Friday, April 30, 2010

Best Women Tattoo Designs

Women's tattoo designs have grown enormously at a fast rate. Even just twenty years ago you were just starting to see women with tattoos, and most of these women kept them in discrete places so they could cover them up.

One of the very first women to sport tattoos was Betty Broadbent in 1927. She became known as the first tattooed lady; displaying her body art with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Not only was Betty the first to have a full body tattoo, but she was also the first to have her self tattooed by the electric tattoo machine.

Now in 2010, you can pretty much find a tattoo parlor in every city, as well as women sporting some pretty great tattoo designs all over the world.

Tattoos in general are now available in more colors and with pretty much any kind of design you like. If you are going to an exceptional tattoo artist, they can pretty much duplicate anything you like.

Women's tattoo designs over the years have pretty much evolved from simple 'names' and 'roses' to outrageous designs like 'flowers down the back', 'the tramp stamps' and 'angel wings'.

Also, women are no longer getting tattoos that they keep hidden.

Star Tattoo Designs

The star tattoo is one of the most popular tattoo designs that people look for. There are a couple of reasons for this. One of them is the fact that the star design looks great on almost anyone. One of the reasons is that it is a great first tattoo, in most cases it is small and quick to have done. Meaning a less painful tattoo for someone new to them. This is not always the case as there are some very intricate star tattoo designs.

How many points do you want the star to have? You may want to have a 4 or 5 pointed start or even one with 7 or 8 points, this is primarily a personal preference depending on what you feel would look best.

Do you want it to be a solid color or multiple colors? This also plays into the look and feel of the tattoo and also helps it stand out. You can have your tattoo with a solid color, like black, or you can have a few colors to give your tattoo more vibrant.

What is the right size for the star tattoo design? You will want to pick a size that will look best on the area that you want your tattoo to go.

Back Tattoos For Men

There are not many different ways to search around for back tattoos for men. When it comes to doing this online, you basically have search engines, which leads everybody to the most generic laced websites, which post nothing but cookie cutter junk. That's the exact reason I want to share this next little tip, because you can easily pin point the galleries that have fresh, original, well drawn back tattoos for men.

If you are like me and countless others, you truly do want to find a design that fits "you". The problem is that people aren't finding that type of original artwork, and instead bump into these horrible galleries that post the most cookie cutter images. You get stuck in a loop of generic back tattoos for men. This holds especially true, when you are looking for websites through a search engine.

While this is the end of the road for most men and women, it doesn't have to be that way for you. You have a much better option, because there's an easier way to get directly to the great websites that take pride in posting crisp, well drawn back tattoos for men. You find these places by using forums to your advantage. Big forums to be exact. To put it bluntly this is your choice for inside knowledge and info on so many separate tattoo related issues.

The best part is that you only need one main part of the forum. You need their archive sections. Any big forum you find will do the job just as good. Inside of these archives are loads and loads of past topics on tattoo subjects. All you have to do to find great galleries of back tattoos for men is start skimming through some topics. So much info is kept here, including posts where other guys have share where they've found truly great artwork for their own tattoo. It's this kind of hidden gallery that tends to feature the best, most original artwork.

It's a small change to how most of you are used to looking for back tattoos for men, but it's the one way that finally works.

Here are the 3 largest, most original websites to pick from thousands of quality Back Tattoos for Men.

Great Tattoos Designs For Men

With the countless kinds of tattoos designs for men that are available, it is truly unbelievably hard to pick out one that's perfect for you. You would have to screen the tattoos designs for men that you think you want to be put on your skin and then sort out the feelings that you get when you see yourself wearing the certain design. Not to mention the pressure that the word permanency puts on you when it comes to tattoos. It's not like you can just change it overnight or have it erased a week after.

So it is really very important for you to select a design wisely. You can do this by basing your judgment on a couple of important things. I have listed them down so you can check if the particular tattoos designs for men that you have selected is your final choice.

Here are 3 effective ways to know if the tattoo design is really the perfect design for you:

Select between having words or an image tattoo design.

Monkey Tattoos - Great Personality For Great Tattoo Designs

This is what monkeys are popular for. But, let's not forget that wit is also one of the monkey's well known traits. So, what better tattoo designs to reflect your personality than that of monkey tattoos?

Mostly the designs used for monkey tattoos are the many folkloric tales that monkeys starred in. One example of the monkey character from these great tales is from the Indian art called Hanuman the Monkey, which is an incarnation of Shiva - a Hindu god. Bravery, loyalty and devotion are among the distinct qualities of Shiva, the symbol of man and beast. A sample idea for a tattoo design is the monkey god chasing a flying sun.

Chinese monkey tattoos is yet another popular design depicting the animal as a god. There are actually several depictions for these Chinese monkeys reflecting different stories. Monkey designs may feature designs of woodblock-type image, or a simple kanji script reflecting the animal's 9th zodiac sign of the Chinese.

During the ancient times in Japan, monkeys were considered as messengers of the gods and symbolize harmonious marriage, fertility and safe child birth.

Monkey tattoos mostly illustrate the animal from their cute and charming images to caricatures.

Female Tattoo Gallery

The most popular tattoo designs for women include butterfly tattoos, tribal tattoos, star tattoos, flower tattoos and fairy tattoos. The most popular tattoo spots for girls and woman are the lower back, wrists and feet. Old school tattoos are in vogue at the moment as well.

Female Tattoo Gallery
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Female Fairy Tattoo

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Cody Todd

We are extending the Tattooed Poets Project through the weekend, giving those who have been enjoying the poetic ink, a little bit more to tide them over until next year.

Today we are being visited by an old friend, Cody Todd, whose tattoos appeared here last year.

This is his latest tattoo, four weeks old, inked at Purple Panther Tattoos off of Sunset in Los Angeles:


Cody provided this explanation:

Not too much of a story behind this. It is Marv and Goldie from the "The Hard Goodbye" of Frank Miller's Sin City. The artist who did this is from Tokyo, and her name is Koko Ainai. I admire the precision of her work in copying Miller's extremely elaborate sketching. As Marv and Goldie embrace, he is holding a gun he apparently took away from her and a bullet hole is smoldering in his right shoulder as he lifts her off the ground. That tattoo is the first of what is going to be a kind of sleeve in parts in which I take different scenes from noir films or works and decorate my whole left arm with. Upon seeing Farewell My Lovely with my girlfriend last week, I decided to get the front end of a 1934 or 1936 Buick as my next tattoo.

...I am doing my critical work for my PhD at USC on the "western noir," which is a term I sort of coined for a specific genre of film and literature concerned with elements that typically comprise classical film noir, except they take place in cities in the western part of the United States. As we see in the film, Sin City, it has a "Gothic City" feel to it, but it is most certainly somewhere out in western Nevada, or California. I think the motifs of lawlessness, street and vigilante justice, and the disillusionment with the American Dream are all at work in this kind of genre, and that it also borrows many elements from the Western as a genre as well. If anyone wants to read good literary western noir, I would direct them, promptly, to read Daniel Woodrell, who takes the noir theme and brings it to the Ozarks and southwest Missouri. If Chandler and Faulkner had a love-child, it most certainly would be Woodrell.

Head over to BillyBlog and read one of Cody's poems here.

Cody Todd is the author of the chapbook, To Frankenstein, My Father (2007, Proem Press). His poems have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Salt Hill and are forthcoming in Lake Effect, The Pinch, Specs Journal and Denver Quarterly. He received an MFA from Western Michigan University and is currently a Virginia Middleton Fellow in the PhD program in English-Literature/Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. He is the Managing Editor and co-creator of the poetry journal, The Offending Adam (www.theoffendingadam.com).

Japanese Dragonfly Tattoo



Japanese Dragonfly Tattoo

tribal star tattoo girls

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shoulder star tattoos for guys

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shoulder star tattoos ideas for guys

samurai tattoo on back body

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sunflower tattoo designs for girls

sunflower tattoo designs sunflower tattoo star designs for girls on upper shoulders

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weed tattoos for girls lower back

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cute and small weed tattoos with green colours can make your body look unique, you can put weed tattoos designs on lower back or ribs to get pretty tattoos

We Want Boor








Tattooist submission from Timothy B. Boor, which I somehow missed in my inbox! Sorry!

We Want Boor








Tattooist submission from Timothy B. Boor, which I somehow missed in my inbox! Sorry!

Gazongas


Lordy, Roman Abrego! She looks like a sweet, innocent girl...

Gazongas


Lordy, Roman Abrego! She looks like a sweet, innocent girl...

My Hoot Skipped A Beat


Lisa sent in this brilliant submission done by Phil Young at Hope Gallery, New Haven, CT.

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Ashley sent in pics of her and her husbands matching tattoos, based on album art for Handsome Furs' Plague Park.

The Tattooed Poets Project: Jozi Tatham

Today's tattoo (and remember folks, we're continuing through May 2!) belongs to Jozi Tatham, who was referred to us by the Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Brenda Cárdenas (thanks Brenda!).

Her tattoo is certainly amazing:


Jozi had this tattoo done by Steve Bossler, who owns Greenseed Studios in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She had met him originally at Papes Blue Ribbon Tattoo in Milwaukee. Steve splits his time between the two locations.

Jozi explains the inspiration behind this tattoo:

I have wanted this back tattoo for years now. Where the Wild Things Are was my favorite book growing up. Because I have since become a writer, it's extremely important to me to remember the childhood imagination and creativity that we are all born with, but which we often "outgrow". I refuse to grow up and let my imagination slip away, and hopefully having the monsters of creativity tattooed on my body will keep that close to me.


Please check out one of Jozi's poems over on BillyBlog here.

Jozi Tatham is currently a poetry MFA student at George Mason University in Virginia. She hails from Milwaukee, WI where she received her BA and the place which serves as "the inspiration for most of my being thus far." She has been published in newspapers and small publications in the Milwaukee area for poetry and nonfiction.

Thanks to Jozi for sharing with us here at Tattoosday!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Religious Tattoos

The idea of religious tattoos may seem counterintuitive, for several reasons – not only is tattooing prohibited by some religions, such as Orthodox Judaism, but until recently, tattoos were associated with a vaguely disreputable counterculture that seems at odds with religion.

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Religious Tattoos

However, religious symbols – Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islam or otherwise – are actually quite common tattoo designs. It might surprise you that about 25% of all tattoos in America have a religious meaning

Japanese Butterfly Tattoo

Japanese Butterfly Tattoo
Japanese Butterfly Tattoo
Japanese Butterfly Tattoo

The Tattooed Poets Project: Phebe Szatmari

Well I am back in New York and posting this a little later in the day than normal. The good news for those of you enjoying the Tattooed Poets Project is that we will spill over until Sunday, May 2, before resuming our normal activities.

In the mean time, enjoy this amazing tattoo from Phebe Szatmari:

Phebe writes:

Driftwood, for me, symbolizes the worn, the weathered, the old, the beautiful—each piece takes on its own character. My wife and I have a large piece from Richardson Lake in Maine that resembles a leaping elk. Its movement and energy are striking.

I was also inspired by artist Deborah Butterfield who is known for her sculptures of horses (initially created from driftwood before being cast in bronze).

When I found tattoo artist Jason Tyler Grace, I knew that he had the artistic ability to render a realistic image that would also work with the contours of my body. I decided to get my tattoo in order to initiate a new dialog with myself—and because tattoos are hot.
Be sure to check out one of Phebe's poems here.

Phebe Szatmari was working full-time in an office in Manhattan when she learned there was a shortage of poets. She immediately dropped everything and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton.

In her spare time, Phebe freelance edits, teaches writing, volunteers at LIGALY (Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Center), serves as a judge for teen poetry slams, and practices parkour. Her poems will be published in the forthcoming Writing Outside the Lines 2010 anthology.

Thanks to Phebe for sharing her lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Tiger Tribal Tattoo

Cool Tribal Tattoo ideas for Men

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Cool Tribal Tattoo ideas for Men

Angel Tattoo Designs Are Perfect Blend of Beauty And Significance

Popular Angel Tattoos
There are several types of angel tattoo designs that one can opt for as per their preference and choice. Moreover, a tattoo enthusiast can also go for a customized design to create a unique look. Following are some of the most common angel tattoo designs that are often sported by tattoo enthusiasts:
Cherub Angel Tattoo: It is the one of the most common and popular angel designs. The tattoo depicts a winged creature, usually seated on clouds with a trumpet or bow in hand. It is associated with cupid and is hence considered to be a messenger of love.
Guardian Angel tattoo: This tattoo is considered as a symbol of guardianship that ensures care and protection. People sporting a guardian angle tattoo often feel that they have a guardian angel with them all the time that will take care of them.

Apt Placement of Angel Tattoos

The placement for an angel tattoo varies from person to person. While in most cases men opt for upper arm, chest and shoulders, women go for abdomen. An extensive, full-sized angel tattoo is often done on the back that looks really attractive.

Though one can go for any part for the design, but there are some positions like wrists and foot that are usually not selected for an angel tattoo.

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Women Hibiscus Flower Tattoo Design


The Hibiscus is one of the few tropical flowers that are native to Hawaii. The yellow ma'o hau hele hibiscus is the state flower. There are a variety of colors to choose from: white, pink, red, lavender, green, blue, yellow, and orange. A hibiscus flower worn behind the ear of single Hawaiian women represents that she is ready to find a partner for marriage. The traditional meaning of the hibiscus is delicate beauty which could make a great Hawaiian flower tattoo.

Hawaiian flower tattoos

Hawaiian flower tattoos can be a great way to express your homage to the Hawaiian culture. Get familiar with Hawaiian flowers and what they can symbolize.