Black Rose Tattoo

Excellent Today I had the privilege of watching a fellow artist create magic. Joey Sherman is not only an artist but a credit to his generation. His professionalism is a credit to himself and Black Rose Tattoo. Knowledgeable, sensitive to customer needs, and an all around gentlemen. Thank you for making Ray and my visit a great experience. See you soon! Can't wait to get my work done as well!

What I liked about my experience is how CLEAN they kept everything, the piece I asked for is exactly what I visioned. I liked how I had to give the artist a couple pictures and he understood what I wanted and gave me a lot of time to decide how I wanted to see my piece on my body. Overall, the tattoo turned out AMAZING the line work is on point and the pops of color really stick out. All while free handing, i’m SUPER happy with the art work.

I go here for all my tattoos. Shop is relatively small but nothing is wrong with that. My guy over there is Ivan, a master at his craft and doesn't dig as other shops probably do. I would recommend this place to everyone looking for their first tattoo or building on what they have!

Came here once a few years ago got a tattoo decent price but normal for what I got. Emailed the tattoo place from their website and the owner who’s email is also on the website but haven’t heard anything back. Apparently they make so much money they don’t need more business since they don’t care about responding to emails and making more business. Side note it’s small and crammed inside and the artists blast rap music while you’re getting a tattoo. Only reason I was thinking about going back is I got headphones to play on my phone so I won’t hear what I don’t want To

If your going to get work done at this place, please stay clear of the guy named Chris Hurdle. He seems like a descent person, but as a tattoo artist,his skills are not on the PROFESSIONAL LEVEL at all. I was fooled by his portfolio and decided to give the guy a chance and he completely BLEW IT for me. His line work was HORRIBLE!!! I MEAN REALLY BAD. It made me wonder if he actually did any of the tattoos in his portfolio. I had a beautiful tattoo theme with a lot of realism and shading involved in the design. I consulted with him, gave him images of what I wanted to have tattooed and a ample amount of time to come up with something awesome. When I saw what he came up with, I could tell he didn’t spend much time at all on the design as though he had just sketched up something the day prior to the appointment. Long story short, I got the tattoo and I liked it at first,but as it started to heal, I began to notice A LOT of mistakes he made. Luckily for me, I knew they could be corrected by a professional artist, so I didn’t get mad at the guy because he definitely did a lot of work that day, but I definitely will not recommend anyone go to him if they want PROFESSIONAL WORK. He claims he can do “REALISM” tattoos and that wasn’t the case at all. He was very misleading when it comes to the work I saw on the website compared to the sketch he showed me and the ink that I actually got done. The other artist there were doing really good work on their clients, so I was definitely confident in Chris Hurdle’s capability. Boy,WAS I WRONG. TALENT-WISE,HE’S A AMATEUR AT BEST AND ON THE BUSSINESS SIDE, I found him to be dishonest. He told me he could do the tattoo and he did,but he didn’t deliver professional work. I ended up paying another artist almost double the amount I paid Chris Hurdle just to fix all of his mistakes. Black rose has some nice professional artist there, but I found out the hard way that Chris Hurdle isn’t one of them. If you have a very simple tattoo in mind, he might be able to achieve it for you. If you have a serious tattoo idea with a lot of shading and REALISM involved, don’t bother with Chris Hurdle. He still working on reaching PROFESSIONAL level and he definitely hasn’t yet. Just being honest about my experience there. I will never go back .

I had a tattoo done at a place called color theory, where the artists are supposedly "Amazing"....long story short, the artist butchered my tattoo, so 2 months later i figured, "hey, lets go to this place called black rose, it's only a 10 minute drive from my house (most people travel far out of their way for their ink)". Chris Lawrence was able to turn a butchered tattoo from about a 5, to a 9 out of 10. obviously, you can only do so much with a piece that had already but botched beyond oblivion, but the way he was able to fix the errors made in my first tattoo was incredible! And he did it cheaper then the other place i went to. 100$ an hour, for a pretty good artist in your local area, you can't beat it. We're talking CROOKED trees originally, that he managed to straighten out the best it can be straightened.

Chris Lawrence saved my tattoo, and he was also enthusiastic about doing it. I rate this place a 10 out of 10 so far. i plan on going back for more. Great place, and my brothers and his friends say the other artists are good their as well.

I've gotten all my tattoos here and I would recommend Chris to anybody. He does great work!

Went to these guys after having a terrible experience at Roselle tattoo and it was a blessing because Chris Hurdle listened to me. I wasn't quite happy with the original design he came up with and he was willing to make the changes to the design. Beautiful tattoo, very clean shop and professional and very friendly artists. My wife and I will be customers for all our tattoos

Joey is absolutely amazing! His artwork and creativity is top notch! Line work, color and freehand drawings are truly the best! I can't wait to have more work done by Joey in the future!! Highly recommend for anyone that is looking for high quality work!

In town for work, called the shop spoke with Chris Lawrence and he was able to get me and my coworker in right away and was very nice and professional, would recommend him to anyone coming to the area!!