I came here after researching all the tattoo shops in London, and this shop seemed to be the only one taking walk-in appointments that day. I was in a rush to get my tattoo because I was only going to be in London for a couple more days. I reached out to them via WhatsApp because my phone wouldn't allow me to call phone numbers outside of the US. They responded very quickly and provided me with the next open slot that day. I came in at 2pm, explained what I wanted, and was on the table at 2:30pm after we figured out the sizing and color. My tattoo was small but filled with color, and I was charged just 100 pounds. This was a great deal because I was quoted 200 pounds elsewhere. My tattoo artist was Josh. Thank you so much for the wonderful tattoo!! read more

My second tattoo done here. Very happy with the service the guys make you feel at ease and the prices are reasonable. if looking for a tattoo best place to go read more

Little to no customer service. Along side a hostile atmosphere. After agreeing and saying to be there before 3. I had travelled an hour to get there. To be told, no stock to do a piercing That I wanted. Felt bad so managed to buy a bar thinking that would be fine and that the shop would get there fee. This why the shop 2.5 out far 5 stars. Avoid There's a lovely shop called crystals Who also does piercing for the 20 pound a few doors down. He was so good I had given a £20 tip read more

I had my first done at Fulham Tattoo Centre. The Tattoo artist was Scott. I wanted to get a Tattoo at this place because (i) it had a good reputation in terms of talent of the artists, (ii) it was said to be super clean and (iii) being a Chelsea fan, I wanted to get a Tattoo from the Tattoo shop next door to the arena and where some players got their own tattoos done. My verdict: -I am happy with the Tattoo, it is well done. However, now that I am more experienced with Tattoos, I think that a little more details and shading would have been appropriate and would have made the Tattoo go from "I love it" to "it s so awesome and fantastic!" -nothing to say on the clean criteria: it is indeed very very clean -atmosphere/attitude: well the guys are not so nice and not friendly. I guess this why I am not giving the five stars; -price: around 130£ an hour I would say. I consider this average pricing: with the whole tattoo fashion thing that's been going on these last years, some shops have been overcharging and in my opinion Fulham Tattoo Centre didn't do that. Even though this place lacks a bit of customer service/attitude I recommend this place! read more

After I was tattooed awfully elsewhere 6 years ago, I seeked the help of a professionals opinion. It was only fairly small and I wanted to cover it up with a design, and was flexible in what it could be. After all, anything was better than the scribble I already had. I was recommended Fulham Tattoo Centre by a work colleague. I was showed their work online and liked what I saw. But after trying to get in contact several times, I found the shop was not what it was cracked up to be. Over the phone staff/artists were unhelpful. Mainly in the sense that they were unprofessional, answered the phone completely unenthusiastically and carried the conversation with one-words answers purely as if they didn't want to be there. I also sent emails with attached images of the "tattoo" I already had. And small flexible design ideas I had for the cover-up. Unable to receive any advice, I was told to visit the shop and talk in person. I pursued with setting up a consultation. We organised a time and date that I'd visit the shop. After rearranging my shifts at work and a journey consisting of 3 trains I reached the shop on time and was told everyone was busy and to come back later. Reluctant after the extensive journey I had just travelled, but still impressed by the artwork I saw - I popped to a nearby coffee shop for a while unphased by this. After an artist would finally take time out to see me the ever-growing unprofessionalism continued. I was stood in the front of the shop for no longer than 3 mins until I was ushered out. Given no real advice for a cover-up, told to go home, think of a real design and come back. I gave up. A real wasted trip. With having no success and a real bad experience - and the unhelpful, unprofessional and unorganised staff inside: I would NOT recommend them at all and urge anyone seeking a design idea to take their custom to a tattooist that cares. read more

I would highly recommend the Fulham Tattoo Centre..I originally went in there to enquire about getting an old unwanted tattoo covered up..Scott and Will couldn't have been more helpful...discussed my ideas with them and was really impressed with how helpful they were.. Booked with them to come back to get the Tattoo done within 2 weeks...the standard of Hygiene used in their studios was impeccable...was made to feel comfortable throughout the whole process and would genuinely recommend these guys to everyone ... Will done an amazing job with my cover up tattoo and if I decide that I want any more tattoos in the future then I would go straight back to them...THIS REALLY IS AN AMAZING TATTOO CENTRE!! read more

Fulham Tattoo Centre - Cover up tattoo done by Will at the Fulham Tattoo Centre :)) - Tattoo Near Me - London, XGL

over the past 3 years, I've had 7 tattoos and 4 piercings at Fulham. Their service is warm and friendly and the staff are always a laugh. The place is always clean and tidy. One of my tattoos was very sensitive to me as it was for my nan who just passed away, and the guys handled the situation in such a gentle way. My awesome tattooist Scott got started on me as soon as he walked through the door. I wouldn't go anywhere else for piercings or tattoos again- Fulham is highly recommended. read more

I think that show 'Miami Ink' has had a profound, negative effect on the guys at Fulham Tattoo Centre. I think they've watched it a few too many times and picked up some really bad influences from it. When I first started going there a good few years ago now, I liked it because of how clinical the place was; clean, white, doctors surgery-like - not at all tacky. It was the kind of place you went when to wanted to avoid clichéd 'tourist' tattoo/piercing shops like Cold Steel who take themselves way too seriously (I mean they're only shoving bits of metal into people, anyone would think they were finding the cure for cancer with how self-righteous some of those guys and girls act!) It was the kind of place you trusted. Where you know you wouldn't walk out with a rubbish new tattoo and a free side order of Hep C. Terry, the founder and owner seemed to take a lot of pride in the fact that his place was where you went to get a great piece of artwork done safely by highly skilled professionals. Every time I went in there all the staff seemed happy, friendly and very eager to help you out with whatever you wanted to do. Even if you didn't really know what you wanted - they were always great with helping you decide and design things around your vague ideas. Now fast forward to today. Instead of a place that prides itself on being the best tattoo shop around (and they certainly used to be) the Fulham Tattoo Centre has now adopted the gimmick of being "The Tattooist To The Stars". Blahhh! Instead of letting their artists work speak for itself, their new marketing tactic is something like, "Hey! This is the guy who tattooed Oxide and Neutrino (?) ten years ago! He could tattoo YOU as well! Wanna go?!" And..."You know that third division footballer who no one really cares about? Well he got tattooed RIGHT HERE! Come on in, peasants! Be like the beautiful, shiny celebrities!" This obsession with celebrity has made the place unbearably tacky. They're actually proud of the fact that Jodie Marsh got some ink done there for God's sake! (I'm SO glad all the plastic on the chairs is changed between clients - I dread to think what I could have picked up from sitting on something her fanny got anywhere near!) I see from their website that they have also now opened another site in Richmond and from the pictures I can see that they're desperately trying to make it look as 'Miami Ink' as possible right down to the tacky neon lights and hideous UltraViolet skull, dagger and snake motif logo they've designed for themselves. Basically, every tattoo shop cliché you can think of, they've now adopted it. Everything I loved about the 'no nonsense, just great body art' Fulham Tattoo Centre of a few years ago is gone forever and that's a real shame. So where do they get the 2 stars? Firstly, you can't fault them at all on their standards of hygiene. The place is immaculate, they use the highest quality equipment and needles are never re-used. They'll always take the needles out of the sealed packet in front of you for your own peace of mind. The prices are fair and consistent with the very strict tattoo laws in this country. For example, even if you only get a tiny, simple tattoo - if all the rules are followed to the letter with regards to hygiene then the minimum possible amount it could come to is £40. If you've got a tattoo that was less than £40, you probably had sub-standard or even worse, re-used equipment used on you. The second star is for the absolutely exquisite work done by the artists in there. There seems to have been quite a high turnover of staff over the years from what I could see from my (many) visits but every time I've been in there, the work done has been amazing, from conception to design to execution. It's just too bad that washed-up "celebrities" are the main selling point of this place now and not the fabulous work of their artists alone. read more

Was recommended this place, so didn't go by any reviews right up until a day or two before getting the actual tattoo. I had a design and asked for their input. Scott dealt with this and provided good communication and input into amending my design and it now makes the tattoo itself stand out that bit more on my forearm (which has no other tattoos). The guys I met there were very cool and approachable. Another employee was present while Scott done the tattoo and they didn't talk too much to get on my nerves and they wasn't silent to make me feel uncomfortable. So all this talk about FTC being influenced by Miami Ink is a load of ... hating wildebeest manure. These guys are humble and a joy to get a tatt from. Scott was very professional in the prep work (hygiene, shaving of area where the tatt was going on, etc) and wasn't too rough so I literally felt little to no pain and it was over before I knew it. I hadn't had a tatt in a while, so again, Scott was helpful in giving after care advice which I followed down to a tea and as a result and a few weeks down the line, the tatt has healed extremely well and looks perfect. I highly recommended getting your tatt here, whether it be your first or addition(s) to an already present collection. So much so, I am already in touch with them to sort out getting an add on tribal to the tribal I have as an upper arm half sleeve which I got years back. 10/10. read more

As far as service, no good.. I went there a couple of days ago and i had to wait for 10 minutes to be attended to, even though i could hear 2 staff members in a backroom chatting away, no needles buzzing or anything.. eventually this german sounding bloke with a beard came out, completely arrogant attitude, cut me off in mid sentence and began talking to someone else.. As part of a business i dont understand his logic, i live close by and could have become a regular.. Anyhow, there are loads of other options so I wont be going back. read more

I came here with my girlfriend to get her tragus pierced. The lady at the counter was rude and unpleasant. She made us feel uneasy and upon asking her to go in with my girlfriend to hold her hand, this lady said no without any explanation. Rather than trying to make this a comfortable experience, she was angry. She made us feel so uneasy that even after paying we decided to leave without getting the piercing. I can't comment on the quality of the tattoos or piercings because after this atrocious level of customer service we couldn't even proceed further. This was a very scary experience, not to be recommended. read more

Worst piercing experience of my life! I went to get a septum done. Now, I already have 4 peircings (belly button, tongue, medusa and micro dermal) and would like to think I can handle a little bit of pain. There, I started to scream and cry! The piercer took an aweful long time to pierce and in the end could not put the jewellery through. He blamed it on me, said that I had touched his hand when he was piercing. I was left there crying with a hole in my nose, no jewellery and a tissue soaked with blood. Despite all of that, the overall experience was absolutely aweful! He didn't try at any point to make me comfortable, didn't introduce himself or shook my hand; just gave me orders and was generally unpleasant (wouldn't even dry up the water on the chair he asked me to seat on). When I started to worry that he was actually going to pierce through the cartilage (which he did), he shouted: "Are you saying I don't know how to do my job? Cause if you're not sure, I' ve got a tattoo waiting upstairs!" I felt really intimidated and I think we can agree piercing and tattoo parlours are intimidating places to start with. But all my previous piercers were the nicest people and understood a client should be made confortable...not shouted at because they've got better things to do. I got my money back in the end but definitely feeling a bit traumatised. Run away kids! read more

The review from Bernadette P. in 2009 is SO very accurate. I mean, I've been inked and pierced in this place and the attitude absolutely stinks. I wasn't old enough to know a time when their attitude didn't stink so I can't say what it was like before, but honestly the conduct in here is awful. I went in here with a couple of friends when we were 17, we were getting a nipple piercing each. We filled in the forms with our details. That afternoon, one of my friends got a friend request on Facebook from one of the guys at the studio, who was like 25 years old at the VERY minimum. He wasn't the guy who pierced her, but the guy who handed us the forms, and had used the forms to get her information to try and add her, after seeing her ID that said she was 17 years old. And honestly she looked about 14 years old back then. So gross. This would have been 2009. The second time I went in there in 2012, my friend wanted a tattoo consultation. Her first tattoo, we were 20 at the time, and she wanted some writing and was interested in fonts and things. Generally she just wanted a 20 minute conversation with someone. She made it clear when she went in that she wanted to talk about booking a tattoo, could she talk to someone about what she wanted. She described what she wanted, they showed her a book of lettering and then honestly about five minutes later, she gets a clipboard shoved in her face. She told the man that she hadn't decided and she was going to make a decision, then book for a future time. He told her and I quote (I'll never forget it) "Then you're wasting our time, you could just do it now." I had already had a tattoo before, my first tattoo was a medium sized back tattoo, and this was NOT the experience I had had, in a different venue. I had been given the time to discuss what I wanted, showed them ideas and they hand drawn ways they thought they could improve the design etc. A back and forth proper discussion about what I was getting. They said it would take 2 hours, it took 4 because I had let him add some freehand stuff to it and they gave me a discount because it was my first tattoo and had taken longer. The experience was fantastic, and the way it should always be. (La Familia tattoo studios in Newquay, Cornwall). She went to fill out the form in this place purely out of embarrassment, I snatched it out of her hand, shoved it back in his and marched her straight out the door. Etiquette like that is NOT okay. She didn't ever get the tattoo in the end. This shows that the experience had ruined it for her, but it also tells me she would have been pressurised by some wank into paying £80 for something she didn't want. The only time I succumbed to getting a tattoo in there, was when I had a design that I had drawn myself, a small wrist tattoo, and being impatient I just wanted it done. I went in there and said "I want this." and they did it in fifteen minutes, in and out the door just because they happened to be local. But to be honest I feel bad I even gave them that business and I will never set foot in the place again. The most conversation I had was when one of the staff decided to tell me that Ed Sheehan had been inked there. I mean.. seriously. Haha. If you know exactly the design that you want, and where you want it, and you just need a clean place where you can get it done, then feel free to go in there. Can't imagine what there prices would be these days but whatever. If you're interested in getting something done thats interesting or unusual or a bigger project, something that needs input from an actual artist, honestly it is so worth it to go elsewhere. There are plenty of places in London that will treat you properly and give you the experience that you deserve. read more