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The Different Categories of Tattoos

The Different Categories of Tattoos

* Animals

The most popular single category of tattoo designs are animals. These types of tattoos include everything from entire scenes of a wild jungle habitat to a single diminutive frog, from dolphins to doves, and alligators to zebras. All times people with an animal tattoo identify with the look or behavior of the animal, feeling that it represents a part of them. Other times their animal symbol is a reminder of a particular place ( penguins) or is simply a particularly cute ( pandas) or ferocious (pythons) type of creature.

* Insect

The butterfly tattoo is probably still the most popular tattoo among women. Add to that some ladybugs, some black widows, dragonflies, and bumblebees. It's a pretty fun bunch of designs.

* Zodiac

Two flavors of the zodiac can be had: the monthly variety of the West, running from Aquarius to Capricorn, or the early variety to the East, running from the Year of the Rat to the Year of the Dragon.

* Cartoons

After animal tattoo, this might be next biggest category. From the Tasmanian Devil or Calvin and Hobbes to anime cuties like Battle Angel Alita or Sailor Moon, cartoons are continuing favorite with tattooees.

* Death

Badass skulls and crossbones are everywhere but while that might be depressing to some, it is actually a reminder to live life while you can. The skull combined with books is seen as symbol for science and history.

* Love

The heart is the symbol used mostly to express love. Heart tattoo designs in many colors like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, as well as in black and white. Heart tattoos can be tattooed as armbands, lowerback, on ankles, shoulders, the upperback area, chest.

* Star

The most popular usually include the five pointed star with great shafts of light exuding from the tips. Stars represent the souls of loved ones that they have lost. Starfish represents life throughout the open sea, the star of David represents Judaism. The most commonly known symbol of the star is light. Stars often associated with dreams, hopes, and sources of inspiration.

* Floral

Millions of flowers everywhere - on the planet and in the dermis. Their enormous variety, their symbolism ( from the black rose to the yellow and every colour in between; with leaves or without; with thorns or not ), and their beauty all contribute to their popularity in tattoos. A single flower, a bouquet, or perhaps an armband or scroll make these designs a customizer's heaven.

* Patriotic

National flags and the colors of those flag figure largerly in these designs. But there is also the occasional Statue of Liberty, red maple leaf, or eagle killing a snake.

* Tribal

Tribal is a black graphic style of solid pointy curves that are generally abstract but inspired by ethnographic designs from Polynesia. It is a style that can be used in armbands, symmetric scrolls on the lower back.

* Portrait

Portrait tattoos aren't always memorial tattoos. Many of the famous people aren't dead yet. Nor are many of the celebrities whom you can see tattooed in the skins of their biggest fans. Dragon Tattoo picture

* Myth and Fantasy

From tiny fairies who perch on flower petals to fire-breathing dragons, the human imagination has produced an entire crop of symbolic images - completely imaginary. The Dragon is regarded as a benevolent protector of people, dispenser of life-giving water, and herald of fertility and good fortune.

* Blackwork

Plenty of people prefer not to have colour, sticking to blacks and grays. Part of your design choice will involve whether you want colour or not. Much indigenous Polynesian tattooing is done in black.

* Japanese

The Japanese group is both a category of tattoo symbols and style of tattooing. In Japan, a unique style and aesthetic has been developed and refined over the course of centuries. These tattoos encompass natural as well as mythic themes plus creatures, warriors, and gods, all within a uniquely stylized presentation. Japanese tradition tattoo usually covers large parts of the body like the back. However, Japanese youth who consider tattoos as "iki" prefer more to use partial tattoo on their upper arms, where it is not directly visible. The word "iki" means 'cool'.

* Lettering

From beautiful scripted names that look like they could have come from a wedding invitation to the bold Gothic lettering of gang names, some tattoos just tell it like it is. There is a straght-forward appeal in this perennially favorite type of tattoo. Names, dates, a Bible verse, and even a poem make their appearance here.

* New School

The colors of this style of tattooing are so intense and vibrant that it look like really good graffiti-bold and big. It can be applied to any type of symbol that you have like to have looking all punked up, blown up, and a bit twisted.

* Old School

Bold black outlines, classic tattoo themes, primary colors, and darker shading than contemporary designs typify this style of tattooing, which is currently undergoing a renaissance right along with nautical and retro designs. It is a style that can be applied to any type of symbol or image.

* Memorials

Memorial tattoos are the most bittersweet and intensely personal of the tattoo repertoire. Pets and people and life-changing events all get recorded in the skin to act as a constant reminder.

* Chinese

Another tattoo style whose popularity is on rise is the Chinese character that is used either to spell a Western name or capture a single thought is one ideogram ( "courage", "peace", "love" ). Chinese tattoo vary in many popular forms like Chinese Dragons, lions, tigers,and water tattoo. A popular place for these tattoos is on the neck.

* Christian

The religious theme is one that many people feel comfortable with and one which stands some chance of not changing during your life. Sailors used to have a cross tattooed on their backs, hoping that it would save them from a flogging.

* Buddhist

Buddhist symbols are a growing group of tattoos in the West that includes everything from portraits of the Dalai Lama himself to protective Sanskrit writings of Buddhist prayers.

* Celtic

These tattoo designs are very complicated, interwoven knot work that can be used to draw most anything that is ultrapicky and intricate.

* Hindu

The symbols of Hinduism - that is to say its gods - are gainging popularity in Western tattoo. The elephant god Ganesha, the beautiful and blue-faced Krishna, and the multiarmed dancing Shiva are wreaking their cosmic forces in ink.

* Pacific NorthWest

Astract whales and dolphins, beavers, bears, and other creatures of the Pasific Northwest cost are ppular tattoo choicse for people everywhere now.