List of tattoo and piercing shops

Questions about tattoo and piercing shops are asked constantly in umass_amherst (the UMass Amherst Livejournal community). Here is a list of tattoo and piercing shops in Amherst, Hadley, Northampton and the surrounding areas. It includes poll results and reviews of shops from UMass community members.

Do not modify the opinions about shops without citations from community sources (in other words, not your promo site). If you wish to discuss shops, do so on the discussion page for this article or the shop article.

See also the following post on the umass_amherst Livejournal which contains a poll on Mom's, Lucky's and Loonar as well as personal reviews:

• Full post and discussion
• the poll numbers
• short comments (must be logged in to LJ)

Poll numbers in this article were taken from Livejournal on March 13, 2007.

[edit] Amherst

[edit] Mom's Tattoo Studio

Popular shop. Large majority positive reviews on Livejournal, particularly for tattoos by AJ. Piercing poll results are 87.5% "good." Tattoo results are 73.3% "good." Cites: [1], [2] (despite the employee posted stuff)

[edit] Poll numbers

• Tattoo
  • good - 11 (73.3%)
  • okay - 0 (0.0%)
  • bad - 4 (26.7%)
• Piercing
  • good - 21 (87.5%)
  • okay - 1 (4.2%)
  • bad - 2 (8.3%)

[edit] Hadley

[edit] Loonar Tattoo and Piercing

Generally "okay" reviews on Livejournal, with a few distinctly negative. Cites: [3], [4] (despite Mom's employee comments)

[edit] Poll numbers

• Tattoo
  • good - 3 (37.5%)
  • okay - 4 (50.0%)
  • bad - 1 (12.5%)
• Piercing
  • good - 8 (72.7%)
  • okay - 3 (27.3%)
  • bad - 0 (0.0%)

[edit] Northampton

[edit] Lucky's Tattoo and Piercing

Majority positive reviews on Livejournal, particularly for piercings by Penelope. Piercing poll ratings are 83.3% "good." Cites: [5], [6]

[edit] Poll numbers

• Tattoo
  • good - 8 (57.1%)
  • okay - 3 (21.4%)
  • bad - 3 (21.4%)
• Piercing
  • good - 20 (83.3%)
  • okay - 1 (4.2%)
  • bad - 3 (12.5%)

[edit] Easthampton

• Off The Map Tattoo, no reviews yet. Please provide one if possible.