How To Maximise The Tattooing Skill In The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies

Goth Sims rejoice because The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies now allows you to learn the tattooing skill. This is separate from other creative skills and lets you design and draw tattoos on your own Sims or those in the world. You’ll even be able to see your finished artwork visible on anyone who gets tattooed by your hand.

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You can use new features in Create-A-Sim to design custom ink, or use the new range of designs to add tattoos to others. You can even charge for your services and make some Simoleons as a renowned tattoo artist. We take a look at how you can maximise your tattooing skill, and ink all your friends.

What Is The Tattooing Skill?

The tattooing skill allows Sims to give others tattoos. In order to tattoo you’ll need:

Deluxe Tattoo Table By Laktastic – $736

This can be purchased from the build and buy catalog. You won’t need anything else and there isn’t a cost to tattoo someone. Once you have the table, you can offer paid tattoo services to a Sim or ask them to allow you to practice on them. At level seven, you can also offer touch-ups and tattoo removal as chargeable services. The easiest way to manage this is using the new small business system.

If you have a sketchpad, you can also design tattoos for $50. They will appear in your inventory on canvas, and you can sell them in the same way as paintings. At maximum skill, our Sim produced an excellent design worth almost $1,900.

Where Can Tattoos Be Added?

There are 11 body parts which tattoos can be applied to: head, chest, left upper arm, right upper arm, left lower arm, right lower arm, stomach, upper back, lower back, left leg, and right leg. Each one has a range of designs available.

The table below shows all the tattoo areas and the number of pre-designed tattoos available for each one including unlockable and DLC specific options.

You can also go into Create A Sim to apply both pre-designed and custom-designed tattoos to Sims, using the stamp tools, stencils or freehand paint tools provided.

How To Increase Your Tattooing Skill

You can increase your tattooing skill with the following methods:

Reading Books – Purchase Tattooing Skill Books for $75, $150, and $250 for the three volumes. Reading volume one levels skills from one to three inclusive, volume two is for skill levels from four to six, and volume three will take you from level seven to max.

Practicing On A Sim – Select the tattooing table, then choose Practice On and select a Sim. Sims you don’t know well will often refuse this request, but if they do comply, your skill will increase. Practicing with low skill and in a bad mood is the easiest way to unlock designs requiring you to do poor tattoos.

Designing Tattoos On The Digital Sketchpad – It costs $50 to design a tattoo and skill builds as you draw. You can also unlock new designs using this method.

Offering Tattoo Services – You can offer services at a low skill level, but the price will also be low to reflect this. Sims can also decline the offer, which happens more frequently at lower levels.

Unlocks And Perks

As you level up your tattooing skills, you’ll unlock new designs and be able to charge more for your services. Here are all the perks and unlocks at each level of the tattooing skill.

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