They do not pierce anyone under the age of 16. Signs on the door say this, but didn't see the info on their website. That info would have saved me a wasted trip. Disappointing! read more

I called and emailed in regards to getting a tattoo to memorialize my Dad. He just passed in July. no one responded to me. I emailed from several different email addresses and called different times. apparently they pick and choose their clients. Thanks for nothing during this difficult time in my life. I wouldn't give any stars but the sire made me. read more

I took my Dad for his first tattoo after we lost my youngest sister at the age of 46 on December 6. This was completely unexpected. Christopher talked to us and designed, for my 76 year old Dad, a beautiful tattoo. He took great care of Dad and the finished product is amazing. He also did mine, which is totally different from Dad's with a completely different vibe but really works for me. Christopher was wonderful for both of us. Our tattoos are very different and unique bur equally beautiful. We are both very happy. Thank you Christopher read more

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I recently went to get my nose pierced with my best friend at 717 Tattoo and I can't express enough how great the experience was. Rev was super professional and friendly. I have a big fear of needles and I was very nervous but they were just so COOL that I felt completely at ease. Virtually painless as well! Cant recommend this place enough. read more

Terrible experience don't go to this location! Called in yesterday to try and make an appointment for today and they told me they do not take appointments for Sunday's. They only do walk ins. So I arrived when the shop opened. They lady with orange hair told me they were running late and to wait. Then she prosecuted to help another girl who had an appointment. That was fine I asked to start my paper work and she told me no. Then I waited a half hour before another person helped me and he told me that there was three appointment until they could do me and wanted me to come back later. After I waited a half hour thinking I was waiting on the tattoo artist to you know show up to his job on time. Horrible service and customer service skills do not go here for your tattoos the other locations are so much better. read more

Was in town and wanted to get my daughter and I small (2"x2") matching tattoos. Called when they opened and they said they dont do walk-ins until 5. We wanted to have dinner first. Came by at 7:45. There was not a single customer in the place and when I asked if we could get the work done the answer was they close at 9 so they weren't doing anything else. Since we already had a poc of what we wanted and the small size of the tat we wanted, that is more than enough time. If that is how they do business by stopping work over an hour before they close, then glad I didnt get it done there. Total lack of professionalism and work ethic. It likely would have shown in the work. read more

They are all friendly and professional... Joe was the artist we had. We wanted something small, last minute, and a specific design- 3 things tattoo artists don't want to hear. But they were awesome and got us in right away :) very happy with our tats! read more

717 Tattoo - Tattoo Near Me - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

I kind of can't believe this place doesn't have any reviews on Yelp honestly. Looking up tattoo shops in Harrisburg, this was always the first one that popped up and always intrigued me the most. On first glance - all the artists have great portfolios, their website is well organized and informative, and the shop is clean and nice. Overall, I couldn't be disappointed with that. I chose to go in to schedule an appointment - I was pretty open to whomever doing the tattoo I wanted simply because there wasn't a single person there whose work wasn't impressive. I ended up scheduling with Brad for a Thursday evening after work. The experience was nice. Everyone there is nice (I can't be sure, but I'm fairly awkward myself, so if people are nice to me, I generally just think they are nice because I'm not overly bubbly or out going) and the place is comfortable. The tattoo was done perfectly and I left happy. More importantly, the next day when a friend mentioned a mistake she thought she saw (thought a photo, I really don't know anyone here, at least not well enough to go parading a tattoo to) and I panicked (with a tattoo on your back, not only is it hard to see, but you can't really read anything) Brad was happy to basically console my insanity and take a photo for me. Which was really nice and something he definitely didn't have to do as I was just being completely and utterly wacky. There was nothing wrong. At all. It was perfect. I am nuts. Let me reiterate. I am insane, the tattoo is amazing. Overall, a great experience. Everything was clean and well done and I felt it was fairly priced. Then again, I'm not one to mess with someone putting something permanent on my body - same principle as don't mess with people who make your food. I'd definitely go back here in the future. read more

I got my nose pierced here a little over a year ago by Rev and I would say he is well-experienced and very informative. Today I went in to have him look at a navel piercing after having it done at another shop because I was having some complications. He was very helpful and thorough in explaining the error of the piercer and accommodated me with the issue. Needless to say I think I will be coming back to him for any piercings in the future!! :) read more

I got a tattoo that says "just breathe" on my wrist because I suffer from anxiety. When choosing the font I told the guy I wanted the writing thin like.. Almost like I was directly writing it on my wrist, he got irritated with me and said that won't happen and that tattoos cannot be written in such thin writing and eventually talked me into bold font. I believed him and I see wonderful beautiful tattoos that are thin. To this day I hate my tattoo and the guy was not welcoming AT ALL, and made me feel as if my ideas were stupid. This was two years ago, maybe things have changed but this is the story I have every time someone asks me about the meaning of my tattoo. All I see is something I in my heart didn't truly want. I'll never do that again... I just fell for truly believing that the font I wanted could not be done. read more

I went in to see about getting a new tattoo and asked the man at the desk how to go about that and he gave me the business card of Anthony because apparently he had the clearest schedule and told me the best way to reach him and get the answers I was looking for was to DM him a picture asking these questions to which I was ignored completely , if that's how you guys do business I wonder how anyone gets a tattoo. Will be going elsewhere now read more

Went to 717 based on other Yelp reviews. Was able to get a walk-in appointment. I had a quote and a graphic picked out but no actual design. They made me feel very welcomed and comfortable from the get go. I was assigned to Anthony, was extremely nice and welcoming and offered any assistance he could. He took my idea and in a little while had created a really cool design that I loved. He was patient and friendly throughout the whole procedure. It's my fourth tattoo so I wasn't apprehensive or anything. The entire staff was great and the atmosphere is clean and very inviting. You should definitely go and you should ask for Anthony to be your artist. I moved from New York so this was my first experience with an artist in Pennsylvania but I'll never go anywhere else as long as I'm in the area. Thanks 717 of Harrisburg and especially Anthony!!! read more

Laci Hess is a good artist and easy to work with during the design process. I typically look for artists that show some artistic flexibility. She was all of that. I would definitely want to work with her again. Studio was clean and sanitary. No smoking inside of studio. read more

Rev is the best piercer in the area. He's done three out of my give facial piercings and I won't go to anyone else. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Rev specializes is so much more than piercing - he can do scarification, tongue splitting, suspensions, etc. Customer service is great. I get so nervous before every piercing but Rev always makes the experience a great one. read more

If I could give this place zero stars and give the artist who did my tattoo (Joe Celenzo) zero stars, I'd happily do that. I went to this guy for a band tattoo, which I knew was hard to do in the first place. I asked him several times if he felt confident about doing it even though it's a complex tattoo. He assured me that he was. Then, when he actually did it, he didn't want to change the stencil even though I told him there was an issue. When he actually did the tattoo, he simply had me hold my wrist up in the air while he rushed through. No rubber band, no measurement, nothing. He claimed, very condescendingly, "It'll look uneven no matter what when you move your wrist around. I'm not an inkjet printer." I should have left then, but he was already started. The clients up after me showed up before he even started my tattoo with the information that their appointment time had passed already, and he informed them that he'd "be with them shortly," rushing through the work for my tattoo as they waited. I get the sense that he didn't like the idea for the art and therefore didn't want to do his best work, but he certainly didn't say so as I shelled out nearly $300 for a band that ended up entirely, noticeably crooked. When I say crooked, I mean objectively, noticeably from a distance, crooked. He told me before starting that this tattoo was a "thing" and had been "done before," but I didn't think that meant he'd wing it and totally ruin a tattoo that meant a whole lot to me on a personal level. THEN, when I contacted the owner, she acted like she would help. She met me at the Mechanicsburg studio (which she also owns) and was insanely friendly, I will admit. I thought things were going to work out from there. However, she kept talking me out of removal and saying she could fix it. She touched it up a tiny bit, then told me to contact her once it healed if it needed more work. I did, several times, then even called, and she would not get back to me to schedule another appointment. Months later, horrible tattoo that's still totally crooked, and as far as I'm concerned this place owes me the cost of full removal, though I know that will never happen. I have never had an ink experience like this one, and I hope I never have one again. Oh, and just a heads up, my husband's tattoo, also done by Joe, ended up off-center and crooked too. Surprise, surprise. TLDR: DO NOT GO HERE. DO NOT LET YOUR FRIENDS GO HERE. DO NOT LET YOUR FAMILY GO HERE. JUST DON'T. read more

GO HERE!!!! Laci Is Awesome. Best female artist around. I had a horrible tattoo that I got from a shop in mech. But luckily 717 was there to save it:) read more

I've been hearing about 717 Tattoo for years, so they were the first place I called trying to get work done. Whoever answered the phone for the Mechanicsburg location was extremely rude. I know Saturdays are busy, so walk-ins aren't always available, but this person just said "no - try another location" and when I asked about appointments for Sunday I was told she wasn't even going to check, and then she hung up on me. If I had been rude about Saturday being booked I would understand that, but her customer service was shocking. They didn't do any work on me, and I've never set foot in one of their shops, but that experience alone told me all I need to know, and I will never attempt to get work done here again. read more

I went last year to get a tattoo here with the artist Joe Celenzo. I accepted a lot of things that felt off because it was my first tattoo and I didn't want to cause a fuss. My wife and I were both scheduled for tattoos. We got there early to be polite and ended up waiting a bit and chatting with another couple that came in after us. While chatting we realized that the couple after us was scheduled to start soon with Joe as well - He had only scheduled something like a half hour for our tattoos and was telling the couple who he should have been starting soon that he'd start theirs soon before he even got one of us started. He seemed to be in a rush, but I just kept telling myself that it was in my head. After sitting with the tattoo a while, it's easy to see he didn't even stay even within the stencil. After me he rushed through my wife's tattoo, and after a ton of assurances that "it only looks a little off right now, it will look correct once it's healed and finished" etc. etc. hers got screwed up too. He kept saying "don't expect me to be an inkjet printer" and I totally get that. What I don't get is rushing through a tattoo and leaving uneven lines and scars. Also, I definitely got the feeling that if Joe thinks your tattoo is boring, you're going to get a pretty rushed job. If you want a 'simple' design that means a lot to you, find someone who will still give it their A-game. read more

I went into the 717tattoo in Harrisburg (on Jonestown Rd) on 12/13/2013 at around 5:00pm to obtain more information on a custom tattoo I wanted to have completed. The receptionist who help me was fantastic, she asked a lot of questions and was great in helping me. I decided to go with 717tattoo to have my custom tattoo designed(a medical alert tattoo, since I am highly allergic to eggs) and applied, I chose Brad as my artist. The receptionist told/asked me to send an email to Brad with some design ideas that I liked, and he would create a design from there. Before I left I gave her a $50 deposit and also scheduled to have my tattoo applied on 12/29/2013 @ 1:00pm. On 12/15/2013, I sent an email to Brad (brad@717tattoo.com) with several pictures and a very detailed description of what I was looking to get. I sent a follow-up email on 12/17/2013 to Brad to see if he received my 1st email, and still did not hear anything back. On 12/27/2013, since I still did not hear anything from Brad, I went on the website to try to find out what was going on. Info@717tattoo.com emailed me back and said they sent a message to Brad to contact me, and, he would get back to me ASAP (this was at 10:46am), they also apologized for the delay. I sent an email back to info@717tattoo.com, thanking them for the efforts in trying to reach Brad, but, I still did not hear anything. At this point, I am really upset that the artist never got back to me, since I was asking for custom work, and price was never a limitation. I knew going in that custom work is always more expensive, and I was willing to pay. Because of non-replies from Brad and not knowing what was going on, I asked for my deposit back, which I was told I could not get back, which did not make me happy. I decided that maybe Brad was just really busy. He did, finally, email be back on 12/27/2013 @ 4:05pm, in which he states he would be ready for my appointment and not to worry. On 12/29/2013 @ 12:30pm I arrived at 717tattoo, on Jonestown Rd, in Harrisburg. When I arrived I found out from the only artist there (I believe his name was Rob), that Brad was not there and he had no idea when he would be arriving. The gentleman did make several phone calls to find out Brad would not be in, he did let me speak to the manager. From what I was told by the manager, Brad's grandmother was not doing well and was in the hospital. I understand that things happen but, Brad (or anyone for that matter) could have emailed, called, or texted me. I do know that Brad would have had my email, since the only email I ever received from him was sent from his IPhone. The manager did try to find another artist to do my tattoo, but it would not be until 6:00pm. This would not work for me since I have to be at work at 2:00am. I asked the manager if I could get my deposit back because at this point I am so upset with Brad and 717tattoo that I do not want to do business with them. The manager stated that the deposit is non-refundable. I understand a non-refundable deposit, IF, it is the fault of the customer, but I did everything I needed to do. Sent emails to the artist, and showed up for my scheduled appoint (by the way, I was 30 minutes early). Since it was the artist (Brad) and the company (717tattoo) that failed to contact me regarding scheduling and how the design was progressing I would like to have my deposit returned. I no longer feel that 717tattoo can be reliable. NOTE --- I emailed the CEO of the company and was told, that I am being inconsiderate, since my artist family member was on their death bed. And to the CEO --- You are telling me that no one knew an employee would not be comming in?!?!!?!? read more

This place has the worst business practices I've ever had the displeasure of encountering. Canceled my appointment and would not refund my deposit. Lied, and deployed awful business practices throughout the entire ordeal. I don't even have a tattoo yet, but the horrible business practices made the experience a nightmare. read more

My best friend and I wanted to get heart tattoos on our left pinky fingers and this shop was recommended by their mechanicsburg location. I know a lot of places won't do finger tattoos so I decided to call yesterday(Friday) to find out if they would do it. The girl answered the phone and I explained to her what we wanted. Moments later she gets back on the phone and tells me to go ahead and come in the following day and if I wanted to reserve an appointment that I would need to leave my credit card info. I opted not to and told her we would be there between 4-4:30pm which she said is fine. My best friend and I show up and we are promptly told that no one there knows anything about the phone call and no one there will do finger tattoos. The manager comes up to the counter and again tells me the same thing, which is fine, I never want to force anyone to do anything they don't want to. They treated me as if I was a liar and sarcastically told me to have a great day on my way out the door when I tried to tell them to teach their staff better ... Totally disappointed in the way I was told there was miscommunication which there wasn't, I was told one thing and once I get there I'm told something completely different ~ what a waste of time! Please, 717, try to staff your shop with people who know what they're talking about read more