The Reviews

Reviews that mean something.

A five-star pile tells you nothing. Our reviews use six granular sub-scores, a heal-time tag, and a “would rebook” binary. Together they answer the only question that matters: would a real client come back?

01 / How This is Different

Three principles the industry quietly ignores.

01

Real reviewers only

Every reviewer has a verified account with a real order history. We block anonymous reviews, we block first-time accounts posting five reviews in an hour, and we manually review anything flagged. If yours is real, it stays.

02

Six scores, not five stars

A five-star average is a mush. Was the piece great but the shop dirty? Was the artist good but the price a surprise? Our six sub-scores separate those axes so a client can weight what matters to them.

03

Honest binaries

Some questions are yes-or-no. Would you rebook? Was the hygiene up to spec? The binary versions of these questions predict real client behavior far better than a mid-scale slider.

02 / The Six Sub-Scores

Six axes, one full picture.

Every review carries these six sub-scores plus the would-rebook binary. Together they build the overall number under an artist's name, but every axis is visible so a client can weight for their own priorities.

01

Hygiene

Sterile prep, single-use needles, autoclave testing, clean stations. The single most important score on this page — a hygiene failure gets a shop removed from the network.

02

Vibe

How the shop felt to sit in for three hours. Music, lighting, staff, conversation. Not the most objective metric but often the most-cited when clients rebook or don't.

03

Pain

How much it hurt, on a 1–5 scale. Aggregated to a body-diagram heatmap so clients can preview pain by placement + style before booking.

04

Line Integrity

Rated at the 1-year and 5-year re-uploads. The metric that separates a great artist from a scratcher — do the lines hold up when the ink settles?

05

Color Retention

Same principle as line integrity, for saturation. Only applies to color pieces. A high color retention score at 5 years is one of the hardest metrics to fake.

06

Price Transparency

Was the price clear before you sat down? Were there surprises? Community pricing data comes from here — the corridor of what real clients actually paid.

03 / The Star of the Show

The single most useful number is would rebook.

Every review ends with one binary question: would you go back? No middle ground, no “maybe.” The answer, aggregated across every review an artist has received, becomes their rebook percentage.

It's the metric that appears biggest on every artist's profile because it's the metric that actually predicts client behavior. A 95% rebook rate means 95 out of 100 real, verified clients said they'd sit for that artist again. Stars can lie. This can't.

Great artists post 90%+. Coasters live in the 70s. Anyone below 60% doesn't stay in the network long.

The last question on every review

Would you book with this artist again?

Yes No

One binary. Aggregated across every review. Displayed as a percentage under every artist's name.

04 / A Real Review, Rendered

What a review actually looks like.

Jules M.
Would rebook
1 Year Healed
4.8 Overall
Hygiene
5.0
Vibe
4.8
Pain
3.0
Line Integrity
5.0
Color Retention
4.6
Price Transparency
4.4

Sat with Keith at Bang Bang for a half-sleeve of red-accent B&G realism. One year in, the reds are still holding. Fine linework in the darker sections has softened maybe a hair but that's normal — everything else looks like it did the week after we finished. Chair was clean, autoclave paperwork was on the wall, prices were exactly what the consult quoted. This is a shop that respects the craft. Already booked my next one.

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