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. 

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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. 

Table of contents

  • How to unlock new tattoos in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies
  • All unlockable tattoo designs in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies
    • Tattoos unlocked by giving a bad tattoo to another Sim
    • Tattoos unlocked by skill level
    • Tattoos unlocked via the Digitalistic Sketchpad
  • All unlockable tattoo stamps and stencils in The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies
    • Stamps
    • Stencils

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

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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

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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.

AppearanceDescriptionBody partCat and moonLower left armHeart, smiley, and starsUpper left armFlower and heartsLower right armBunnyUpper right armFace and doodlesLeft legFish with feetRight legSnakeLower backHorseUpper backSun and cloudsStomachHeart and scrollChestAries symbol and textHead

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.

AppearanceDescriptionLevelBody partVoidcritter2ChestFreezer Bunny3Lower right armVoidcritter4StomachCeltic Snake5Upper left armVulpes Voidcritter6Left legFloral 7Upper right armSimoleon in Clouds8Upper backCeltic chain9Right legFull-Head Floral10Head

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. 

AppearanceDescriptionLevelBody partRoses1Lower right armRaccoon1StomachCeltic Simoleon2Lower backBotanical3Right legBotanical 4Lower left armRoses5Lower backBotanical6HeadBotanical7ChestFloral hip8Left legMagpies9Upper 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

AppearanceDescriptionLevelKey1Flames3Calligraphy4Cats5Pigeon6Cute Skull7Triskelion8Turtle9Crystal Heart10

Stencils

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