NYC Ink

***Updated Review***
The owner of the shop, Sam, reached out to me and was eager to make the situation right. I had received help from a new employee, who was possibly having an off day. Regardless, Sam was friendly, and offered a refund or replacement jewelry which i greatly appreciated. I opted in for replacement jewelry. He sent me pictures of the tracking number and shipped it the day of the conversation. I greatly appreciate his customer service and would recommend working with him due to his help and friendliness. I’m eager to get my new nose studs!

I was randomly in the area one day and I decided «Hey, I should get my rook pierced»! The owner Sam was helpful and accommodating. He talked me through it and educated me on how to clean the piercing and keep it free from infections. He was very thorough with his instructions and overall made my experience a very comfortable one. Unfortunately, it was a bit pricey for $ 45 but I guess it’s a city thing.

So my friend and I were drunk and decided to get piercings. Classic college story right? My friend got his ear pierced, and I decided to get my scoop piercing finally. The piercer was really helpful, told my friend about tea tree oil– which most piercers forget about. The piercings didn’t hurt at all either, and they told me how to clean it and gave me an extra bar– because one of the balls fell out right after I got it. Sam is great! Really helpful, friendly and generous. I went back to get an old belly piercing fixed as well. The shop itself is pretty neat too. They also sell a variety of glass and smoking paraphernalia. I would recommend everyone to get their piercings done here– you will get good advice and tips on how to take care of your piercing, and good quality and service. They do all their piercings with needles, and use surgical steel bars and rings, which is what all piercing places should do. Definitely coming back here in the future with friends who want piercings.

Thank you to Pablo and Sam for the tattoos! Beautiful line work and very personable– key qualities of a great artist. Worth every star!

I just randomly stopped in with my siblings and got my piercing and Sam was so amazing! So informative especially so late at night. He was so great that my brother and sister also got piercings! I would definitely come back!!!

This place is the best. Pablo and Sam are awesome they run a great business. Will be back for sure.

Nyc Ink is the Most Highly Recommended location to get pierced and tattooed. Nyc Ink is Professional and very honest. I love Nyc Ink is the only place I would get a piercing and Tattoo.

100% the CLEANEST, friendliest place in the city. The shop owner was so kind, talked to me for an hour while waiting for my dad to get there to sign the papers for my nose piercing. He went over everything about the piercing, how to clean thoroughly, showed us the single packages equipment that is thrown away after one use. As for the piercing, i didnt even feel it, hurt less than a earlobe piercing. I love that he custom bends the jewelery to fit your nose perfectly. He also was kind enough to gift me a (large) bottle of organic, animal friendly, chemical free piercing aftercare oil. Thank you so much for the perfect piercing!!!

My review is only for the piercing side of things.
My fourth lobe piercings is stretched to an 8g and normally I wear tunnels with rubber rings. Somehow I managed to lose one of the rings and all my spares were in storage until I could retrieve them which was going to be in 3 – 4 days, obviously I didn’t want my tunnel to fall out during that time so I needed replacements. NYC Ink had pretty good Unilocal reviews and was on my way home and open after my late shift (I went in around midnight on a saturday) because I had an early shift the next day.
I called the shop on my break to see if they had any rings I could buy in 8g and the person on the phone said he wasn’t sure, but probably. So I went after my shift.
When I got there the piercer was standing outside talking to someone else and seemed annoyed that he had to go in and help me. I asked about there rings again, explains that I had called earlier. He pulled one out that had to have been at LEAST 0g or 00g, but it was probably bigger. It was almost laughable how wrong the size was, which as a little concerning that the piercer didn’t know sizing.
Anyway, determined not to have gone all the way here and not have my problem fixed I showed him my earring and asked what he might suggest. He said they sold double flare tunnels that would fit my piercing and he could put on in for me. Great. Then he told me I should really be wearing double flares anyway and that they don’t like dealing with the rings. Okay, not necessary but okay. He then said he’d put the double flare 8g in. This concerned me, because obviously with the double flare, the flare is a size up from the tube on the jewelry and I didn’t want to blow out my piecing because the stretch to an 8 was still fairly new. I said I’d rather a 10g double flare because I didn’t mind having to stretch back up since this was only a temporary fix. He INSISTED that i go with the 8g and that it wouldn’t blow it out. Fine, whatever, you’re the professional.
So we go in the back to put it in. The room is tiny tiny tiny, barely any room for him to move around. When he initially tried to put the jewelry in it pinched and hurt so he went to get a taper. I will acknowledge that because it’s my fourth lobe piercing, the area is a little thicker but the tunnel was plenty long enough. It probably took 15 minutes of pushing and trying different tapers and techniques to get the jewelry in. By this point my ear is sore, I can feel it swelling and then the piercer says «don’t move, I don’t want to get blood on your shirt.»
BLOOD?! WHY is there blood? There is never supposed to be blood when stretching!!! You’ve got to be kidding me. It bled for at least another 2 minutes while he held gauze or whatever to my ear. So now my ear is throbbing and sore like I’ve just gotten it pierced UGH. Whatever, I paid for my tunnel and I left.
When I got home I found that there was crusted blood all over my ear and the jewelry, so it had obviously kept bleeding and I was just so mad. I was really afraid that the whole thing was blown out, but later when I went back to my tunnel/​ring combo jewelry it seemed to be alright, I think it was maybe a tear as opposed to a blowout, but still NOT OKAY. And it pinched a lot getting the double flared jewelry out. For reference, I have 20+ piercings and 5 tattoos, I’m not stupid when it comes to body mods, and I should have known better than to let someone who was unfamiliar with my mods talk me into something I knew I didn’t want. I really wish I’d made him use a 10g piece instead or taken my jewelry out and let it size down until I could get my rings… but live and learn I guess.
Bottom Line: I would not ever come back. If that’s how the piercer is, I certainly don’t want ink from here. Hopefully I just have a fluke experience, but I won’t try again.

Professional, clean and fun group of people. Came in to get my septum pierced after having a horrible experience somewhere else. Mooshu did an incredible job and Sam, the owner, is really on top of things, helped me pick out the 14k gold ring I wanted and just smoothly facilitated the whole experience. Mooshu found my «sweet spot» and it barely hurt, a very different experience than the first time I had it done. Most importantly, it is even! I highly recommend them!

Great piercing experience! Came in late at night with two friends to get rook piercing. I let the piercer know that I am prone to fainting and was by far the most nervous so he suggested that I go first. The piercer (I believe he was the owner) was very kind and made sure I was comfortable throughout the process and kept checking on me afterwards between piercing my friends to make sure I was still ok. Prices are very fair, the place is clean and the piercer did an excellent job of making sure everyone was happy. On top of that, the piercer replaced the ball on an old cartilage piercer for free. If I am brave enough for another piercing I will most definitely return to NYC Ink!

The store owner Sam really knows what he’s doing! Got my piercings (2 upper cartilage) here and it came out perfect, exactly where I wanted them, and are healing quick!
Also they have a great selection of body jewelry and their hours are really convenient. Highly recommend this place 100%!!

Pablo is the man! Gave me a beautiful tattoo and a reasonable price for NYC. Cannot express how much it means to carry this art on my arm. Great experience for my first tat

Hands Down, cleanest and most professional establishment I’ve come across in my days. I’ve been getting inked and pierced for 9 years and for the past 2 years these are the only people allowed to alter my body. 14 tattoos and 26 piercings deep.

Once again, Sam and this shop are wonderful. Stopped in for a «check in» and Sam was so kind and friendly. He took a look and cleaned my piercings well. Again, I cannot recommend this place highly enough.

I have been going here for 3 years to get my tattoos and my piercings. Very clean and Sam and Pablo are the best.

Solid.
I lost one of the balls on my industrial jewellery (har har ok get it out of your system now, folks, there’s a lot more coming), so I removed the jewellery and planned to put it back in once I bought a replacement ball.
Three weeks passed. I finally tried to get the jewellery back in. Surprise surprise, I couldn’t get the bar back through the holes. What to do? Unsurprisingly, there are no piercing places to be found in Princeton.
I made a trip into the city and pinged this place via Unilocal (thank you dear Unilocal fam for being so clutch). Not going to lie — I was totally freaked out upon locating it. I saw the tiny location, the neon lettering signs, the walls lined with smoking gear… and thought I was definitely in the wrong place. Nope. They just multitask. I was a little concerned (since you definitely shouldn’t mix the two activities simultaneously), but I sucked it up and asked them to help me with my industrial anyway.
I got exactly what I asked for — the man working there was helpful, efficient, and professional. He got my jewellery back in with no problems and with a smile. Just to be sure, I asked what material their jewellery is made from and it’s surgical steel, which is basically what you want to be putting through your body. Good on them for that — you always want to make sure the jewellery is made out of something that is body safe.
I also saw two girls get pierced before I was helped, and they both left looking happy!
Overall, no complaints. (I do wish the location were a bit less grungy, or didn’t have all the smoking/​vaping stuff too, but those are mostly just details that would more firmly bump this place up into a seriously professional piercing studio. But as I said, it seems like their strategy is to multitask on their focuses, in which case I can’t complain. Piercing portion was solid enough.)

After having too many piercings go wrong, I was determined to have one «go right». The staff was kind, the atmosphere was calm, and the store was spotless.
My piercing healed perfectly and I am now featured on their Instagram.
Definitely check this place out!

My roommate and I found this place by accident. (We had planned to go to a different shop, but she went to this shop by mistake) when we first walked in, we were greeted right away by the piercer! (Sorry, cant remember his name!) Extremely friendly, very helpful, and offered many different styles of jewelry.
Watched him open brand new needles, the back room was very clean, and he explained what he was doing step by step. Had excellent knowledge of after care and offered to look at it a few weeks after the piercing had begun to heal.
I got my septum and my roommate got her anti tragus.
$ 45 each, which wasn’t bad considering the other shops I looked into wanted $ 60.
Nice, clean, friendly shop!

Went in today and had my right helix pierced, while my friend got a triple helix piercing. Both were done by Rob. He was so nice and easy going! He helped us as soon as we walked in and made the process of paperwork and picking out jewelery very easy. Pricing wasn’t too bad either!
We went back to the piercing room and as I sat down, he asked me how I was doing, if I was ready for the piercings, and just tried to put me at ease as much as he could.
I watched him sterilize everything he used for me as well as my friend.
I would definitely go back for any piercings or even tattoos I plan to get in the future! All in all, a great experience!