Tattoo shops in Lausanne

Lausanne, Vaud has 8 tattoo shops on the map. All 8 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 Lausanne (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Les Muses and Ethno Tattoo Piercing, plus La 9ème Porte. If a studio's missing from Lausanne's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Lausanne tattoo lineup

8 in Lausanne, plus 9 more around Lausanne below:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Lausanne

3 of the 8 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.

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

The Lausanne tattoo shop tour

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Les Muses, Ethno Tattoo Piercing on 31 Rue Centrale, La 9ème Porte, Inkspot, Black Castle Tattoo on 40 Avenue de France, Poca Tatoo on 60 Avenue de Tivoli, Aito Tatoo on 6 Rue de la Gare, and Blvck Art Tattoo. That's 8 stops on the Lausanne tattoo shop tour.

Tattoo tips for Lausanne

Picking a studio in Lausanne? A little homework pays off:

• Moisturise, don't drown it at Les Muses. Thin layers of the recommended ointment. Too much suffocates the skin and slows healing.
• Don't drink the night before at Ethno Tattoo Piercing. Alcohol thins the blood and makes you bleed more, which pushes ink out. Arrive sober and hydrated.
• Check the sterilisation setup. Single-use needles, sealed ink caps, gloves changed constantly. A good studio is happy to show you; a bad one gets defensive.
• Aftercare is half the tattoo. Follow the artist's instructions, not your friend's. Keep it clean, keep it moisturised, keep it out of the sun.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Lausanne — 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 Lausanne can take a while to appear. The 8 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 8 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.

Worth the trip: more tattoo shops around Lausanne

9 more within about 25 km of Lausanne, nearest first: