Blue Wave Tattoo Kauai

I would highly recommend taking your business elsewhere.
Told me one price on the phone and said he can get going in an hour from that time so I spent the money to get a taxi to the shop. I show up about 45 minutes after calling and reestablish pricing which he suddenly raised $100 from the price given over the phone. He got aggressive with his words and demeanor when we asked for him to make the outline sketch a bit smaller. He took about an hour dealing with his own personal ordeals before starting with us but It seems as though he had been counting that time towards the session time I was paying for.
I Was charged 100+ for a half inch tattoo that took 4 minutes to complete. I had to pay another $50 once back home to get the tattoo fixed since the lines were uneven and in one area failed to impact any ink leaving the lettering disconnected.
He had several other idle friends around just watching. Owner also expected a tip when I Didn’t have small enough bills to break even for his extremely over priced work, which I understand a tip is common practice to give in this work, but should be based on the work given and not just expected especially as owner of the shop.

Overall the experience was awkward and unprofessional and I would suggest making the 20 minute drive to the next nearest shop.

Both Brian and John are amazingly creative, artistic, funny, talented and accommodating! They both do awesome work and I was so impressed. Highly recommend. Great feel & vibe in the shop. Very professional with reasonable prices.

Jon, I wish I could give you zero stars to reflect the zero effort you put into our appointment. My sister and I booked a six o’clock appointment on my last day on the island. At about 2:30 that same day, Jon asked if we could do 7 instead. Okay, no big deal. Then at about 6:40 he asked if we could change it to 7:30 or 8:00. We were already on our way as it was a 45 minute drive. We got there at 7 as planned and he showed up about 15 minutes later, complaining about how he had to leave Star Wars early. We were pretty shocked by this, as he made the appointment and even rescheduled us. Once in the shop, he starts playing the Star Wars theme music and making passive aggressive comments about having to leave 20 minutes before his movie ended to meet us, which was very uncomfortable. He quoted us $100 on the phone for small, simple line work (I wanted coordinates in small text and my sister wanted a simple outline). When we got there, he said it would be about $160 each instead. I asked him to make my text a little smaller and he gets pissed, then goes to draw up his ‘art’ my sisters outline was mismatched and sloppy, and my numbers were different sizes and very different from the text I wanted. At this point it became very obvious that Jon was not sober and was unable to draw a straight line. He asks me to come back in the chair and I’m staring at this awful rough draft when I realize he has no intentions of cleaning up the sloppy lines or even tracing it on my skin before he begins. This would have been my fourth tattoo and my sisters fifth, so we know how this process should work. I asked him to clean up the lines and he got pissed and went off about how he left his movie early for us, mondays are appointment only and that he regretted making our appointment, because clearly he’d rather be getting (drunk?stoned?) and watching Star Wars. He says he’s ‘doing his best’ then he says this sloppy drawing ‘will look better once it’s on my skin.’ I RAN from his chair. This was more than disappointing, as it was my last day in Hawaii and this was my souvenir from the islands. If you can’t draw a straight line on paper and show up to work sober, don’t waste my time and make an appointment.
TL;DR Jon showed up late and intoxicated after trying to reschedule twice, said he regretted making our appointment and was very aggressive with us. DO NOT HAVE WORK DONE HERE. The attached photos are what I wanted vs. his ‘art’ and his second attempt to reschedule via unprofessional texts. UGH Jon, you’re the worst.

Great experience and very talented artists. Jon Beechly designed my tattoo exactly how I wanted it...and he got me scheduled during my vacation. Highly recommend this tattoo shop when visiting Kauai.

Absoultly amazing i will definitely go back. Jon was awesome it was a great environment comfortable! Beautiful work thank you jon! If your looking to get a tattoo this is the place to go.

Awesome! Great experience at blue wave tattoo. Clean, polite, friendly and great atmosphere. I will be back for more! Professional work and quality body art!!!! Honored to get my 1st tattoo by Jon!!

My experience at BLUEWAVETATTOO was AMAZING it was layed back chill , and JON made it real comfortable for me getting my new tattoo his shop is probably one of a kind , he's patient and will listen to all your ideas im definelty coming back to his place. He did mine and my other halfs tattoos and I got my first tattoo from him ! Go check him out and show some ALOHA 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

I wonder how many people wander in here to see if they can get fit in for a little tattoo as a souvenir? At least one. Because I did. If it worked out, great! If not, oh well. It worked out! Brian said he could fit me in! Yay! Dudes that work there (owner?) Are really funny. And I absolutely love the ink. Oh. And baby Yoyo made an appearance.

Best tattoo I have ever gotten! Shop was clean. Music was awesome and drew me up an awesome tattoo! Super cool guys and awesome family. Highly recommended and will go back every time we visit Kaui

Jon is hands down a master of his craft, he was able to fit me into his schedule on a summer's Saturday and not only does he run a super clean shop but also is a extremely personable person. (My piece was a black and grey realistic 1930 Ford Model A, he knocked it out the park) DONT PASS UP THIS ARTIST