Choosing The Design of Your Tattoo

Choosing The Design of Your Tattoo

The most common known mistake that people make when getting a tattoo is tattooing on the name of their main squeeze. Some people go ahead and have this type of tattoo just the same, but imagine how you will feel when you break up and there in bold color, every day, you look at their name? Doesn’t sound so good, does it? Better to opt for temporary ink when it comes to tattooing on their lovely name!

The most important thing to keep in mind here is that your tattoo will be permanent. Now I am sure you realize this already but just think of it for a minute. Twenty-five years from now are you still going to be glad you got that particular tattoo? And, something you might see as being cool today, you might hate down the road a bit. So, think about all that before you go and get permanently inked. Opt for a design that will have lasting meaning for you and leave the rest to those that don’t know any better.

Take some time when selecting a tattoo. Studios will have plenty of books that you can go through. Look for a tattoo that says something about you or what you stand for. These are the best kinds and the ones that stay on the longest. Look for a good design online. Just Google in “tattoos” and watch and wait as thousands of good tattoo web pages come up. If you find one online and can print it out, bring it to your tattoo artist and ask if you can have that design.

Tattoos fit into two categories:
1) Flash or Stock
2) Custom

You will often find good examples of flash tattoos, scattered throughout the artist’s walls. They might be standard old favorites like anchors, hearts, skulls, and dragons to the artist’s custom designs that he or she will often do for a flat rate. Custom tattoos are designed or requested by you, and then negotiated with the tattoo artist. You can draw your own tattoo, have a friend draw it, or tell the artist what you want and get him or her to draw it for you. The artist will have to do some work with it anyway, to create an outline, and when he or she is finished adapting your drawing or idea you should check and make sure it is what you wanted. If it is not what you want, exactly, you go back to the drawing board and start again.

There are so many different styles of tattoos, and Michelle Delio has written an excellent article on this subject (which you can find at www.bme.freeq.com/tattoo/getagood.html ), describes the following styles for you: Black and Gray, Traditional, Fineline, Tribal, Realistic, Custom, and Oriental.