Tattoo shops in Baghdad

Baghdad, Baghdad has 6 tattoo shops on the map. All 6 are mapped as tattoo studios proper, and each one is worth a portfolio browse before you commit — style varies more between shops than towns. Walk-ins are worth asking about, but the good custom work everywhere books weeks out.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Baghdad (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include سيف مهند الوشام and مركز صالون روسم تاتو فرع الكراده, plus صالون نونة بيوتي. If a studio's missing from Baghdad's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Baghdad tattoo lineup

6 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Baghdad

3 of the 6 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — tattoo studios often work by appointment, so posted hours can be more of a guideline than a promise.

Most of the tattoo shops in Baghdad list a phone number. Use it — a quick call tells you more about a studio's vibe than any review.

The Baghdad tattoo shop tour

Making a day of it in Baghdad? Work this order: سيف مهند الوشام on الدوره حي الصحة, مركز صالون روسم تاتو فرع الكراده on كرادة داخل, صالون نونة بيوتي on نفق الداخلية, محمد روسم وشم تاتو on شارع كرادة داخل, حيدر الوشام, and مركز زهره اللوتس. That's the tattoo shop tour in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Tattoo tips for Baghdad

First tattoo or fiftieth — the rules don't change in Baghdad:

• Aftercare is half the tattoo at سيف مهند الوشام. Follow the artist's instructions, not your friend's. Keep it clean, keep it moisturised, keep it out of the sun.
• No swimming while it heals at مركز صالون روسم تاتو فرع الكراده. Pools, lakes, hot tubs — all off limits for two to three weeks. Fresh tattoos and bacteria don't mix.
• Bring reference images. Artists work better from references than from descriptions. Collect images of the style, not just the subject.
• Small first tattoos are smart. Your first session teaches you how your skin takes ink and how you handle the pain. Start modest.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Baghdad — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new tattoo shop in Baghdad can take a while to appear. The 6 above are only as current as the community map. A tattoo shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't rate studios or artists, and we never list prices — those are between you and the shop. What we list is the where and the how-to-find, from places real mappers have verified.

If you run one of the 6 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.