Tattoo shops in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee has 3 tattoo shops on the map. All 3 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 Memphis (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Fresh Ink Tattoo Studio and Illmatic Tattoo, plus Trilogy Tattoos. If a studio's missing from Memphis's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Memphis tattoo lineup

3 in Memphis, plus 1 more around Memphis below:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Memphis

None of the 3 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.

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

The Memphis tattoo shop tour

The efficient Memphis tattoo shop tour strings these together: Fresh Ink Tattoo Studio on 10 North 2nd Street, Illmatic Tattoo on 10 South 2nd Street, and Trilogy Tattoos on 530 South Highland Street — 3 stops, one logical order.

Tattoo tips for Memphis

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

• Don't haggle on price at Fresh Ink Tattoo Studio. You're paying for hours of someone's skilled labour on your skin forever. Bargain hunting has no place in a tattoo shop.
• Small first tattoos are smart at Illmatic Tattoo. Your first session teaches you how your skin takes ink and how you handle the pain. Start modest.
• 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.
• Ask about the deposit. Custom pieces usually need a deposit that comes off the final price. Ask how it works before you sit down, not after.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Memphis — 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 Memphis can take a while to appear. The 3 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 3 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 Memphis

1 more within about 40 km of Memphis, nearest first: