Above All Tattoo

Eddie did an awesome job on my tattoo. I showed him what I wanted and he did it just as I wanted. I highly recommend Eddie from Above All Tattoo.

Skylar is awesome. I came in a few months ago to see about getting a cover up. (My tattoo was jacked) he has some suggestion and didn’t make me feel stupid for coming in. Some shops are weird when girls walk in. So long story short I came back and he said he could draw something up for me and what he drew was AMAMAZING! Just what I was wanting but still different. My tattoo is healed up now and I love it. I would for sure recommend skylar to anyone who wants a big piece or even a cover up.

I have gotten 2 piercings by Steve. My septum and philtrum. Each time he helped calm me down (i shake like a chihuaha when i get pierced) and was super friendly and professional. I know septum piercings when done properly arent supposed to hurt because you’re piercing a small gap of soft tissue and not cartilage. Happy to say i didnt feel a thing! Also when doing my philtrum i like how he was very precise marking the border/​center divide of my lip for symmetry. Both of my piercings healed super well and i know i can always count on Steve for a solid hole! Hes kinda hard to catch as he is a busy guy, but he’s definitely worth making an appointment for your next adornment!

Fast, friendly service. My daughter and I got matching tattoos and they turned out great!

Best shop in pb. Don’t recommend anywhere else for piercings. Great price and accuracy Steve’s the guy to go to. Entire place is clean and everyone is chill. Lots of cool stuff to look at too.

Andy Tassone is a beast when it comes to getting inked !! He can take your idea and develop it into a work of art! He did my first one made me feel at ease !! Would definitely recommend him and have to all of my peeps! Go check him out you won’t regret it!

Don’t recommend coming here. My nose was pierced 4 times by a lady who I thought was a piercer but turns out she was just an apprentice and when I talked to the real piercer over the phone he said he had no idea why she was piercing me. I go into the room and she marks my nose a few times and ends up saying «whatever» because the mark ends up being in the same spot as the beginning. Should’ve just left right then. The first time she pierced it she didn’t know how to put a screw nose ring in. Getting your nose pierced is pretty painful but having it done 4 times is way worse. She gave up on the screw nose ring and just put a straight one in. She gave me a small discount because she pierced me 4 times. She also never gave me any options on jewelry or any after care instructions or anything. The next day I go to a different piercer to have it looked at. My nose was so swollen that the bottom of the post wasn’t even all the way through. He could even see the 4 hole in my nose. This place needs to not allow people to pierce who aren’t suppose to be piercing in the first place. I did get a full refund and they did say they will pierce anything for me but I don’t think it’s worth it giving them another try. The actual piercer seems nice. I just have no idea how an apprentice ended up piercing me. The trauma/​pain I was put through was pure hell. If you do come here make sure the person is an actual piercer. I just got my nose repierced at 101 piercing which I highly recommend!

Andy Tassone is a world class artist, his detail is amazing. He recently finished my chest to half sleeve tat, and it’s a work of art ! Thanks Andy for this sick piece, we will see you soon in San Diego, with the family. So you can ink Autumn up a little bit more !!

I was with three girlfriends of mine who tried to negotiate three matching tattoos at this shop. The two employees that spoke to the group (both male) were rude, condescending, and felt they needed to «mansplain» how tattoos work (they last forever, did you know that!?) and how a business functions. Not professional, zero customer service. Typical hipster «cooler than thou» attitudes. Went to get the work done elsewhere.

Love this shop and the artists that fill it. Amazing work and amazingly hospitable! I have my work done by Kip and am never anything short of amazed! His work is always so strategically placed, colored and cared for. My color is vibrant as it was years ago thus my reasons for having him as my permanent artist. His ideas are creative and personally tailored to you, he always is open to suggestions and also refers me the best options. I couldn’t ask for a more honest and talented artist to be gracing me with his hand. I Highly suggest Kipper to anyone, along with this shop !!

I’ve been meaning to stop at this place for a while now, and I’m glad I did. I needed a feather tattoo for my father that recently passed. I was not disappointed. I was helped right away, given what I wanted. I wish I could remember who my artist was because he had the lightest touch. I didn’t shed a tear because of the pain, I shed a tear for my father. Thank you so much for the amazing memory.

Skylar gave me everything I could have imagined and more. I was fickle with everything except what I wanted (placement, size and font). He was so patient with me and made me laugh the entire time. My fiancé and I won’t be able to see each other for a year due to deployments and he really made sure the tattoo I was getting was special. The angry dude below is full of it. Skylar kept everything laid back and comfortable!
I absolutely recommend Above All and Skylar to anyone looking to get beautiful work done and enjoy the experience! Skylar, thank you for everything!

Having been tattooed by several artists over the years I found myself looking for «the last one» –who would share my vision for the current work I wanted and future work to be tangled in… which lead me to two portfolios at Above All Tattoo.
Upon entering the shop (on a busy Saturday night) everyone was focused on their work at hand. The front gal asked what I was looking for and then the charming Nikki Rex popped up to check out my rough sketches/pic’s. She was excited and saw the vision and made them come to life –1^st counseling me on flow, size, placement, and levelness (so to not clutter and lose all the individual pieces which had to come together).
Light handed, tight lined, solid smooth blending of thick and thin lining; the hours flew by damn near painlessly. Within a couple of sessions Nikki had the major portion of my sleeve on point and I have received nothing but the highest compliments on the work she’s put in. As it grows I watch it develop, more alive with expression and depth with each session. You want a deep stylistic piece, go to Above All to get your art on. The majority of my time in the shop has been with Nikki, Steve, and Chowder –always a good time, friendly and bringing the humor… with occasional magic tricks!
One item I’d like to throw out there: !!!BE PREPARED!!! –No one likes a wishy-​washy no thought generic «from the wall» tattoo… they are permanent –put some effort into it.

Skylar really saved us! We are on vacation and my boyfriend arranged for me to swim with a dolphin at sea world. The night before I was trying to get my barbells out of my ears and just couldn’t. We called a bunch of places and most were closed (it was 11pm). Skylar stayed open late just to remove one earing of mine. It made such a difference! Thank u so much for everything! We came back the next day and Steve put in all of my earings for me at no charge (I tipped him of course). I just can’t thank these guys enough for helping me in my time of need!

So I’ll start by saying I don’t take doing a Unilocal review lightly and rarely even attempt to do them. I realize how impactful they can be and always want to be fair.
a friend of mine got her tattoo done at Above All and recommended to give it a try so after a nice afternoon in Pacific beach my best friend and I went to get some tattoo work done. Our initial experience walking to the door it was a bit questionable. It was hard to determine whether Skyler was actually interested in doing anything for us or not. we understand that we should come in with ideas (which we did) but he wasn’t interested in offering any suggestions tips or information on what we may or may not want or like. In fairness to him he probably wasn’t in his right mind because he was hungry and hadn’t eaten… we heard about that multiple times. so as we sat debating as to get the tattoos there or not another gentleman came in by the name of Keegan. Must say I an absolutely different experience super polite very insightful and helpful. And no lack of confidence LOL. Anyways needless to say we went ahead and move forward and he offered a suggestion to do some Touch up or work on an existing tattoo rather than start a new project. What a great idea! So after a couple of hours I was happy and the price was fair. Keegan did a great job as expected. During the time I was getting my work done my friend was working on an idea to do some roses on her shoulder and Skyler came back in. My friend presented a picture and ideas on what she liked and he said that he could do something similar but not exact which was fine we just wanted a little guidance on placement and what not. During this time his attitude seemed a little better (he ate) but still a bit questionable. After about 45 minutes we were presented with a drawing and a cut out to place on her arm to see if we like it. It wasn’t exactly what she liked and the cut out was just a piece of paper with a sketch and photocopied and no way to adjust the actual flowers on her shoulder just by moving the whole paper could we actually get an idea. not one time did Skyler get up or offer a suggestion and placement location or any additional design in regards to the Rose and drawing. About five minutes later of uncertainty on how to do it on her shoulder he piped up with a comment and said something to the effect of «I don’t have all night for you to figure out how you want to place that on your shoulder». At that point nothing else needed to be said we just said okay thank you for your time will just take our business somewhere else. Putting a permanent tattoo on your body was something that we were not going to be pressured into if we were 100% certain. So we paid for my tattoo and moved on to another location as he backtracked a little and apologized. Bottom line Keegan but Skyler was very rude/​unfriendly Big. Probably should go back to LA where he came from. It is in my opinion if you’re going to invest more money and put something on your body that’s permanent that there should be a little more consideration from the individual that’s going to put it on you (in this case skyler) my recommendation go to Dutch Touch in El Cajon… that’s where we went she got her roses done in less than 2 ½ hours including drawing time and it cost a whole lot less. A great experience and super super friendly knowledgeable tattoo artist (JEREMY)

I’ve been meaning to write a review on here for a long time. I LOVE this place. I’ve gotten my last 2 tattoos here, and will definitely be back for more. A few months ago when 2 my friends and I decided to get spur of the moment tattoos, only having vague ideas of what we wanted. Dan was amazing and spent hours with us. He went above and beyond in what any of us had even pictured that we wanted. The time and detail he put into all 3 of them was amazing and we are all so happy with the results. Definitely planning to come back soon!

Dan is awesome!!! My two friends and I came in on Friday to get tattoos done! We all love how they came out and would definitely come back to see Dan again! Highly recommend :)

Amazing shop! The energy was great, the staff were really friendly, and Danny did an awesome job on my husband’s and my matching tattoos! We highly recommend this place!!!

I walked in last night with my best friend not knowing what to expect, although I know Steve from my days of working at Enigma, and figured there were solid artists working here.
I am half covered in tattoos, and am incredibly picky when it comes to who I let touch me with a needle at this point. Arty helped us from the moment we walked in and was courteous, funny, and incredibly reasonable. It helped that he was stoked on our Star Wars tattoo ideas.
My line work is perfect, and the placement of the tattoos is even better. (Photos to come when they are healed!)
Their prices are fantastic, the customer service is even better.
I do have to mention, the artist who did my friend’s tattoo had a nasty attitude and complained about how difficult her tattoos were the entire time he was doing them. He didn’t even bother to hide his annoyance that her work was keeping him from other customers. No worries, his work was clean, and if, well, WHEN my friend and I return we will most DEFINITELY see Arty again!
Thank you, Above All!

Above all tattoo is a great shop. I like that is clean and that everyone that works there is very friendly. I had Dan do my infinity tattoo. It’s very simple but I wanted to make sure that the lines were clean and it would come out a good quality, so I just didn’t want to go to anyone. I have seen dans work so I knew it would come out great. This was my 1^st tattoo and he made sure I comfortable and was very nice.
Thank you Dan for doing great work and making sure that this tattoo was done well!