This is what Tim did. Be careful with your artist. The top part was his first piece. When I went back the bottom date is what he did. Looks more like an amateur than a professional. read more

Private Ink - Lousy and unprofessional work bt tim - Tattoo Near Me - Libertyville, Illinois

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Got a 2 step tattoo with my son's name and birthday. He did a wonderful job. Went back to have his date of death. I told tim my son passed August 19h. Instead of putting 8/19, he put 9/19 . The tattoo looks like an amateur did it. When I returned for him to make the 9 look like an 8, he yelled the whole time he tried to fix it. He even called me stupid 2 times. I'm sure if I had been a male he would not have treated them like that. He is very unprofessional when he makes a mistake. read more

Best shop around. Clean and quality artists won't dream of going anywhere else! Definitely check them out!

Tony worked on my tattoo and did a great job, he payed very close attention to detail, leaving me a clean tattoo! Definitely recommend to everyone! read more

Walked in yesterday around 5pm with a friend from out of town. We wanted a friendship tattoo, and only had a half of an idea planned out, and a bad one at that. Chad, our tattoo artist, showed us incredible patience and kindness while taking his time going over different ideas that would be better than our original. The time he took making sure we walked out happy and satisfied is beyond a level of professionalism that I expected. We are both grateful to have beautiful peices of art and at a very reasonable price. Thank you Chas and everyone on the Private Ink team for such a lovely experience! Will certainly be back to get color added in. :) read more

"Greeted" with terrible customer service. When i asked simple questions that any knowledgeable shop owner should know, i was greeted with hostility. For example, what style do you specialize in? The response i received was "Look it up on Instagram." We were also told that walk ins haven't been allowed due to covid, but the reviews from the past couple months show otherwise. Will never let them tattoo me. read more

Got my first tattoo here and Tanya made the experience super comfortable. She was super informative about the many questions I had. She does amazing work! read more

Went to get my nipple pierced here, Jake and Billy are wonderful and regular customers at my job. Jake did the piercing and was helpful and calm about the whole thing. He did a great job and I love it. He is doing my other one soon and an upcoming tattoo. Great set up for the shop and everything is very clean. The guys are really cool and relaxed. Great place, always recommend. ALL PIERCING ARE $30 except for industrial because those are two piercings. Those are $40. Perfect job on everything. UPDATE: got my other nipple pierced and it looks perfect and it's lined up great. Also got my tattoo done and he traced a picture I sent him and then hand drew the feathers out in sharpie on my back. The outcome is nothing short of perfect. It looks great and he eventually wants me to come in so he can do some highlighting on the feathers. We were time crunched and managed to put what should have been at lest a 4 hour tattoo into a 2 and a half hour gap and it still turned out perfect, I really couldn't be happier. read more

Private Ink - He hand drew the feathers and it looks perfect! I always get nervous when people free-hand but he has a steady hand. - Tattoo Near Me - Libertyville, Illinois

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I had a really great experience here. Got my first tattoo done with Tony. He was AWESOME! I was very nervous since it was my first one but he walked me through the whole thing. Would totally come back and see him for my next tattoo!! read more

I came in for a walk in and Tanya gave me such an amazing tattoo. All the staff is very friendly. Pricing is perfect as well, they don't overcharge. Definitely recommend and will be going back! read more

Private Ink - Finished tattoo - Tattoo Near Me - Libertyville, Illinois

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Private Ink I love you!!! You have not once messed up anything. My tats are lovely, my piercings great. ALL PIERCINGS ARE $30! New hoops are just $5, and they are very high quality. I used to go here once a week. They give me my jewelry free because I am a good customer. They are nice and professional. Free touch ups for life in tats. If they were in Chicago I would never go anywhere else. Sadly, they are in the burbs, so I rarely get to go anymore :( Ask for Jake or Billy. My faves. :) read more

Love private ink, ask for Jake. He did a really awesome tattoo for me (it was my first) and I brought him my drawing, he redrew it & made it look even better and the experience wasn't bad. The tattoo came out better than I was expecting . I am planning on going back again soon. Clean shop? Check Privacy? Check (I think it's weird when tattoo shops have you out in the open) Good prices? Check Talented tattoo ARTISTS? Check (with emphasis on the word artist, tattoos are artwork, not just some thing you get bc you wanna look 'hood') read more

Elena was amazing! She did such a great job with my tattoo and was so patient and quick! She made the whole experience relatively painless! I will definitely be back again for my next one! Elena is amazing!!! read more

WORST SHOP EVER! I highly recommend looking elsewhere if you want a good quality tattoo. They charge way more than the work is worth. Also very rude and unprofessional. Don't waist your time here they are just out for your money and all you get left with is terrible service and a shitty tattoo. read more

Great experience with a great artist! Tony is amazing! Super clean, friendly staff, great communication. Highly recommend.

I came in for a walk in septum piercing yesterday, everything was handled quickly and honestly Elena did my piercing so fast it didn't hurt that much. I've had other piercings done by her in the past so I was glad to have another good experience with her once again. I will definitely be returning for future piercing. And I've recommended this place to so many orhers read more

I got a nose piercing. I'll start by saying the piercing was actually not very painful. It just felt like someone flicked my nose really hard which wasn't even the issue. The issue was that the guy who pierced it didn't prep the area at all. He didn't use an alcohol wipe or anything to prep. He also used an actual sharpie to mark where I wanted it which was super weird to me cuz that's a permanent marker. They also only offer hoops. No studs. I thought it would be okay but with daily mask wearing, the hoop kept getting moved around and it started to get infected; even though I took care of it and cleaned the area regularly. Not just the fact that it was a hoop right out of the gate, but the gauge of the hoop was really big and I was not expecting it to be. Lastly, the guy told me only to clean it with soap and water which also was wrong because saline solution is the best piercing cleanser so I don't know why he just said soap and water. I had to take the piercing out after just one week and was really disappointed and essentially wasted my money. I suggest going elsewhere for a nose piercing. read more

Points of awesome (for those who don't want to read a long review): - Walk-in's on weekends, which means no artists booked out months in advance - Matt and Dan have done good work for my sister and I - Very well priced - Free touch ups for life - Very clean, warm environment - Happily offered licenses upon request - Great after care advice Possible con - walk-ins only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday Review: I heard about Private Ink at the nearby Bristol renfaire, from two people with stunning tattoos, one in full color the other in just black with tons of detail and shading, both done by Dan. I've been looking for somewhere to go for my first tattoo and ended up going the next Saturday, 7/12. I got there at 10:30, half an hour before the doors open, since they don't do appointments on weekends (walk-ins only is appreciated!). There were people already waiting. Chatting with them, Matt was recommended to me, but I had my heart set on Dan. Dan was really great; he listened to me and what I wanted, offered suggestions on size and how the finished piece would look if he did things certain ways (I got a stonework triquetra on my back). He even paid attention to how I wore my hair and made suggestions based on that. Once we got in there, he was done with my tattoo in about 45 minutes. He did wonderful work and gave great advice on how to care for my new ink. My family loved my new tattoo so much, my sister asked me to take her in for her first the very next Friday. When we arrived, Dan was unavailable but he came out and saw my sister and I and checked how my tattoo was healing. He suggested Matt and remembering Matt's glowing recommendation from the other people in line my first time, we went with him. He put my little sister at ease and really honored the old school line work she wanted in her tattoo (an Eeyore from the old Christopher Robin books). He was done in 12 minutes and we couldn't have been happier. read more

I had such a great experience here!!! And thank you so much Aaron for fixing my tattoo!! I will most definitely come back and be getting more!!! read more

if you call they'll say they have space but keep you waiting 30+mins. My friend and I went in for piercings, me a septum and her a belly button. Mine was super painful which I was confused bc I was told it would hurt at all and the pierced but in a HUGE UGLY HORSESHOE without showing me... after I saw it I honestly wanted to cry. (I did cry after the piercing went through) fast forward a week later.. my friends belly is super red and crusty, she even told me that it hurt her to wear high waisted jeans and I went somewhere else to look for jewelry and at that place the girl took one look up my nose and asked if it had hurt. I told her yes and she proceeded to tell me they had pierced it wrong and that's why it had hurt so much. She said if I left it in it would take longer than normal to heal and jewelry would fit a bit weird. So now I had to take it out and go somewhere else to get it redone... just don't go here. Bad service, bad experience overall read more

Awesome staff! Jake the piercing guy is really great. I had to get some ear piercings out for an MRI, he took them out and put them back in. Would definitely recommend! read more

Finally decided to get my 2nd piercing on my lobes and a helix. A little scared, but Elena was awesome, walked me through everything while she did the piercing. Barely felt a thing! So happy I did it and the piercing look so pretty! Place was nice and clean. read more

I had a limited amount of time but my heart set on getting my next tattoo before an event yesterday, so I called Private Ink and they said that while they were booked with appointments, they could likely work me in. They were extremely professional and knowledgable, and the staff was notably very polite. The tattoo is absolutely perfect. The set up of the studio is also very nice- it's, well, private. I wish I'd gotten my previous tattoos there, and would love to go there for any in the future. read more

Rude owner. Waited 20 minutes to help me while he sat in the back room on his computer. Very nasty toned. I suggest going somewhere else.

Mikey is an amateur that should not be working at a shop just yet... honestly I'm shocked he's still employed as an artist. I've gotten a few tattoos from mike and they are the worst I've had and I will be getting it all covered at some point. read more

One of my worst tattoo experiences. I tell all my friends and loved ones to avoid this place and head over to art of attatooed or lucky seven because this place is the equivalent to getting permanently scribbled on by a 4 year old. I had some asshole chubby dude with a beard tattoo me unfortunately. He was constantly an asshole and very rude about my tattoo design and kept telling me to hurry up. He rushed through the design and sped through the execution of the tattoo itself. To this day I am so disappointed because this was a tattoo that was supposed to very special but instead was butchered by some old freak with a dead pool and anime obsession. I always try to hide this tattoo until someone else can do a cover up. read more

A couple weeks ago I woke up and my nose piercing was coming out so I just took it the rest of the way out. I just got it done in June and it was my first time taking it out and I didn't really know how to get it back in on my own. I was up visiting my cousins later that day in Libertyville and we found Private Ink (which was really nearby). I explained the situation and right away they said "We don't use this kind of stud because it can break the skin but i can give you one that looks the same thats much better for you and easier to work with for $5." They explained everything and it seemed like they knew their stuff and they replaced it right then and there and were really nice. Dan did it for me and handled three teenagers asking excessive random questions quite well. He was cracking jokes and made us feel quite comfortable. My cousin ended up going back there a couple days later to get a cancer survivor tattoo on her ankle which turned out AMAZING! Thanks, Dan! read more

I've gotten 2 tattoos done here, both of which I'm pretty happy about. They were really polite and funny, overall it was a pretty good experience. This was until I decided to get a piercing here. I don't remember his name, but the guy who pierced me was very unprofessional, did not make me feel comfortable at all and in the end, it didn't seem like he knew what he was talking about. He told me that my piercing would take 4-6 weeks to heal, but when I did my research when I got home, it's much closer to a few months. And to make matters worse, he never told me how to clean it. I would have never decided to see this piercer if I knew how unprofessional he was. read more

I went to go get my nose pierced and was excited that it only costs $30, so I get it pierced only to find out that Mike decided not to tell him that it was a giant hoop with a ball on it, some people can work this but it isn't my style. So I polietly ask him to take it out and he responds in a nasty tone that he can't refund me etc and I didn't care I just really wanted it out. After he took it out he decided he'd give me a refund told me to let my nose heal and call back in a few weeks after he got a shipment of studs in. I waited a few weeks, called him back and he told me again in a nasty tone to call back the following week. I call back today and it turns out that they aren't getting the shipment and he won't re-pierce it. Basically, the guy lied to me telling me that he would re-pierce it and now he won't. Honestly, it wouldn't have bothered me so much if he were a little more polite about it, he kept on giving me this attitude and I felt like he was talking down to me, so Mike if your reading this, thanks for ruining my experience. read more