Tattoo shops in Fort St. John

Fort St. John, BC has 4 tattoo shops on the map. All 4 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 Fort St. John (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vampire Tattoo and Soulfire Tattoo, plus Phase One Tattoo. If a studio's missing from Fort St. John's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Fort St. John tattoo lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Fort St. John

None of the 4 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Most tattoo studios work by appointment anyway, so call or message before dropping in.

2 have websites listed. Studios with websites usually show portfolios there — the fastest way to tell if a shop's style matches yours.

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

The Fort St. John tattoo shop tour

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Vampire Tattoo, Soulfire Tattoo on 10104 100 Street, Phase One Tattoo on 10405 95 Avenue, and Gamblerz Tattoo on 9904 98A Avenue. That's 4 stops on the Fort St. John tattoo shop tour.

Tattoo tips for Fort St. John

First tattoo or fiftieth — the rules don't change in Fort St. John:

• Small first tattoos are smart at Vampire Tattoo. Your first session teaches you how your skin takes ink and how you handle the pain. Start modest.
• Plan around your calendar at Soulfire Tattoo. Don't get tattooed right before a beach holiday or a marathon. Give it two quiet weeks.
• Match the artist to the style. Fine line, blackwork, traditional, realism — artists specialise. The best studio in town is the wrong one if the style's off.
• Don't pick the scabs. Healing tattoos itch and flake. Picking pulls ink out with the scab and leaves patchy spots.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Fort St. John — 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 Fort St. John can take a while to appear. The 4 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 4 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.