Syndicate Tattoos & Piercings

Syndicate tattoo is one of my favorite places to go in des Moines! Jake & Kortney are amazing!

I have gotten tattooed at both the old location (in Altoona) and the new location (in Colfax) and I dont have a single negative thing to say about them. They all professional, personable, fantastic artists. They perfected placement, and design of every single piece they worked on. They were more than flexible with my availability and that makes getting anything done a total breeze! I would recommend them to anyone, for any type of ink wor. Black and grey or colored! Every artist there is top notch!!!

Kortney was the artist my very close friend would go to. He recently passed away. Because of this, I chose to get a tattoo in memory of him by her. I traveled over an hour to support this artist and am very disappointed in my visit to Syndicate Tattoo.I arrived at the tattoo shop at 350pm for a 4pm appointment with Kortney. A tattoo artist greeted me and I told him I had an appointment with Kortney. He said she would be out soon and directed me to a seat. I sat in the lobby for 30 mins when two people came in. The tattoo artist greets them, then says that Kortney has an Eyebrow piercing before my appointment. After sitting there for a total of 50 minutes and not being addressed by my tattoo artist, I decided to stand up and tell the previously mentioned artist that I was going to go now. He asked if I peeked back there, knowing that I didnt being in such close proximity of each other, and I replied, I didnt know I was supposed to, she can message me. And left the building.I am a professional body piercer of 4 years and working in this industry, am completely aware things happen. Clients change their mind on size, location, color and sometimes entire design. These are all understandable, as long as the artist is transparent and communicates with the next client. Unfortunately, there was no communication between Kortney and I. In fact, I didnt even see her, once. Lets say she had just finished with her current client, decontaminated, collected from them, and started setting up for my tattoo, printed out my design and made a stencil, it would have been atleast 1.5 hours past my scheduled appointment time. AND she would have had to stop at some point to pierce the client who was waiting to get their Eyebrow pierced. Which means she scheduled an appointment during the time i was scheduled for. I find this to be disrespectful and unprofessional. Communicate with your clients and respect their time.My appointment was June 27th at 4pm. I waited a few days to post this, in hopes I would get a message apologizing, but I have yet to hear anything at the time of posting this. Just adds to the disappointment.

Always a great environment and energy, leave with exactly what i want everytime and never a single problem. supportive people and amazing prices. love love love this place

The new shop is amazing. Love the people that work here.

Great atmosphere and great tattoos!