Tattoo shops in Kamloops

A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Kamloops, BC has 5 tattoo shops mapped right now. All 5 are mapped as tattoo studios proper, and each one is worth a portfolio browse before you commit — style varies more between shops than towns.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Kamloops (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Life Ink Tattoo and True Spade Tattoo Society, plus Pirate Palace. If a studio's missing from Kamloops's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Kamloops tattoo lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Kamloops

2 of the 5 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.

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 Kamloops list a phone number. Use it — a quick call tells you more about a studio's vibe than any review.

The Kamloops tattoo shop tour

Making a day of it in Kamloops? Work this order: Life Ink Tattoo on 240 3rd Avenue, True Spade Tattoo Society on 3007 Westsyde Road, Pirate Palace on 445 Seymour Street, Blue Orchid Tattoo, and Mystic Moon Tattoos on 125 4th Avenue. That's the tattoo shop tour in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Tattoo tips for Kamloops

A few things worth knowing before you work through Kamloops's tattoo shops:

• Don't drink the night before at Life Ink Tattoo. Alcohol thins the blood and makes you bleed more, which pushes ink out. Arrive sober and hydrated.
• Aftercare is half the tattoo at True Spade Tattoo Society. Follow the artist's instructions, not your friend's. Keep it clean, keep it moisturised, keep it out of the sun.
• Small first tattoos are smart. Your first session teaches you how your skin takes ink and how you handle the pain. Start modest.
• Eat before your session. A real meal, not a granola bar. Long sessions on an empty stomach are how people faint.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Kamloops — 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 Kamloops can take a while to appear. The 5 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 5 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.