Ideas for Tattoos
By relache
The #2 Tattoo Question
It's true. Questions about ideas for what to get for a tattoo always fall second to the inevitable "does it hurt?" Yes, tattooing hurts.
Now, how do you choose what to get tattooed? This is a much more interesting question as every single person will take their own path and methods for picking what design to have etched into their skin. In the almost 20 years that I've been a tattooed person now, the best answer I've found for that is "whatever the answer is, it's best when it comes from something inside you, not something outside of you."
I believe if you think carefully about what you are really commemorating and think about yourself as a person, you can successfully pick a tattoo design that you can live with happily the rest of your life.
One of the keys to this is, if you have any doubts about any part of the tattooing process or your tattoo design at all, wait and don't do it yet.
If you have any doubts about if you'll still like it years from now, if a certain person might see it and freak out or get angry, what it might make co-workers or friends think about you, if you have ANY of those doubts, I really suggest you wait for a while and then think about if you're ready to get a tattoo later.
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Tattoos in the News
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- Liam Gallagher Wants To Tattoo His Lyrics To Ian McCulloch's Forehead - Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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- Much ink spilled over tattoo crackdown in Japan - Winnipeg Free Press
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Popular Personal Tattoo Design Ideas
Many people choose to make their tattoo be about themselves or their immediate family. This is a pretty good choice, as having something that will remain significant or relevant to you for your entire life is often a good element of a tattoo design.
The one tattoo "taboo" is to get the name of a partner or lover. I mean, sure people do it all the time. However from all the people I've talked to in the last 20 years, and everything I've read about the subject of "name tattoos," that is the one area where tattoos very quickly go wrong. Names of parents, children, grandchildren, family surnames, and even your own name all seem to be things people can live with. But a person who is not related by blood whom you fall in love with seems to be the one name or image which is doomed to become hated or removed. So just don't go there...
Think about:
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Family crests or emblems
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Favorite flowers, animals
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Prayers or blessings of personal significance
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Images of pets or children
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Symbols of religious faith
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Sports logs or colors
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Emblems of ethnic heritage or ancestry
Tattoo Design Links and Suggestions
- Hottest Tattoo Designs!
This lens features the best in tattoo design pictures. Check out the hottest star, lower back, arm, sacred heart, butterfly and wing tattoo designs. See the latest in tattooing designs and get ideas for your tattoo! - AllFamilyCrests.com
Free to view your family crest, coat of arms. Worldwide graphics with Irish, German, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, English, Welsh, UK, Canada, Australia and America. - Choosing Your Tattoo Design and Where to Put It
You've decided on the artist for your new tattoo, but now the question: what to get and where to put it. Although this is all really a matter of personal preference, there are some things that can possibly help you in making this decision. - Graphic Tribe Tattoos Photo Archives
Image archives of tattoos by Dali Rau, designer and tattoo artist at Graphic Tribe Tattoos, in Tokyo, Japan. - Tattoo Designs
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I got tattooed with a boyfriend and lived with the tattoo happily ever after!
It's true. Once-upon-a-time in the summer of 1989 at writing workshop in the Midwest called Clarion, a young college graduate from CA fell in love with an intense writer from NY, and they got tattooed together.
We got tattooed on what also happened to be Bastille Day that year. It was his first tattoo... and my third. In fact, it was exactly five months to the day after my second tattoo... which also happened to take place five months to the day after my first one.
We got a Mayan phonetic glyph. We wanted something that encapsulated the writing workshop experience as well as our relationship without necessarily being specific to one or the other. Our glyph came from Mayan blood ritual carvings, and means "to know, feel and remember."
In case you were wondering, that man and I are long-since broken-up. In fact, it's now been twenty years since I got that tattoo. And I'm still very happy with what it represents and means to me.
How Did You Come Up With Your Tattoo Idea(s)?
Wow, Scary!!
I have a rose tattoo on my shoulder with my hubby name under nearth. So love my tattoo...great pictures here :)
Cheers
Lisa
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Thanks for this Info, my friend will be so exciting to check this. I really appreciate your work over here
tats tell some amazing stories, thanks for the information and art ideas!
I live in Sydney Australia, and most young guys and women too have tattoos of some sort or another. I see a lot of tribal tattoos on Pacific Islanders, Fijians, Samoans and Maoris. But a lot of white guys think its cool to have similar tattoos - mostly on their arms or on their legs just below the knee. Most Japanese Yakuza gang tatts are hidden under their shirts... but then you can look for missing pinky fingers to identify some of them. That's their way of saying 'sorry' when they have offended the boss. Ouch!
love tats
hey i have an idea of a tatto this is a skull wearing this mexican mm m i dont know the name of it but its something warrior wear on top of their heads with feathers kind of like a hat
Yes i like tattoos !!
very nice designs
chweet, I always tell people who feel like you do that I don't think they are ready to get tattooed yet. Remember, you have your entire lifetime, there's nothing wrong with waiting.
I have always wanted to get a tattoo but am afraid of the pain or worse, i fear i may regret getting it. LOL
Great hub!
always wanted to get one just can never make up my mind, the thing is so permanent that I dont think I'll ever be able to but who knws, great page.
I really got a good feel about tattoo's, and thanks to your informative hub page Iam looking at getting my first.
Great pic at the top of your friends arm!
i appreciate for your nice discusion.
That's really your choice, firetown, and shouldn't be based on someone else's decision. Only you can tell what's appropriate for your own life.
I have no tats, where do you recommend my first one?
I got my first 3 tattoos as a young soldier long before they became a social favourite for everybody.
I had a few more as I grew older and would still be happy to apply more tattoos. The stigma that used to exist is long gone and that's great for everybody.
"I say have a tattoo wherever you feel you want to". Have what you like and never be shy to show them off. They say something about your personality and that is a good honest way to express yourself.
Thank you for allowing views from fellow tattoo wearers! Wishing you great success.
John From Dog Obedience Training




Angela 6 months ago
I want a tattoo on my foot about my grandbabies! Help!! Like:Grandbabies are forever
or: grandbabies...Awsome!!