Fatty's Tattoos & Piercings Dupont Circle

I had an amazing experience with Fatty's piercer in Dupont Circle named Valerie. She was extremely professional as well as thorough. Valerie walked me through the entire piercing process from sanitizing instruments to the process of the actual piercing. She spent a good deal of time patiently answering all of my questions and making me feel very comfortable. Valerie also has an aesthetic eye to the positioning of piercings, and I greatly value the time she took to suggest angles and types of jewelry (never imposing, simply being helpful when answering my questions). Most of all, she is an incredibly talented piercer. She guided me through a breathing technique while she pierced me, and along with her talents as a piercer, the breathing made my experience virtually painless. I had an extremely positive experience at Fatty's overall, with helpful and friendly staff, along with an excellent piercer in Valerie.

20 yrs ago Fatty's pierced my tongue and last week got my Marilyn Monroe (top lip) and Mike was great!!

Recently, I came in a second time to get my septum pierced. I'd come in the first time a few months ago to switch out my stud nostril piercing with a hoop one. The first time, I thought Michael was professional and he put me at ease. This second time, I was very nervous, but again, he put me at ease. I felt vulnerable laying on the table as he put a needle through my nose - everything was going fine until he said, "I like that you ask so many questions - I ask a lot too - I'm probably very annoying to go on a date with." I shrugged this off thinking he was just making conversation. When he finished, I looked in the mirror and said I loved it. He said, "yeah, it looks great, I mean you're already so beautiful." Hearing this made my stomach drop. Being alone in a building/room with a man putting a needle in your nose laying down is already vulnerable and there's a great deal of trust that goes into it. I immediately wanted to get out of there. Then he said, "let me give you my number" and quickly added just incase I had any questions about the piercing. I took it just so I could get out of there. All in all, I'm disappointed because I thought that I found a piercer I could trust and rely on but in the end, it felt like he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hit on me and it make me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.

I got my septum pierced today by Kyle.

I called earlier to just make sure he could take me today and he was totally professional over the phone ensuring me I could come in today. I arrived at 7pm (an hour before they closed) and was out by 8pm.

He explained everything to me and made me feel super calm and ready for the piercing. I have had some bad experiences at other places so sometimes

I psych myself out but not this time.
He went over each step before he did it and made me feel totally comfortable.

All together for the piercing and the jewelry it wasn't a bad price, especially for the great costumer service I had.

Definitely will be heading back there!

I went into Fatty's on a Friday after work without an appointment to get my septum pierced. It was my first piercing (and I don't have any tattoos) so although they got good reviews, I wasn't sure what to except. The place has beautiful hard wood floors and is pristine!

Everyone I talked to was super professional and down to earth. Hannah Cherry, the piercer, was great! She made me feel comfortable and put me at ease. My piercing was quick and nearly painless and she remained professional, although, I sneezed through the entire process. She also instructed me on aftercare and cleaning.

That night at dinner the ball from my piercing came loose and dropped in the restaurant. After it coming loose a few more times, I called Sunday to ask that it be tightened, but by the time I got to the shop, the ball dropped again and I couldn't find it. But Hannah was really nice. She cleaned me up and gave me a new ring for free!

I'll definitely be back for jewelry and another piercing in the future.

I got my first tattoo today. My sister, brother, and sister in law all have many tattoos so I knew I had to do my research! Fatty's was my favorite, but I was only visiting my brother in Virginia so I didn't have time to make an appointment for the tattoo I had planned, but I still wanted to get one! I went in as a walk-in today at their Dupont Circle location and everyone was very welcoming, it was very clean, and they were all friendly. Sarah, who did my tattoo was easy to work with and talked to me the whole time! My brother and sister in law even scheduled an appointment with her for another time! Great place, great people, amazing work!

I just got my first ever piercing here and I'm very happy about it! The environment is clean. receptionist is friendly, pleasant and informative. And Hannah is amazing! Very supportive and professional. I was very nervous about the pain, but she did everything so smooth and quick, the first thing I cried was "Is that all?". Not painful at all, and the most relaxing was watching her changing gloves and that clean and wrapped sterile tools on the table. I guess I'm getting too detailed :D All in all, I would definitely recommend Hannah to everyone :)

Tried to call all three locations and nobody picked up. The online appointment system also took multiple hours to get a response. I was just looking for a simple jewelry change and purchase, which shouldn’t require a laborious online system and lack of communication.

I went here last night for an ear piercing with a friend and had a great experience. Everyone was helpful and friendly, and the place felt very clean. Michael did our piercings and was really funny and immediately put us at ease. Would definitely recommend!

The workers here are nice, but try to trick you into paying 3x the price of other places and claim that their jewelry is higher quality than other places ($50 an earring) when it's really a $10 pair of earrings. I'm very disappointed by the blatant lying of the employees. It took almost an hour to get my friends ears pierced even though there was only one person ahead of us. Once that person left, the piercer looked at us, left and took another 30 minutes before coming to get us. Why she took so much time, I do not know. The only positive thing is the piercer who was very kind and funny.