Ridgewood Tattoo Studio

Let me tell you a bit of my story I get a tattoo from Eric the buisnes owner, My experience with him was a horrible one. Although the guy has talent his techniques are off. Its not my first rodeo so I would know. In one sitting this guy took almost 6 hours to do a tat that could’ve been finished in two. He went to deep at times the tats ink bled he worked way to slow and on top of all this would not listen to anything I had to say without a contradiction. He never finished my work but then again I opted not to have it finished and hence when I gave him a bad review he retaliated calling me and my tats ghetto, called me stupid, a punk, cunt, and told me to go suck a dick. This guy is unprofessional clearly has drug issues as he ranted on of his drug use while tattooing me and his place of business is dirty. I would not recommend anyone go there let alone get tatted by this loser. I hope he matures and learns that you have to take constructive criticism when things are not done correctly. He is demeaning disgusting and lacks maturity. He should not be in business.

Found the studio in a very odd way. But that is a story for another time. Service was excellent and so was the conversation. I think I have found my artist and studio to do all of my future work. And fixing of messed up tattoos I already have due to being a sketch pad for apprentices. Very nice little shop with interesting flash and apparently the owner builds machines in house. I will defiantly go again. If not for ink just to pop in and say hi.

Never thought I’d say this about a tattoo parlor, but after our recent trip to this shop, I’m glad to have the Ridgewood Tattoo Studio in our neighborhood.
After Rusty booked an appointment, I recently watched Eric work on his octopus tattoo for several hours.
What he easily could have shrugged off as a casual retouch of an already started tattoo, Eric instead poured over 9 hours of extremely hard work into this awesome piece.
Honestly, I loved this piece prior to Rusty having it reworked and previously encouraged him not to have it touched up. However, Eric did such a fantastic job on all of the details (defining the tentacles, doing a lot of free-​hand work to extend and perfect the existing design), that it made me really happy that we waited all of these years to get the work completed.
Eric did not rush any aspect of the tattoo and although he wasn’t a chatty cathy, he just seemed like a really nice guy that had a lot of cool interests and background. In addition to obviously being a master tattoo artist, he’s also got great taste in music!
Rusty and I have visited a lot of tattoo parlors together, and honestly, few of them ever seem welcoming to me. I feel the opposite way about the Ridgewood Tattoo Studio. Eric is an exceptional artist that goes out of his way to do a job that you’ll love and that he’ll be proud of as well. I wish more tattoo shops and artists were like this (I’d probably have more tattoos)!