Tattoo & Piercing in Singapore

Singapore tattoo and piercing: reading the numbers before you pick a studio

Ratings in this category run unusually high in Singapore. Of the venues listed on Glow360, 127 carry ratings, the average is 4.8, and 116 score 4.5 or above. The listings cover 142 tattoo and piercing venues across the island, so the star number alone will rarely separate one studio from another. Review volume does that work.

The volumes at the top are substantial. Tattoo Singapore - Shadow Tattoo, on Geylang Road in Jalan Besar, has gathered 1,792 reviews at a 5.0 rating. 8 Volts Tattoo inside Orchard Plaza on Orchard Road holds 1,121 at the same score, and Yugto Tattoo Studio at 60 Arab Street has 845. Further east, Black Dot Tattoos Studio works out of Oxley Bizhub on Ubi Avenue 1, listed under Marine Parade, with 723 reviews. Numbers like these come from years of steady work, and they give you a longer paper trail to read than a portfolio alone.

A practical way to use the listings is to start from the work you want. Tattooing covers custom pieces from fine line to large-scale compositions, while the Body Piercing listings are the place to compare studios on jewellery and placement. Studio pages show addresses, review histories and photos, so you can tell a street-level shopfront from a studio upstairs in a mall or business park before you travel.

One note on geography. Most of the heavily reviewed studios cluster around the Jalan Besar and Arab Street area, with others in Orchard and out at Ubi, so central Singapore is where a shortlist usually lands. For anything the listings do not answer, help@glow360.com is the contact.