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Tattoos

Unique customized
pieces for every customer

Piercings

Taking safety &
health seriously

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By Rose Walsh

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Welcome to
Smiley Dogg Tattoo

Professional Tattoo &
Piercing Studio

Based in the heart of the old quarter on North Main St, with a second studio located on the bustling Oliver Plunkett Street, both in Cork City, Smiley Dogg Tattoo specialize in high quality custom tattoos, body piercings and body jewellery. We are a custom tattoo studio meaning we do not replicate any of our designs, so each piece is unique and specially designed for each individual customer.

Here at Smiley Dogg Tattoo, we care about the quality of our artwork. We always do our utmost to give our customers the best of everything, maintaining exceptional customer service and ensure our artists and piercer go above and beyond so that our customers expectations are met and exceeded.

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10/10 experience, lovely staff, very welcoming and extremely professional, couldn’t recommend this place enough for a piercing!

~ Alice Campana, Customer

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This is the best tattoo shop in cork. My 3rd time there now and I received such good customer service. My tattoo was very well done too.

~ Michael Marvin, Customer

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Amazing tattoo shop! I have been going there for 3 years now since I was 16 and have gotten all my tattoos there. The staff are absolutely amazing and make my experience every time very comfortable, they're customer service is just lovely! I plan in the future to get all my tattoos from Smiley Dogg and look forward to experiencing it all in the shop.

~ Robyn Milner, Customer

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Been tattooed and pierced here a few times now, both top quality services! They are great bunch of lads, even when it's busy everyone has such a nice and welcoming attitude, great laughs and everyone is easy to talk to! Studio is always clean, and the variety of art styles is great too! Something for everyone and they sell amazing after care products. Will always come back!

~ Naoise O´Shea, Customer

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Got my nostril pierced here, everything was clearly explained to me beforehand. Staff were very polite and friendly; they really put my mind at ease since this was the first time I've had a piercing done here. The piercer was very thorough with cleaning procedures and very sure of what he was doing in general. Smiley Dogg is definitely where I'll be going for the rest of my piercings.

~ James Costello, Customer

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I've been in three times now to the lads here. Stand up professionals everytime. So friendly, not intimidating (getting your first tattoo can be a scary deal.) I recommend Hipos myself, his work is excellent and he is so quick, so any discomfort passes very quickly. I have sampled a few ink shops in Cork in my day and Smiley Dogg remains my no. 1 recommendation. They are usually booked out weeks in advance and rarely have the room for walk ins. That should tell you all you need to know. 10 outta 10

~ Tim O' Driscoll, Customer

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I´ve been to a lot of studios in my life and this one is by far the best one I´ve attended. Very professional and very clean. The piercer was a lovely guy, very helpful, just a lovely place to go, overall just a great experience.

~ Orla Sweeney, Customer

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Best shop in cork city, amazing artists super friendly and talented. You pay for top quality here.

~ Andrew Twomey, Customer

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In my opinion, it´s the best tattoo studio in Cork city at the moment. Great at hyper-realism and neotraditional specially among other styles. They are several tattooers so they cover pretty much any style. Friendly service and reliable professionals. Seriously stunning art in fairness.

~ Alexander Hidalgo, Customer

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The best tattoo studio ever in Ireland. They have Tattoo Artists from Ireland,, Spain... etc and they´ll do real any idea that you have in your mind, doesn´t matter the style tattoo you need, they will make it happen!!!

~ Carles Collado, Customer

Our Team

Salva Navalon

Tattoo Artist & Owner

Alberto Navalon

Piercer

Thor

Piercer

Ivan

Tattoo Artist

Gio

Tattoo Artist

Alex Jones

Tattoo Artist
Chase

Chase

Tattoo Artist
Crow

Crow

Tattoo Artist 

Miguel

Tattoo Artist

Samantha

Tattoo Artist

Brahim

Tattoo Artist

Pablo

Tattoo Artist
Marina

Marina

Receptionist

Eve

Receptionist

Dee

Management

Tattoo Designs

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