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Tattoo and piercing on Glow360: how to compare studios

Tattoo and piercing share one category on Glow360, and the pairing is deliberate. Many studios employ both tattoo artists and piercers, and the questions worth asking before an appointment overlap: how the studio handles hygiene, what the portfolio shows, and what previous clients say. The category currently spans 253 venues across the platform's cities, and appointments can be booked online directly from a studio's page.

The ratings deserve a moment of interpretation. 184 listed venues carry ratings, the average is 4.8, and 165 sit at 4.5 or above. Scores that uniform mean a 4.8 will tell you little on its own. Review count is the better sorting tool: a 5.0 built over hundreds of reviews reflects years of consistent work, while the same score on a handful of reviews is simply too new to judge. Reading a studio's most recent reviews, rather than its oldest, tells you what the place is like now.

Portfolios matter differently for the two halves of the category. For tattooing, look for healed work in the style you want, since fresh ink photographs better than it ages. For piercing, the portfolio matters less than the studio's approach to jewellery quality and placement, which good studios explain up front. Adjacent services sit in their own listings, among them Tattoo Removal for reworking old decisions and Permanent Makeup on the cosmetic side.

For studio owners, the platform side is straightforward. A free booking system handles scheduling and client records, and listed businesses join a network of over 50,000 on Glow360. Questions from either side of the chair can go to help@glow360.com.