Forbidden Art Tattoos

ACE was the absolute best! I’m so in love with my new tattoo! Could not recommend more!

I got a helix piercing and it literally took less than 30 seconds. The longest part was the conversation with the piercer. I would definitely think before getting this type of piercing because of the whole mask thing. It hurts like hell when the loop gets caught on the back of the stud and it you wear glasses that's a double whammy 😭

Update: After having the piercing for 3 weeks that kept hurting Iike crazy, I went to a piercer back home. It turns out the back of the earring was on too tight causing a huge hole to be in my ear. My ear was extremely sensitive, and I couldn't even have it accidentally bumped-- let alone have my hair touch it without sending a shock through it. The new piercer took the earring out, and I almost screamed. He replaced it with a loop instead of a stud, and I felt instant relief. It bled some from pulling out the original earring, but the healing process started that same day. It's been 4 days now, and my ear has gotten much better. The hole has gone down significantly. If you go here I would definitely make sure that you have room to actually turn the earring before you leave and that there is actual space for the earring to move forward. The back of the earring is not supposed to be poking out far at all.

Very nice staff, clean shop and well priced. BUT I had a small tattoo done on my foot and not only was it not completely finished (I noticed later that some of the outline was just the temporary ink) but after it healed, all of the shading flaked off with my skin! I can only assume that it was not done deep enough and now all of the dark area of my tattoo looks terrible. I initially loved the design and now it looks nothing like the drawing she started with

Dusty was great! He not only did an impeccable job on the tattoo, but also told us about some cool hole-in-the-wall places to eat in which were awazing. The tattoo he made looked exactly the way we wished it would, and it even exceeded our expectations! All in all, I definitely recommend Dusty as a tattoo artist, he won't disappoint!

My other half and I went to New Orleans for Halloween. We decided to get tattoos while we were there. Apparently so did everyone else. Lol. We were looking for a studio that could take us on short notice. We went to several with no luck because most were closing early for the holiday. The universe pointed us to Forbidden Art. Bravo Universe! We called and they said come on over. Blair was our artist. She was amazing. She drew up our ideas and got us started right away. She was a pleasure to work with. I have never had a better experience anywhere. ( and I'm covered in art) She made sure we were happy with the art before she started. This girl got mad skills! I would highly recommend her to anyone going to New Orleans. I gotta say when my boyfriend picked out our tattoos I was skeptical of getting a zombie lady on me for life.....but with Blair's skill....she made it look amazing. It's now my favorite piece of art. Looking forward to going back to her for more on future trips. She is an amazing artist. Best kept secret in New Orleans. Her use of color and shading is outta this world. I'm extremely pleased with both our pieces. Thanks so much Blair!!

Raven Bones provided a really great first experience getting a tattoo for me. He is a very professional artist who is dedicated to being very transparent about his work ethic. Bones made sure I saw him opening new sterile packages of equipment pieces he would use for working on my ankle, providing advice on what health and safety signs to watch out for if I was to ever go to other tattoo parlors. I really appreciated that. He was very accommodating in adjusting any particular traits of the tattoo design that we wanted. His coworkers are really nice and fun to be around as well. I’m very happy with my tattoo, my very first one, and glad that Raven Bones was my tattoo artist. He’s a really cool guy, a lifelong New Orleans resident, who is very down-to-earth and kind. I hope to go back one day if I want another tattoo in the future.

Raven was awesome. We had a party of 6 come in for small simple tats Raven saw 4 of us, Dusty took the other two. Mostly line work. Both of them were funny and quick and skilled. We love the tats and they look great. Thank you guys.

This place is so ghetto and unprofessional. I brought my sister to get her nose pierced. She was seated but had to wait for the tattoo artist to finish someone’s tattoo. While we waited they bickered back and forth. After waiting 15 minutes or so, the tattoo artist and a young man walked to the side of the establishment and began FIGHTING. A grown man fighting a little boy. So embarrassing and was such a waste of time.

Ace was fantastic! They did a smiley for myself and pierced my friend’s septum. Fast, professional, and fun to talk to.

Thank you!!

I got a really nice piece done on my thigh and decided to take my niece back to get her first piercing from the same place and ended up wanting another tattoo to represent me becoming a mother. I was asked out by the tattoo artist to go hang at the casino and was like sure cool. We ended up going eat instead and he was going to go back to the shop and do my tattoo after. I wanted splashes of colors around my outline and ended up with nothing but scars and I’m so hurt.... I reached out to the guy and he didn’t even want to respond to my text or even give me a call back about his horrible job he did on my arm