Art 4 Art's Sake Tattoo & Piercing

Dudes name is Richard! Great tattoo artist promise you won’t regret it. Takes his time & his prices are awesome! They also game me donuts 🍩 lol!
I’m from VISALIA came out here to work & happened to stop at his shop and ended up getting 4 tattoos from this guy! I love them 😍 He’s very kind and friendly. I got to bring my kids as well, his wife is very helpful & lovely 😊 I was satisfied
Highly recommend
Art for Art Sake Tattoo & Piercing Shop.
Located in Sacramento!

I got an amazing tattoo the other day. Great quality work at a great price! I'll definitely be back for my next tattoo.

Rich is the absolute best. Works quickly with the needle and leaves you with amazing body art. Cannot reccomend him enough. He was talking to me throughout the entire process and worked with me really well. Took what I wanted into consideration, but wasn't afraid to tell me it could be better.

Loved this place, received 2 breast piercings with my daughter. VERY UNEXPECTED 😂🤣 Overall awesome place, very professional.

Disappointed to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, Richards talented. When I came in and had a consultation it wasn’t even with Richard, it was with his friend who was very nice. We went over what I wanted and I had a pretty good idea of what it would look like. Signed the contract, gave him my $40 deposit and scheduled my session for March 21.
March 21 comes I drive to the shop and am told that an emergency came up with his son and his school and that he needed to reschedule. Irritated a little for not getting a txt or phone call before hand, even it was short notice. I have no choice but to say ok and he can see I’m a little irritated so he says he has the sketch if I wanted to see it. Of course I did and I was pleasantly surprised, it was awesome. Told me not to let anyone use his work and I agreed and we set it up for that next Tuesday March 26th. I was a little late and he seemed a little irritated, but he had resched with no notice or call so I wasn’t worried.
As you can see it’s only half done and as expected it hurt, but bad enough to where it was hard to be completely statue still, so we were gonna split it into 2 sessions. He told me aftercare instructions and told me to call him when it completely healed and we would set a date to finish. I waited a couple weeks and contacted him on April 5 no response, April 9 and he said he couldn’t get to it until the week of April 22 and that he would call. He didn’t so I sent him several msgs on April 24, 28, May 5 and May 10 which is when i was told he was overwhelmed and booked for the next three weeks.
Getting more angry I tell him I’d like to have it done by summer and that the first couple weeks in June would be ok and he said June is fine, no date, just June.
May 17 I contact him asking for a date and also May 25 and he says I’m scheduled in June. What? I have no date! I tell him that and still didn’t get a date that day! Contact him again June 8 and he just asks what day? I tell him I have a couple things; my daughters graduation, kids dr appts but I would work around his sched if I had to. He asks if I could do the 13th, my daughter had a dental appt that day, but I said yes. Asked move it to 4 and he replied with 2:30 and thats it. 2:30 it is!
Show up and he asks what we’re doing today, in my opinion didn’t really remember What? I said the other half and he goes on to tell me that we had discussed a fee of another $60 for not sitting still! We never discussed it nor did he mention it in any of the txts leading up to that date, or on the deposit form that had all the other fees listed....I would remember owing another $60 after already paying him $200, which is why I didn’t bring any cash. It gets to the point where I just say no I’m not paying more and end up leaving.
Next day he txts wanting to sched touch ups on what was already done, on him. I explain my feelings toward the situation on June 16 and get no response. Few more days I txt again and he says he doesn’t want to argue or get into a pissing match!
I just wanted my tattoo finished! I have talked to many people who have never heard of a sitting still fee, and if he had one, it should have been listed with the others. You can’t just create fees along the way....He made me feel like his time was the only time that mattered or was wasted! I made a few trips for nothing! I love what was done, but I’m not gonna be treated like I’m just another dollar for his wallet. He may be cool outside of running his business, but wasn’t very professional, esp with customer satisfaction.

Cool guy. Super nice and friendly. Good pricing. He gave very good detailed instructions for tattoo after care. Overall great experience and I would definitely come here again. ❤️❤️❤️

Love this shop. Richard is awesome

Got my first tattoo done here and was very happy with it! The artist was friendly and put me at ease. An all around good experience and will definitely go back for more !

Best place to go for tattoos! Richard is great, the music is fun, I love being there. Go there and talk to him about your tattoo needs and wants. He's tattoo Merlin!!

Made an appointment for 12:30 on Monday the 18th, and when I arrive 5 minutes early nobody is there. I waited for 40 minutes, and I have had almost no free time recently with work being hectic and all so I am really upset that I wasted time waiting when I could have been doing more important things.
They are supposed to be open at 12, but the lights are off, door locked, no signs of life... kind of agitated that I didnt even get a courtesy call. I can only assume there was some kind of personal emergency, but i still feel like I should have been called.
Super disappointed because both my friend and I were very excited about getting our piercings and we had hearf such good things about this place.