Piercing near Aptos

“Many many years ago I had a tattoo done at Freedom tattoo. It came up in conversation today and I decided to jump on Google to show it to my friend.

Almost 8 years ago I had my tattoo done by one of the shop apprentices. I had initially booked an appointment to have it done by Cruz but he was sick that day. Since it was a commemorative tattoo they made it work.

8 years later, many of hours exposed to sunlight and general life wear and tear working construction and the tattoo held up and has been combined with my full sleeve.

*note I'm from Canada and the surrounding tattoos were done here where there is different ink laws for tattoos hence the different colors.

Additionally, I wanted to say shout out to Geoffery for making it happen. None of us would of known back then that this tattoo would also be the symbol of the last time I saw my cousin from California before they passed.“

“Before you read any further I would like make it clear that the piercer herself was AMAZING she made me feel extremely comfortable, shop was very clean as well as everything she used, everyone was very respectful, and the piercing was done with little to no trauma and very quickly. That being said I would like to talk about a few things, I got a tongue piercing and have a pretty small mouth and my piercings don’t usually swell too much, the bar that was used was HUGE, like so big I couldn’t close my mouth properly or talk that well without bruising the bottom of my mouth from the bottom bell. I expressed my concern and she said it’s just in case of swelling which I completely understand, but after about three days I couldn’t talk without pain from my jaw closing on the jewelry, eat properly, or sleep without drooling or bending my piercing in a slightly uncomfortable way that definitely wasn’t good for healing and began to get whitish gunk on and around the piercing so I went into another shop in SLC and the piercer there told me that the bar was definitely too large and could be the source of the irritation from sliding around a ton in my mouth and that the bar needs to be able to sit straight while healing or it won’t heal properly. Overall great experience but if I’m paying 80$ for a piercing I would like to not have to go and spend an extra 20$ on jewelry because the original piercer put an adult man mouth sized bar in my mouth“

“Clean both physically and tattoo wise ! This is my favorite tattoo location in this whole area!!! All artists are extremely talented and clean. Fair priced for tattoo or piercings, As a local I will continue to come here and always recommend to locals or as tourists.“