Rocksteady Tattoo

Had an awesome experience with Jared at Rocksteady! Walked-in to get my septum done and it was a very fast and comfortable experience. Will definitely be going back for my next piercing!

Jared is so good at what he does! I definitely think he should charge more. I was so impressed. I hadn’t had any piercings done in 15 years, so I was a little nervous to get four at one time, including one on my face. But I barely felt any of the piercings he did, and he was super friendly and made the whole experience really seamless and fun. If I’m ever in Fort Collins again, I’ll definitely be coming back.

I had the most incredible tattoo experience with Kenny. His art is gorgeous and his tattooing skills are beyond this world. He has such a light touch and knows how to get that ink in your skin just right. His lines are clean, his shading is on point, and the conversation is just out of this world. Meg is also a fabulous piercer and knows how to give you a great piercing. She has the best advice and is great to talk to. I can not recommend either of them enough!

got my septum pierced on my birthday as a walk in and it was an amazing experience for my first piercing!! i was nervous but jared definitely helped by talking and asking me questions. it was super fast and over before i knew it ☺️ definitely would go here for any other piercing too

Last minute before all places closed, I had to get this tattoo! Urgent for some sub conscience reason. He didn't write his name on the card. He was young and it was his first day in this shop. No problem. I made a template. To remember my Dad who used to race Jeeps. Was in 4 x 4 magazines. Very nice place. Very good job on tattoo and price was reasonable. No complaints. Found my new tattoo guy. Wish I remembered his name.

Wonderful environment. The staff are both welcoming and professional. I got pierced by Jared, and tattooed by Kenny. They were both super quick and friendly

Jared made my piercings easy through a comfortable environment and communication about the entire process. Will be returning 👍

After reading the reviews for this tattoo parlor, I think that my situation may have been a bad afternoon, but I've had roughly 20 hours of tattoo work done in the past 2 years and this was by far the worst experience I have ever had at a tattoo parlor.
A friend and I went in for tattoos, my design was more complicated than his with a few flowers, but overall it was a simple design. The artist my friend used was names Joe and he did a wonderful job. I had the other male artist and was not so luck. Considering the rating for Rocksteady, I assumed all of their artists would be equally skilled. I was wrong.
Full disclosure, I use a numbing solution called Hush, I swear by it for tattoo work. My artist seemed disdainful of my choice for how I get work done on my body, which should have been my first clue that this artist wasn't going to be a good match. 20 minutes into the tattoo I knew something wasn't right, I was in a lot more pain than with any other tattoo I've ever gotten, including one I had tattooed directly onto my spine.Initially, I thought it was my fault for not applying the numbing agent right, but I used a faster acting spray version and took a 20 ish minute break, which did help with the pain a lot until he started working again. However, it was not the numbing gel or my pain management. The artist was terrible.The tattoo was on both of my wrists, the way he stretched the skin on my wrists left bruises, and he managed to dig deep into my skin with his tattoo gun on all of the black lines, he missed sections multiple times, going over the same spots repeatedly. The healing process has not been pretty, and I will almost certainly have some additional unwanted scars from this tattoo once it's done healing.
Considering this, it's impressive that he missed entire sections of the tattoo when filling it in. Parts of the leaves and flowers don't have ink in them, and one flower's ink goes outside of the lines. Some of the weirdness in the pictures is simply the fact that the tattoos are a week old and still healing, but the scabs that formed on three areas of the tattoos that have made the skin pucker was not normal and will leave unasked for scars. The coloring mistakes are also a problem.
The cherry on top was a conversation my artist had with my friend when he was finishing my tattoo. They were playing pineapple express on the TV, and my friend made a comment that this was one of the few movies where it made sense for the actors not to shoot guns correctly, because they were high for the entire movie. The artist said, "That shouldn't be a problem. I'm high all the time." Yes, we're in Colorado, but tattooing anyone while high is pretty ridiculous, maybe he wasn't high. I'm not sure, but it would certainly explain the poor work. I will be getting the tattoos partially covered and hopefully corrected by a different artist sometime in may, but I strongly advise anyone who goes to this location to schedule carefully, or to find a different parlor altogether.

Recently got a nose piercing from Jared and couldn’t be more satisfied with the results! Will definitely be coming back.

I got my first piercing ever from Jared. He was professional and also friendly. I was recommended to try him from a friend and I’m very glad I did. 5 stars