him I wasn't sure I could take the hoop out myself as I specifically got it in by a different shop (thinking he would take it out to do my new piercing) he did not. He proceeded to do my second piercing with the other hoop still in my nose. During this process they got stuck together and he bent my first hoop that was already in my nose. I'm a pretty easy going person, so I just let it be. After I finished there was no care paperwork or original paperwork. Told me I could come back and get a hoop put in after 3 weeks.
So I did. When I went in to get the hoop put in he rumbled through boxes of jewels, some not in plastic "clean" packages, also touching the items without sanitary gloves. But again, I was calm and looked passed it. Well, I could tell he didn't have what he was looking for, asked me a few questions, then grabbed one said something about it may be uncomfortable at first as this was slightly larger than most nose rings.. I said okay.. well I do not want to make the hole bigger than it is.. he didn't respond to that. He just continued to push the piercing through! I said "ow!" and immediately "OW!" Louder (I've had close to a dozen piercings and over 5 tattoos.. I know the pain tolerance level I have with this kind of stuff) he responded with "yeah, I said it'd be uncomfortable" I didn't respond to that. I again said, I do not want to make the hole bigger! Well, he did. Put the hoop in and I was so overwhelmed I just left when it was over and said nothing. He didn't charge me for the second jewel. I'm still in pain with this second hole and plan to go to a different shop to have them help me fix this, as the jewelry is so thick I cannot bend it to take it out and change it on my own. I'll probably have to pay for in addition to the price I already paid here. I would appreciate a refund from this shop as quality customer service would do, seeing how my ENTIRE experience was unsatisfying and quite honestly a little scary when it comes to tattoo and piercing shops. We trust you guys to be safe, honest, professional and clean. I felt as almost non of this was completed at this shop.
I should have followed the other reviews and not gone here for a piercing, however Casper has slim to non places for piercings at all. If I could do it over I would have been more patient and got my piercing somewhere else.
I am typically not one to leave reviews especially negative ones, however I feel this experience should be noticed.

I hope you will have a better experience than I did, but I will not be back here again. Unfortunately.

Great artist, very personable. Very happy with her work and was a very enjoyable tattoo experience.

Cass!, For a starter and first shop tattoo experience; It was awesome, fun and energetic. 10/10 would revisit. The environment is definitely relaxed and family like.

Always love coming here. Lunchbox(Chris) is fun to talk to and funny. I always feel welcome here. I can't wait to get more tattoos.

I was searching for a perminant tattoo artist and happened to find myself in Sparx. I was welcomed instantly which is a huge plus for me. They were extremely knowledgeable and friendly. Great environment. One of the things I look for in a tattoo shop is original art work, because it means they care about the art. The shop was decorated in all of their origional work.We went in for a small wedding band tattoo and ended up getting 3. I was very impressed and would recommend them to anyone.

Shop was very welcoming and the artists were great to chat with! Got my first tattoo here and I’ll definitely be going back for my second!

I went in the 19th of March and got my tongue pierced, all went well until about two days later when I noticed the ball on my jewelry was sunk way down in my tongue. I cleaned every time I ate, drank, and smoked (which I can understand cleaning after smoking). I was given no further advice about aftercare, nothing to look out for, no side effects, you get the point. After the third day, it was becoming extremely painful, so I sent them a picture via their Facebook page explaining what was going on. All she told me to do was to raise the roof of my mouth so it wasn’t touching the ball, so I did that for two more days. It didn’t help. Still excessively cleaning as I was instructed. By the end of the second day I was in a lot of pain, so I got ahold of a buddy of mine who ran a tattoo parlor. I implied maybe the swelling was worse than normal and maybe a longer bar would work, he agreed. So I went into The Ink Spot to get a longer bar and be sure there was no infection. She gasped as soon as I opened my mouth and proceeded to tell me that SparxWorx put a regular bar in my tongue directly after the initial peircing allowing no room for swelling. It almost caused me to lose out on a peircing I’ve wanted for years and 45 dollars, and costed me an additional 10 dollars for the new jewlery. Also I was informed by the ink spot that you should clean NO MORE than 5 times a day. Here we are almost 8 days later and it’s not even half way healed yet because of a mistake. Which I understand that people make them... but you should seriously pay more attention when you’re putting a whole in someone’s body and charging them for it as a professional. I’m not saying don’t go to them, I’m just saying be sure you get someone who knows what they’re doing. It was extremely painful and more expensive than it should have been. I’m pretty upset, they won’t even reply to me about it via Facebook. So rant over.

We come all the way from Denver Colorado where there is tattoo shops on every corner to get the best every one there is friendly laid back and great artist. If you want the best place to get custom work this is it.

Went in to get my eyebrow pierced had an overall great experience. Lunchbox was great he answered all my questions and was overall friendly, I give this place a 10 out of 10!