Abyss Tattoo

Me and three friends went in to get small, simple cross tattoos together. Their minimum price was very high. We talked to the woman tattoo artist and she said eventually our cross tattoos would look like plus signs. We were told to look through her book and she said, «Do you want to look like a bathroom wall or an art gallery?» I found her to be incredibly rude.
We left and called Body Language which had a lower minimum and they were super friendly. Gave us exactly what we wanted and had a wonderful experience with Laura! I would highly recommend Body Language.

It’s funny to me that the complaints are that this tattoo shop won’t give a crappy tattoo. I applaud them for that.
I have had two tattoos here. One by Joseph and one by Stella. Both look great. It is clear that they are both artists. They took their time with placement and did good clean work. They clearly care about their reputation.
If you want a crappy tattoo I am sure some place in town will do it for you. If you want a good tattoo go to Abyss.

These «artists» are strictly that. They refuse to do anything unless it is customized by them. All I wanted was to start my video game tattoo collection and they refused. Saying it was «too flat and simple». I don’t care if it doesn’t look artistic to you. It’s not about you. It’s a tattoo of what I love. Not what you love.

DO NOT GET YOUR TATTOO AT ABYSS TATTOO!!! ESPECIALLY BY «JD!» SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE! In December of 2012, we all took a journey up to Eureka Springs for the weekend. My girlfriend and a couple others decided to get tattoos so we went hunting for a parlor. We didn’t actually like most of the parlors we came across, either they were limited in what they could do or they were just horribly rude which was out of the ordinary because the locals are usually amazingly friendly. Last but not least we come to Abyss. There were 3 people in there that all seemed friendly, skilled and confident. As the tattoos were done, we left satisfied. As some time passes by and it heals up, we notice some fading, some lines that were not quite connected and some spots that were not completely filled in. From a distance it looks fine, but close up it’s very visible. We went up there in May of 2013 (the next time we were in Eureka Springs) and asked to speak to the guy that did it «JD» is his name. He was outside on the balcony so we went and ever so nicely asked if he did touch ups. He was slouched in a chair wearing unnecessary sunglasses and looked like he hated the world. I then thought to myself… a little too much to drink last night when you have work the next morning mate? In a very rude tone, he asked to see it. He very quickly glanced at it, still wearing his dark sunglasses and said, «Well…what’s wrong with it?! I don’t see anything wrong.» Confused at his terrible reaction, we then began to point things out on the tattoo itself that we wanted to be touched up. Still rude as heck and still wearing sunglasses, not looking at us he began to bullcrap us by saying well it’s going to be too dark in this area, it will make it look worse than it already does, «noooo, it’s supposed to look like that, kind of faded into grey» *he continues to babble*…excuse me? Are you listening to yourself? I got the impression that he was trying to make my girlfriend look stupid, I very much so didn’t appreciate that. So then he began to kind of shew us away. Wow, never have I experienced such a terrible customer service experience. If he was lazy and didn’t want to do it, he should have just said he didn’t have time because he drank too much the night before and was hungover instead of making stuff up lying to us, and trying to make us look dumb. DO NOT GO TO ABYSS TO GET A TATTOO!!! AND AGAIN, ESPECIALLY NOT FROM JD! HEED MY WARNING!

I received a beautiful new tattoo from Stella this past weekend while visiting this fabulous little town! I contacted her over facebook after viewing her porfolio. She was quite prompt in responding to all of my questions and helpful with her suggestions to make sure that the piece turned out perfectly… which it did! This shop does custom work only so the walls weren’t covered in the usual preprinted generic tattoo ideas, instead they were covered with samples of each artists work in all different mediums. That was very refreshing! I would highly recommend this shop to anybody that is looking to get nice, quality work done while in Eureka Springs.