Tattoo shops in Red Deer

A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Red Deer, AB has 1 tattoo shops mapped right now. There's just the one mapped studio in Red Deer right now, so the portfolio check matters more than ever.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Red Deer (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Cin City. If a studio's missing from Red Deer's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Red Deer tattoo lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Red Deer

None of the 1 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.

Tattoo tips for Red Deer

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

• Match the artist to the style at Cin City. Fine line, blackwork, traditional, realism — artists specialise. The best studio in town is the wrong one if the style's off.
• Keep the bandage on as directed. Second-skin or cling wrap timelines vary by artist. Follow theirs, not a forum's.
• Check healed photos. Fresh tattoos always look good. Ask to see healed work — that's the real quality test.
• Plan around your calendar. Don't get tattooed right before a beach holiday or a marathon. Give it two quiet weeks.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Red Deer — 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 Red Deer can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 1 that's closed, or a great tattoo shop we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 1 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.