10-Day Beginner Tattoo Course
Go from complete beginner to tattooing a live model in ten days. Our most complete course, taught in small groups in central Leeds.
£1,899 from
Secure your place with a £300 deposit.
West Yorkshire
Want to learn to tattoo and based in Huddersfield? Train at Leeds Tattoo College, an accredited college that is an easy trip from Huddersfield. Small classes, real skin and live models, and a CPD accredited course with a certificate of competence at the end.
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Courses
Every course is open to students travelling from Huddersfield and across West Yorkshire.
Go from complete beginner to tattooing a live model in ten days. Our most complete course, taught in small groups in central Leeds.
£1,899 from
Secure your place with a £300 deposit.
Start straight into the fine-line style clients ask for most. Four focused days on delicate single-needle line work, for beginners.
£1,299 from
Secure your place with a £250 deposit.
For SPMU, microblading and beauty professionals: add fine-line tattooing to your services in a focused two-day intensive.
£1,099 from
Secure your place with a £250 deposit.
Dates
All dates are at our Leeds studio and open to Huddersfield students. Places are limited to keep groups small.
What's included
Who it is for
Different starting points, same goal. Find yours.
Never held a machine? Start with the 10-Day Beginner Course and go from zero to tattooing a live model in two weeks.
10-Day Beginner Course
Want to specialise in the fine-line and single-needle style clients ask for most? The 4-Day Fine Line Course is built for that.
4-Day Fine Line Course
Already work in SPMU, microblading or beauty? Add fine-line tattooing to your services in a focused two-day intensive.
2-Day Fine Line CourseLearning to tattoo from Huddersfield
If you are based in Huddersfield, structured tattoo training is a fast train ride away. Leeds Tattoo College teaches in small groups with working artists in central Leeds, so you can commute in without a long or expensive journey.
Students travel to us from across Huddersfield and the surrounding towns, from Brighouse and Mirfield to Holmfirth and Lindley. You can take the full 10-day course or a short fine line course and travel in each day.
Getting here
around 20 minutes by fast train from Huddersfield into Leeds. Leeds is one of Leeds's best-connected stations and the studio is a few minutes away.
about 35-50 minutes by road via the M62 depending on traffic. In practice the train or a bus is usually faster than driving into Leeds.
regular bus routes connect Huddersfield with Leeds city centre, dropping you close to the studio.
Huddersfield is close enough for a daily commute; most local students travel in by train each morning rather than staying over.
Find us
Leeds Tattoo College
Great George Street
Leeds, LS1 3DL
The studio is on Great George Street in central Leeds (LS1 3DL), by the Town Hall and Millennium Square; about ten minutes' walk from Leeds railway station, and well served by local rail and city bus routes. We send full arrival directions when you book.
Get directionsWhy make the trip
We cap every course at a handful of students so a tutor watches your work, not a lecture hall. You get real bench time, not a seat at the back.
Artificial skin is where you start, not where you finish. Every course ends with a supervised tattoo on a live model, because that is the only way to be ready.
Your tutors tattoo professionally. You learn how the craft actually works today, from technique to how a studio really runs.
Cross-contamination control and blood-borne pathogen safety run through every course, to the standards UK studios and clients expect.
You finish with a Leeds Tattoo College Certificate of Competence and a folder of supervised work you can put in front of any studio.
Your questions do not stop on the last day. We help with your portfolio, finding work, and the steps to setting up on your own.
We regularly welcome students from across West Yorkshire, including Brighouse, Mirfield, Holmfirth, Meltham, Lindley, Almondbury.
We also train students from Halifax, Harrogate, Dewsbury, Castleford, Pontefract. See every area we cover.
Reviews
I started the 10-day course never having held a machine and tattooed a live model by the end. The small group meant the tutor actually watched every line I did.
The 4-day fine line course was exactly what I wanted. I came out able to hold a clean single-needle line and I've been building a fine-line portfolio since.
I run a microblading studio and the 2-day course let me add fine-line tattoos to my services in a weekend. It assumed I already knew skin and hygiene, which saved so much time.
Genuinely the most professional training I looked at in Leeds. Real bench time, real feedback, and the hygiene side was taken seriously from day one. Worth every penny.
Travelled in from Brighton for the beginner diploma and it was completely worth the trip. Small class, patient tutors, and I left with a portfolio I could actually show studios.
I'd done an online course before and learned almost nothing. This was the opposite. Hands on machines from the first morning, corrected in real time. I finally feel ready to guest.
The hygiene and blood-borne pathogen side was covered properly, which is exactly what studios asked me about at interview. I walked in with a certificate and a portfolio and got the spot.
The small group meant I never felt lost or rushed. The tutors are working artists so the feedback is honest and current, not something read off a slide. Best decision I've made for my career.
As an SPMU artist the 2-day course was perfect. Focused, no filler, and it respected what I already knew. I was offering fine-line tattoos to my clients the following week.
Still deciding
If you are travelling from Huddersfield and want to check dates, plan your stay, or ask about a course, we are happy to help. Read our FAQs or get in touch and we will reply within one working day. You can also see all the places we welcome students from on our locations page.