Top 10 Highest Rated Tattoo Shops in Portland
Portland, OR, is famous for being a hip and cool city, its streets lined with food trucks and its great baristas brewing up awesome coffee. Plus, it even has its own acclaimed TV show, Portlandia. However, The City of Roses, as it’s also called, has always been famous for inspiring artistic creativity, and there is no shortage of quality tattoo shops and artists. With all the shops in and around the area, finding the best can be overwhelming. So, to make it easier, we have brought you the highest ranked, rated, and reviewed shops in PDX. (Oh, and we couldn’t leave out Tigard, with two shops on the list!)
Portland, the biggest city in the state of Oregon, has close to 80 shops within the city and surrounding burbs, but the shops we highlight below have managed to consistently maintain a top rating from their clients. By no means, though, does this mean there aren’t a ton of other great shops. If you have have received a tattoo from one of these businesses, please make sure to leave your comments below, and if you’re a shop owner in Portland and are not listed or have not claimed your listing, please make sure to add your shop.
Skin City Tattoo and Body Piercing
Skin City Tattoo
Located at 11945 SW Pacific Hwy. in Tigard, Skin City Tattoo and Body Piercing has been around for over 10 years and take pride in maintaining a clean, friendly, and helpful environment. Joe Newsom opened the shop in 2000 and has a team of top-notch and experienced tattoo artists: Ken, Caitlynn, Marcelo, and piercer Vikki. Skin City works have been featured in numerous magazines, and they have won a ton of awards. Give them a visit to see why!
Skin City is open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm to 8pm.
Icon Tattoo
Icon Tattoo
Located at 813 N. Russell St., Icon’s artists provide a variety of styles including fine, custom tattoo work. Owner Melanie Nead and her amazing team of Alena, Lisa, Betty, and Gin provide a clean and welcoming environment. Icon Tattoo has been open since 1999. Check out their work, and you’ll see the reason why they’ve been around so long.
Hours are Wednesday & Thursday: 12pm—7pm, Friday & Saturday: 12pm—8pm, and Sunday: 12pm—6pm. Mondays & Tuesdays are by appointment only.
Lady Luck Tattoo
Lady Luck Tattoo
Lady Luck Tattoo Portland, located at 611 S.E. Morrison St., is a full-service tattoo studio with some of the finest, award winning artists around, with a combined experience of about 50 years! They work in all styles of tattooing: custom one-of-a-kind pieces, old school, new school, black and grey, and full color.
They are open 12pm to 10pm 7 days a week (except some holidays).
Aardvark Tattoo Company
Aardvark Tattoo Company
Located at 14804 SE Powell Blvd., Aardvark Tattoo Company is an all-custom tattoo shop. They specialize in portraits, photo-realism, new school, feminine tattoos, knotwork, lettering, and creating original artwork with amazing detail. Aardvark’s goal is to partner with clients to create unique art. Risa and Paul are co-owners and, along with artists Taylor, Lance, and Nate, they really bring to light that “a tattoo can be not just a beautiful image, but something that expresses what’s within while making its wearer more beautiful, too.” We couldn’t have said it better!
They are open from 12pm – 8pm 7 days a week.
Dead Gods Tattoo
Dead Gods Tattoo
Located at 11606 SW Pacific Hwy. in Tigard, Dead Gods Tattoo features the talents of artists and co-owners Joe Skramstad, Austin Allen, Dominick McIntosh as well as Will Bowler, Keoki Davis, and Nate Kraus. This team brings amazing talent and versatility to their art, which can be seen from their award-winning work and various published features.
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 12 – 8pm; Friday and Saturday, 12 – 9pm; and Sunday, 12 – 6pm
The Little Tattoo Shoppe
The Little Tattoo Shoppe
Located at 1323 NE Fremont, Matthew Mattison and Toby E Good provide a wide range of artistic styles and a friendly atmosphere for a personal tattoo experience. Matthew has been designing and applying tattoos for over 20 years and is best known for his portrait work.
Ritual Arts Tattoo and Body Piercing
Ritual Arts Tattoo
Located at 2005 NE 42nd Ave., Ritual Arts is Portland’s first Green Certified tattoo and piercing studio offering amazing work in a relaxing space. Ritual Arts offers custom tattooing and body piercing with a great selection of exclusively vegan, socially responsible body jewelry, materials and aftercare products. Those seeking a fun, sacred, unique opportunity to honor their bodies will find a home at Ritual Arts.
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 12 – 8pm, Sunday: 12 – 6pm
New Rose Tattoo
New Rose Tattoo
Located at 4823 SE Division St., New Rose Tattoo artists boasts a variety of styles, talents, and backgrounds. You can check out their portfolios or give them a call so they can help you find the best artist for you. You really need to check out the work of owners Mikal and Traci, as well as Leslie, Mark, and Carrie.
Hours are Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 7pm.
Historic Tattoo Society
Historic Tattoo Society
Come check out the work of Craig, Bradley, and Tyson at Historic Tattoo Society. This shop, opened in 2007, is a traditional American tattoo shop. Their clients love the unique vibe in the shop and agree that these guys care a lot about each tattoo that they do.
Historic is located at 2001 SE 50th and are open every day 11am – 7pm. Walk-ins are welcome!
Fortune Tattoo
Fortune Tattoo
Owned by artist Ms. Mikki, Fortune Tattoo is coming up on its 5th anniversary. You don’t have to take our word on the quality of this shop’s work; just take a look at the number of times (and publications) that they have been highlighted. Olivia and Stephanie round out the shop’s permanent team.
Fortune Tattoo is at 1716 E. Burnside. Appointments are preferred, and they are open Wednesday – Sunday 12 – 8pm.
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Awesome is an understatement for my experience and result with Ms. Mikki and Fortune Tattoo.
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It’s a scientific fact that New Rose Tattoo is amazing. The tattoos I’ve received from both Mikal and Traci are nothing short of perfection. It’s a fantastic shop with incredible people excelling at their passion of turning you into a work of art. That’s kind of shit that makes people want to save all their money and/or blow their entire tax return just so they can come in.
No better place to get a tattoo. Jesse is an amazing artist and the best human I’ve ever got to know. Very spiritual environmen,, welcoming, calm, relaxing. The only place I’ll get my tattoos.
My husband and I each got a tattoo at Skin City, Caitlynn did both and she was amazing. This was a few years ago and my husband’s tattoo has a lot of color, both still look great!
Aardvark Tattoo Company has spent quite a few hours on me. Paul, Risa, and Nate have done amazing work for me over the years. The entire studio is a staff of great people who are truly rad. I always feel confident and comfortable when I’m there. They take their time to personalize your tattoo and make it one of a kind and a piece you will be forever proud of to share with the world. Rock it Aardvark!!
Skin City is absolutely the best-been going there since he opened. I’ve taken my kids there for their “first” tattoo on their 18th birthday-wont go anywhere else…such a clean, happy and professional place for your artwork to be done. American flag is proudly flown to greet you at front door. Our family loves them!!!
I’ve been going to Ms. Mikki for 3 years now and I love every inch of ink she has done. My tattoos are very important to me so I spent months going through websites and portfolios. Her art is amazing, but it was her ability to talk to me about what the art meant and how it was important to me that really caught my attention. I’ve been told horror stories by my friends about infection and painful healing. Fortune tattoo is clean and well maintained. After spending roughly 50 hours sitting in that shop I can say without a doubt that customer safety and satisfaction are the biggest priority for the artist at fortune. Hope I see you there soon, it’s always nice to meet new friends and they have a comfortable environment. And when you go don’t forget to try the deep fried Oreos next door at fire on the mountain.