How to unlock more Tattoos in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies

One of the biggest and most exciting additions to The Sims 4 with the Businesses and Hobbies expansion pack is a whole new tattoo system. Not only can your sim now be inked from head to toe with custom art, but they can now become a tattooist themselves. 

The Businesses and Hobbies pack came with a lot of new ink to put on your sim, but a lot of it is locked behind gameplay within the Create a Sim menu. Unless you want to use the CAS unlock cheat, you’ll need to work through a whole career tattooing before you can unlock them all. 

How to unlock new tattoos in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies

There are three ways to unlock new tattoos in Businesses and Hobbies. By doing all of these things, you’ll be able to unlock plenty of new ink for your Sims. However, none of this comes easy, so you’ll need to be willing to put in the work:

• Doing bad tattoos on other Sims
• Increasing your Tattooing skill level
• Sketching a tattoo design on the Digitalistic Sketchpad

Playing through a career in tattooing and increasing your skill level will unlock new designs, stamps, and stencils that can be used to create a truly unique work of art on your Sim’s skin in The Sims 4. 

All unlockable tattoo designs in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies

30 new tattoo designs can be unlocked through tattooing and its associated activities in The Sims 4. Here’s how you can unlock them all, and pictures of every design so you know what you want to aim for.

Tattoos unlocked by giving a bad tattoo to another Sim

These 11 designs will likely be unlocked at a low level, before your skill increases a bit. You’re free to practice your designs on any willing test subject Sim for the cause, but they might not be happy with the results. Each bad tattoo is unlocked for the same body part on which you’ll need to tattoo the other Sim.

Appearance	Description	Body part
	Cat and moon	Lower left arm
	Heart, smiley, and stars	Upper left arm
	Flower and hearts	Lower right arm
	Bunny	Upper right arm
	Face and doodles	Left leg
	Fish with feet	Right leg
	Snake	Lower back
	Horse	Upper back
	Sun and clouds	Stomach
	Heart and scroll	Chest
	Aries symbol and text	Head

Tattoos unlocked by skill level

The following nine tattoo designs are unlocked as you level up your Tattooing skill, with one for every level you achieve aside from level one.

Appearance	Description	Level	Body part
	Voidcritter	2	Chest
	Freezer Bunny	3	Lower right arm
	Voidcritter	4	Stomach
	Celtic Snake	5	Upper left arm
	Vulpes Voidcritter	6	Left leg
	Floral	7	Upper right arm
	Simoleon in Clouds	8	Upper back
	Celtic chain	9	Right leg
	Full-Head Floral	10	Head

Tattoos unlocked via the Digitalistic Sketchpad

You’ll practice your tattoo design skills on the Digitalistic Sketchpad, and with every design that you complete, you’ll have a chance to unlock one of nine new tattoo designs depending on your current skill level. These aren’t guaranteed, but if you keep drawing on the Sketchpad, you’ll unlock them all eventually. 

Appearance	Description	Level	Body part
	Roses	1	Lower right arm
	Raccoon	1	Stomach
	Celtic Simoleon	2	Lower back
	Botanical	3	Right leg
	Botanical	4	Lower left arm
	Roses	5	Lower back
	Botanical	6	Head
	Botanical	7	Chest
	Floral hip	8	Left leg
	Magpies	9	Upper back

All unlockable tattoo stamps and stencils in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies

There are also nine new Stamp designs and two full-body Stencils that can be unlocked as you increase your Tattooing skill level. These can be found within the Paint Mode when adding tattoos in Create a Sim. 

Stamps

Appearance	Description	Level
	Key	1
	Flames	3
	Calligraphy	4
	Cats	5
	Pigeon	6
	Cute Skull	7
	Triskelion	8
	Turtle	9
	Crystal Heart	10

Stencils

Appearance	Description	Level
	Dots and Eyes	5
	Leaves and Waves	10