Tattoo shops in Ladysmith

Ladysmith, BC has 5 tattoo shops on the map. 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. 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 Ladysmith (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Bully Boy and Second Street Tattoo, plus Modern Tradition Tattoo. If a studio's missing from Ladysmith's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Ladysmith tattoo lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Ladysmith

None of the 5 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.

The Ladysmith tattoo shop tour

The efficient Ladysmith tattoo shop tour strings these together: Bully Boy on 179 Station Street, Second Street Tattoo, Modern Tradition Tattoo, Coastline Laser Tattoo Removal on 81 Trunk Road, and Siren’s Ink & Tattoo Co. — 5 stops, one logical order.

Tattoo tips for Ladysmith

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

• Think about placement long-term at Bully Boy. Hands, neck and face limit job options in some fields. Your artist will be honest about this if you ask.
• Avoid the cheapest shop in town at Second Street Tattoo. There's a reason it's the cheapest. With tattoos you get exactly what you pay for, permanently.
• Document the healing. Photos of the healing process help your artist advise you, and help you judge their work honestly.
• Don't haggle on price. You're paying for hours of someone's skilled labour on your skin forever. Bargain hunting has no place in a tattoo shop.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Ladysmith — 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 Ladysmith 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.