Unfortunately, on 02/15/2022 I went to 90 miles studio tattoo (located in Miami) and requested a realistic tattoo, which represents the most perfect copy of the image on your skin, of Justin Bieber. Alec, the artist, and owner of the establishment said he would do the job because realism is his specialty and that he could do it very well. I even told him that this was the tattoo of my dream, and that if he thought it wasn't the job that had more to do with his style, I could get another tattoo on the same day with him, as I had other ideas and that he could choose the one he thought that he would do better. And he said he would do Justin Bieber's tattoo.
However, the tattoo, when comparing to the original photo, has absolutely nothing to do with it.
1) First fact: the tattoo
- This final version is not a realistic tattoo.
- I didn't ask for a Justin Bieber tattoo. I asked for a realistic Justin Bieber tattoo. So, if you know what I'm talking about, you will recognize that this is not a realistic tattoo.
- The face also lacks features and effects. Looks like Justin Bieber got Botox.
- The clothes have no shape - There are no clothes. Only black blocks/squares.
- The nose in the real photo is upturned and, in the tattoo, it is angled.
- The hand has no shape.
- The cap in the tattoo has an oval part that the photo does not have.
- The flowers are terrible (zoom and you will see the decal tattoo in the final version).
2) Second fact: Negligence
- I have arrived the studio around at 12:30pm and left around 6/7pm. To make the decal took 2h (because we tested different shapes) and the tattoo was done in 1h30/2h.(approximately).
- The rest of the time, the tattoo artist asked to rest, and held meetings about cryptocurrencies because he works with that too. At one point, he even told me that he was going to stop the tattoo and get up for a meeting. Logically, tired, I warned him that I have time to leave, and I wouldn't admit it. And what was his solution? Keep doing the meeting on the phone while tattooing me at the same time.
- How can someone do a realistic tattoo at this size, with so many details in 1h30/2h? Because he did not care about the tattoo.
- After I left the studio, I was so overwhelmed that I have just realized that my arms still with the tattoo decal in many parts (not only the flower) and that they did not give me the tattoo plastic to put in my arms.
3) Third fact: Service
- At the end of the tattoo, they asked me if I liked it, and I promptly I said no, and I showed them all the facts (already listed in the first point). Alec, the tattoo artist, told me that there was nothing wrong with the tattoo, and it was the same as in the picture. The only thing he offered me was to retouch the tattoo, which is not a solution, because if he thinks that the tattoo is the same as in the photo, what is he going to do? And, if he cannot do it right in the first way, how can he fix it?
- The only thing I accepted was that he at least retouches Bieber's nose, and even then, it didn't look as it should be.
- The next day (02/16), I called the establishment because I was so devastated that I was still trying to figure it out in my head everything. And I would like to know at least what they will do to reach a consensus on how to solve this problem. Because a customer cannot just leave a store dissatisfied and leave it at that. When I called them on this day, the front desk women said as an excuse that Alec was tattooing and he couldn't talk to me - funny that when he was tattooing me, he was talking to other people on the phone - about crypto. At this point, I was so devastated that I asked my aunt to call the studio, because I just did not have energy anymore, and when she talked with Alec, she was just trying to find a professional way to fix my damage. And he replied, "she signed a contract with us", when she asked him to send us the contract, he just hung up on her. We were in disbelief that he could have hung up on us and we decided to call more times, but he didn't answer, which proves that he hung up on us.
Finally, this guy caused me physical, mental, and financial damaged because this tattoo will stay in my skin forever - not on his. He didn't even say a word to me after I said that the tattoo was not in the way that I expected. He knew that I did not want the retouched as a solution and he did not offer anything different. He just didn't do anything (which in this case, at the very least, should return the money, despite it will never repair the damage that will remain forever on my skin). He had 3 chances to do something (in the day, on the phone with me, on the phone with my aunt), and he did anything. He saw all my motivation and my happiness in the beginning of the tattoo, and in the final, he saw my face, my sad expression. He knows this, he was there. And he didn't show any concern for my dissatisfaction, even with a single word.
I do not recommend letting this guy called Alec to touch you read more