Piercing Pagoda

Alright. Okay. I’m not mad. No, really, I’m not.
Have you ever seen Hercules? That scene where Hades tries to remain cool, tells himself he is, then blows up, just to repeat the process?
Yesterday I went in to get a double cartilage piercing for my birthday (yes, it was my birthday when this all transpired; keep that in mind) as I have been here before and got a nice cartilage piercing.
Long story short — as I don’t wish to start thinking about it again — I have to wait 48 hours to go get them redone and I cried on my birthday. Three out of four are noticeably crooked and angled wrong. She was really nice so I won’t oust her name so directly, but she’s been mentioned in another review. We called and they’re obviously going to fix it for free, but I even have doubts if it’ll be remedied this time, since it’s such an amateur mistake in the first place. I do not think if one can mess up so severely so simply that they should be doing ears.
She was so, so kind and cool, but it is what it is. And what is it is absolutely unacceptable for a piercing company to so frivolously hire employees and for this simple mistake — especially so severe of one — to be made. It’s ridiculous; I’m sorry. Piercing isn’t *that* hard. Comparably, it would quite literally have been better to get my aunt to do it with her needle and ice.
I understand the five star reviews; I do. It went really well the first time. But this time was such a disaster and causing so much trouble, stress, and anxiety, and it proves it’s all based on who you get — which can be anyone they hire who isn’t up to or always up to par — and that is too variable for things so time consuming and potentially painful as piercings. Because of this, I cannot even muster a two star for good selection.
Go somewhere better unless you are feeling lucky.
When these are (hopefully) fixed, I’ll not come back and each time I do walk by, it’ll be a bad memory — about my birthday no less. The one star «Eek!» has never been so appropriate.

I got my cartilage pierced a couple of weekends ago by Ashley (blonde, super easy going and so pretty), I think. She is literally the sweetest girl ever!!! It didn’t hurt at all and everything was so quick. I was explained everything on how to clean it etc. There was also another guy there and he was very sweet as well. They have such a wide variety of every piercing you could possibly think about (minus things like nipple piercings, but hot topic is literally two steps away, lol). I was beyond happy with my while experience there! Whenever I’m brave enough to go get another cartilage piercing, I’m definitely going to piercing pagoda!!! :-)

My friends and I had a five star experience here. My 27 year old friend was pretty nervous to get her ears pierced for the first time, but I managed to talk her into it. These sales ladies were very calming and reassuring with my friend and made her feel right at home. Keep up the great customer service here!
Love my new set of earrings too!