How to run a tattoo salon in The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies

Back in the mid-2000s, The swimmers The series introduced tattoo stations via its wild, posted cousin, URBZ for the first time. Since then, tattooed sims have made a recurring appearance and pops up in both Sims 3: ambitions and Sims 4 Basic game.

Although tattoos were available in The Sims 4 since the beginning, they could only be added via Create-A-SIM, the menu in the game. That is, the release of Businesses & Hobbies expansion, which has gone as far as adding a tattoo capacity, tattoo salons and all the equipment you need to run your own studio.

Updated September 19, 2025 by Helen Ashcroft: We have updated this guide to make some things clearer, as well as adding some additional ways to generate revenue in your tattoo salon.

How to start a tattoo studio

In order for your business to succeed, you must have a place and register your small business. Your place can either be in your home or much you have purchased specifically for this purpose.

Some partyper cannot be registered as small businesses. The easiest way to ensure that you can register is to either use your residential area (which will be a hybrid housing and small business party) or buy a separate small business.

How to record your tattoo studio

You can either Register your new company automatically when you buy a property to be worth it, or so can you Register it with a phone or computer. When you sign up you will need Choose some business activitiesalso.

If you decide to buy a new party for your tattoo salon, when you buy your new property you can Switch a box During where you decide whether the party should be decorated or not. This is coming automatically make a generic business which you can then customize.

Once you have purchased your property and went back to live mode, yOU can customize your tattoo studio By navigating to Owned tab Company. You can find this close to your SIM's needs and personality information.

Sims that plan on runs a home companyor if you forget to tick the box while buying the new party, must Manually register their business for 750 Simoleons. You can do this by selecting a phone or computer and Using the register with small business interaction.

Register a small business will Pick up a menu that lets you name and customize your business. You can Choose exact business activities that will be implemented, along with a new Logo and your target customers.

How to customize your business to make a tattoo studio

You want to adapt Your company to include Some activities and customers To make sure it goes well as a tattoo salon. Two specific business activities will be useful:

• Become tattooed
• Exercise status

Become tattooed means that Sims comes along to get a new ink, while Exercise status means that tattoo artists essentially come rent space in your store to tattoo sims from. You can choose either or both, but it is best to Make sure you add tattooed.

You can Set up to five business operationsSo you may want to choose some others to help your studio drive as smoothly as possible. Some ideas include:

If you add a counter or bar, you can rent a sim to make tea and coffee and charge for it. If you only add machines to a counter, sims will serve themselves.

Another aspect of business adaptation that may be useful for shaping your tattoo salon is Goal customers work. This lets you Decide who your main customers should beeither by setting a preference for certain types of swimmers or making Mandatory rules.

The Age parameter is especially useful when making a tattoo studio that you can Make the party a child -free zone. Given that Teens, young adults, adults and elders can get tattoosThere is no real need for some tots to appear on their own.

Important items are needed

There are a couple of different ways you can approach your tattoo salon, but there is nothing to avoid you need Buy a tattoo table. The Deluxe Tattoo Table by Intastic Come with companies and hobbies and costs 920 Simoleons.

You can find it in Creativity section of activities and skills In buying mode, or you can search for it specifically.

You do not need to buy tattoo guns, needles or ink to get your SIM setting. Maybe the tables are some kind of all-in-one deal. However, you can find some cute new tattoo strings in the decoration section.

A tattoo table is all you need to tattoo others, but you will have it Happy customers If you at least provide a place for them to sit down and a bathroom They can use. Music or artwork can also keep them happier as they wait.

If you want Charging sims for entry or for each hour They spend in your tattoo store, then you have to buy one of the two New ticket kiosks. You should also make sure you are right facilities for swimming to take care of their needsLike bathroom and kitchenette if you do this. Especially if you charge per hour, you want them to stay as long as possible.

Another article you may want to consider buying is Digitalist sketch plate for 750 Simoleons. You can also find it in the creativity section or under DIC electronics. This allows Your sim to design tattoos. These patterns can be used on sims or added in cloths and placed on the wall.

Digitalist Sketchpad is a base player article, but if you have Artist Studio's Kit you also have the opportunity to choose the CreativePro Surf plate for 800 Simoleons instead. Only these two options work.

About your tattoo Skill level is above level 5, You can run Classes and lectures that swim in the building can pay to participate in Sharing is caring whiteboard. You can find this in Activities and skills for $ 630. On a regular party, Whiteboard lets you Keep free lectures for hobby meetings. They become Fee -charged classes at a small company.

You can also use Coffee bar in barley ($ 940) to load swimming for tea and coffee. However, you must hire a sim to run it, like offering classes. A sim can only do so much, so some of these ideas are Better used for later expansion.

How to make money tattoo

You have a couple of different ways to approach your new small business. You can either wait for your customers to pay for a service – In this case, tattoo – or so you can Charge your customers to spend time In your studio.

If you want your swimmers to Salary per tattooAll you need is the tattoo table, and you will get a fixed fee For each tattoo that is complete, depending on the artist's skill. The Higher artist's tattooing ability, the more they earn for each tattoo.

How to use ticket kiosks

To use the ticket kiosk method instead you have to buy either Brilliac Ingvar -ticket or Elektrono ticket kiosk from buying mode. With one of them placed in your business you can go back to the customize business menu and Add registration prices.

Ticket kiosks can be used at Add an admission fee or charge swims per hour to hang out at your business. When you customize your business, watch out for the option to Set up entrance fees. Rather than setting a certain amount of simoleons, you will Choose between a scale of -50% up to 100% for both one-time and hourly fees.

The Lowest you can charge per hour are two Simoleons, While the highest is ten Simoleons/Hour. Registration fees, on the other hand, start at 11 Simoleons and drive up to 46 Simoleons on the upper end of the spectrum. Sims can Still spend money to use any items Once they have bought a ticket, but It costs them less.

How to hire tattoo artists

Unless your sim plans to be the only artist in its studio, do you want to consider Hire some extra employees to help. Or, if you prefer you can Rent SIMS to help with other parts of the business, Like keeping it clean.

Open the owned business menu again and go to Manage employees menu. Choose it. You see three seats, which you can click to see a list of potential employees. Some of their best skills will be listed here, during your SIM's relationship with them.

It is important to note that it will Prefer swims you feel, So the best way to get the skills you need is to Create Sims with desired skills And be friends with them so they show up here. You See only SIM's three highest levels. Here, which will often be useless information.

Choose the Sims to hire them. When you open the business next, they will make their shift. To decide what to do at work, go back to the owned business panel and Select Manage Employees' details.

A new menu opens where you Determine what information your employees should take on Around the store. Make sure you Pick the tendency's tattoo table For all employees, you want to make your tattoo artists. Make sure you have enough tattoo tables For this as You need one per artist. You may also want to choose some other information, as clean.

Another way of hiring tattoo artists is at Choosing all tattoo tables You have around your business and Using InHire Tattoo Artist Interaction. This costs 50 Simoleons, and you will Earn money every time a customer gets tattooed the.

Using this method works a little more like hiring a freelancer, because they are not consistent employees you have on your root. You too Will not choose which artist You are hiring here. But that Make sure you get someone with the right set of skills.