Foot Tattoo Designs

Foot Tattoo Designs Tattoo art allows you to express your creativity to a full extent offering a great many of tattoo designs. At the same tome, you can place your tat wherever you like though shoulder and back tattoos are most commonly seen. But there’s also a possibility to ink your hands and feet.

For hands henna tattoos are most frequently chosen as they last 2 weeks and then disappear. It is unusual to wear permanent tattoos on hands while foot tattoos are worn by people for a long time and people are happy that they’ve chosen their feet as a place for their tats.

Foot tattoos are usually small and simple and due to this factor they are not pricy. But is you wish to extend your foot tattoo to your ankle and leg, be ready to pay a larger sum.

Foot Tattoo Designs

Both men and women can consider foot tattoos, but life shows that they are more spread among girls and women. A female foot adorned with a small neat tat looks definitely cool and exceptionally sexy both in flip-flops and high-heeled shoes.

Various designs can be applied to foot tattoos. It may be flower compositions, butterflies, rosaries, stars, fairies, and what more! The list can be easily continued. For instance, Celtic knots or tribal patterns will be great for foot tattoos. They will also suit men as they carry spirit of masculinity in them.

Foot Tattoo Designs

Be sure you know some facts about foot tattoos before you go to a tattoo salon. They are rather painful to get and require special aftercare. They are prone to blurring so be prepared to have them re-inked after some time. You should be very careful with a foot tattoo in its healing period as dirt can get into it and cause infection and inflammation.

The positive issue about foot tattoos is that they can be easily hidden when at work and in various situation when body art is not desirable.

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Skull Tattoo Designs - Death or Immortality?

Skull Tattoo Designs - Death or Immortality? Alongside with positive and sunny tattoos of flowers and butterflies there are such tattoos that arouse mixed feelings as their meaning is somehow connected with death, danger and fragility of human life.

Skull tattoo designs belong to this group, but with some restrictions. The thing is that a skull as a symbol has almost lost its power and its negative meaning due to its frequent usage in modern mass culture. Earlier the skull and crossbones was a typical pirate design and stood for death and poison and evoked fear immediately on seeing it.

Skull tattoo designs were also popular among gamblers whose life was usually covered by spirit of danger and extreme. They believed that skull tattoo could bring them luck. For gamblers it usually included a black cat or a dice.

Skull Tattoo Designs - Death or Immortality?

Skull and bones can symbolize not only death but immortality as they last longer than our bodies. Archeologists now find well-preserved skulls of people who lived many centuries ago. If you want to stress this symbolism of immortality you can add a snake to your skull tattoo. A shake that goes from an empty eye socket stands for a chthonic god of immortality, as well as knowledge. This symbolic depiction is well-known and tells us that knowledge remains after death.

However, a skull tattoo is a pretty frightening one if properly done and can intimidate people around. It can send a message like “you’d better stay away from me”.

The most common design for a skull tattoo is skull and crossbones. It may be combined with a candle or a rose or other death and pirate symbols, ribbons, daggers, etc. It can be colored or black and white and occupy any part of your body, with shoulders being most frequently chosen for this kind of tattoo. When choosing a place for your skull tattoo make sure that it can be hidden if wanted, at work, for instance.

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The World of Tribals - Maori Tattoo Patterns

The World of Tribals - Maori Tattoo Patterns Tribal tattoos on shoulders and backs of present-day people is a way the past penetrates the present. Nearly all ancient folks used tattoos to identify themselves or as a part of some ritual. Nowadays the tradition remains, moreover, we sometimes use the same patterns, but the purpose is different.

Maori is an ancient tribe that lived in Polynesia and New Zealand. They did a lot of tattooing and it was not mere adornment of their bodies, but a sacred art. While in modern tattoo salons everything is still and quiet, a tattoo session meant music, dancing and singing for Maori people. Tattoos were like a calendar on a human body, as Maoris marked the most important events of their life starting from initiation by getting a tattoo.

Wearing tattoos showed also status of people, as well as their belonging to a family, a clan and a tribe. It was very important as there was a great tribal diversity in New Zealand at that time and everybody wished to have its own sign. That’s why there were strict rules how to make tattoos.

So there were two common patterns of Maori tattoos: either pigmented lines or non-pigmented lines on a colored surface. The lines were usually curved and many of them formed spirals and repeated motifs as Maoris believed in the circular nature of the world.

The World of Tribals - Maori Tattoo Patterns

Mostly tattooed body parts were faces, buttocks and legs for men and lips and chin for women. Sometimes neck and back areas were tattooed. Maori tattoos were not only to be done according to general rules but also to repeat the “geography of the body,” so they were truly unique works of art.

There were no needles at that time, so Maori tattoos were done with knives and chisels made usually from albatross bone. Burnt wood or caterpillars were used as ink. Now, when Maori tattoos face revival, even that old equipment was brought back to life.

Maori-inspired tattoo designs form a significant part of tribal tattoos, black-and-white, mysterious and intricate.

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Kanji Tattoo Designs - Made in Japan

Kanji Tattoo Designs - Made in Japan On of the possibilities of tattoo lettering is adorning your body with symbols of exotic alphabets like Japanese or Chinese. They are of great attraction to western people as the unknown always draws public attention. Indeed, various tattoo letterings with hieroglyphs can make a perfect tattoo.

Kanji tattoo designs are basically Japanese ideograms, with one character representing a whole object or idea. This is the most essential difference of ideographic alphabets from English and the majority of the world languages where each letter stands for a sound and virtually means nothing when used alone.

Kanji ideograms make only a part of Japanese writing system alongside with the katakana and hiragana “alphabets.” Katakana is the most familiar to westerners while kanji is the oldest among them and originated in 4 century AD when the Japanese borrowed pictograms from the Chinese and reconfigured them.

Kanji tattoo patterns are numerous; about 3500 characters are known to a well-educated Japanese person. The only thing you should remember is that you should know for sure what this or that symbol means, so consult special sites dealing with interpreting of kanji symbols before you get a tattoo.

The symbols are also read, they stand for syllables, so you can render your name in kanji. For name Melissa, for instance, you’ll need three symbols, one for each syllable. Moreover, as kanji symbols have several meanings as a rule, one and the same symbol can convey very different meanings. This gives you a possibility to choose that ones that are closer to your preferences and worldview. The combination of them will have a unique meaning, so you not simply write your name in kanji but also supply it with a concept.

Kanji tattoo designs are not all about names. Symbols may be depicted in connection with some picture, or just alone to represent what they are designed to. There are also haiku tattoos done in kanji symbols. A haiku is a poem from several lines that captures the moment as it is and implies some philosophical thought.

Many people who resort to kanji tattoos choose them just for their appealing nature. It’s an interesting fact but actually Japanese, as well as Chinese, see nothing special in this tattoo style and it’s almost unknown in Japan.

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