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Best Tattoo Parlors in Las Vegas (Checked 2026)

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This list was written in 2016 and has been checked shop by shop in September 2026. Las Vegas turns its businesses over faster than most cities and it shows: several of the original nineteen have closed, and two have moved.

One thing worth knowing before you book. Shops on the Strip charge Strip prices, and they are set up for walk-in tourists wanting something the same day. That is a perfectly good way to get a tattoo, and it is not the way to get the best work in the city. The shops a ten-minute drive off the Strip are generally cheaper, quieter, and where the local collectors go.

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On the Strip

Club Tattoo

Three studios on the Strip: The Venetian, Planet Hollywood and The LINQ. Open 10am to 11pm, later at weekends. Walk-ins accepted.

The most visible tattoo business in Las Vegas, and set up for it - long hours, casino locations, tattooing and piercing with a large jewellery selection. Convenient rather than cheap.

Revolt Tattoos

3200 S Las Vegas Blvd, Fashion Show Mall, Suite 2680; and 4300 Meadows Ln. Walk-ins and appointments.

Mall locations with mall hours, which makes them easy to get into. Custom work and cover-ups.

Off the Strip

Downtown Tattoo

1106 E Fremont St. Noon to 8pm Sunday to Thursday, to 10pm Friday and Saturday. Shop minimum $100.

Open since 2008 and one of the most respected shops in the city. American traditional, black and grey, Japanese and lettering. If you want work that holds up rather than a souvenir, start here.

Broken Dagger Tattoo Parlor

5255 S Decatur Blvd, Suite 108. Noon to 8pm, seven days. Walk-ins welcome.

Working since 2013, covering traditional and neo-traditional, black and grey, blackwork and dotwork, colour and Japanese. A genuine custom shop.

Ironhorse Tattoos

8130 W Warm Springs Rd, Suite 160-117. 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday. About ten minutes from the Strip.

Family-run since 1999, health department certified, single-use needles. Realism, black and grey, cover-ups and lettering.

Reverie Tattoo & Piercing

3441 W Sahara Ave, Suite B1. 10am to 6pm most days, to 8pm at weekends.

Traditional through to black and grey, owned by an award-winning artist. Tattooing and piercing.

Americana Tattoo Co.

4012 S Rainbow Blvd, Unit G. Noon to 8pm Sunday to Thursday, to 10pm Friday and Saturday. Walk-ins welcome.

Black and grey, lettering, realism and American traditional, plus piercing.

Vegas Val's Tattoos

S Rainbow Blvd. Open Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

A one-artist shop rather than a parlour: fifteen years in, specialising in cover-ups and custom work. Worth knowing about if you are carrying something you want hidden.

Henderson

Skin Factory Tattoo & Body Piercing

2461 W Horizon Ridge Pkwy, Suite 110, Henderson. 10am to 8pm Monday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm Sunday.

Note the address. Skin Factory was founded in Las Vegas in 1995; the East Sunset Road shop has closed and the business now operates from Henderson.

Closed since this list was written

Named so that anyone finding the old version elsewhere does not make the trip.

  • Blue Note Tattoo, E Sunset Rd - closed.
  • West Coast Tattoo Parlor - both the S Las Vegas Blvd and S Rainbow Blvd shops have closed. The business has said it is reopening at a new location; check before assuming either old address.
  • Sin City Ink, E Tropicana Ave - closed. A separate business trading as Sin City Tattoo operates in the city; they are not the same listing.
  • Skin Factory, E Sunset Rd - closed, but see Henderson above.

Several other entries from the 2016 list - Voodoo Tattoo, Last Chance, Illuminati, Mrs. Rocket, Trip Ink, Quick Draw and Fox and Hound - could not be confirmed as still trading in September 2026. Rather than send you to an address that may be empty, they have been left out. That is not a statement that they have closed, only that their status could not be established.

Before you book

Nevada regulates tattooing at county level. In Las Vegas that is the Southern Nevada Health District, which licenses both the establishment and the individual artist, and publishes the register. Ask to see it if you want to.

Then the ordinary checks: sterile needles opened in front of you, fresh gloves, single-use ink caps, an autoclave, surfaces covered and wiped between clients.

On the Strip specifically, ask the price before you sit down and get it confirmed in writing or by text. Same-day tourist tattooing is where the most complaints come from in this city, almost always about cost rather than quality.

Details change. Phone before travelling.