How to choose the suitable design for the tattoo

The tattoo design choice process can be rather tricky. Usually you begin with choosing the nearby tattoo shop that is capable to do the right thing for you and ask for this kind of help. Choose with care to get the best tattoo artist you can for your money. You soon come to an understanding that whatever you choose will follow you everywhere for a very long time. You can make it invisible to others by putting on clothes covering it, but you will always know that it is there.

So you have to choose something you won’t be ashamed of after some time passes.

Coming to tattoo shop for help

When you come to a tattoo shop for the first time you have to look how many tattoo designs they have to offer you. Usually it is well seen from the entrance, because the walls may be covered with designs that shop offers, some kind of posters and so on. You become overwhelmed with designs very soon and may feel that you don’t understand what is suitable for you anymore. If it is so with you, you have several choices. First one is to go away and try to re-evaluate what you really need, get some advices from your friends or relatives. Also you can ask help from the shop’s artist.

Tips for choosing a great tattoo design

Tattoos have rather long history, even ancient, to be precise. Many of them contain hidden meaning even today. It’s always very good to choose tattoo according to its meaning. Also you can make a tattoo that will remind you about some very memorable event or even person – it is a good idea too.

When the re-evaluation in your mind is over, you can come back to the tattoo shop and look at the offered designs once again to see if something appeals to you more. Choose among different designs that you think will suit you better and try to learn more information about them – find out their meaning and evaluate once again if they are good for you. If you succeed and choose one tattoo – it will be the best for you for sure.

What to choose for girls
If you are a girl, you may like some butterfly-style tattoos - they are very popular currently. Mind that they have a very entertaining history. Butterflies were always considered as the attempt of human being to go from the low to high realm of existence – similar to the path of a butterfly in life. Even the smallest butterfly tattoo can say more about you than hundred tales.
Girls also usually like tattoos, representing some kind of flowers, or other floral kinds. In Japan, for example, cherry blossom is extremely popular – it can be used to ornament other tattoo or as a single tattoo.

Roses are very popular as well, but there are designs that are even more popular – peonies. They speak about prosperity and luck, in the East, again. Even some active males choose peonies tattoo sometimes, because it usually depicts their risk-taking nature and love for gambling.

Also, as we have said earlier, there is always the rose to choose from the designs. Probably the most popular, it is applied to show beauty. It is well known in western world. If you decide to put rose with thorns, it will say a lot about you, some kind of double message. The color of the rose that you choose is important as well. If you choose red rose, you show that you are a passionate person, if you apply white rose, it can underline your purity. Yellow roses show that you are a very friendly person. To show your rebellious nature you even can apply black rose.

There always are animals – from a bulldog to a frog, or a dragon. It is good, if you like a certain kind of animal, to apply tattoo with it. Usually it can say a lot about your character as well.

For those who are independent, powerful and sleek, the panther design suits the best. If you feel like you are free and wild, you can place the picture of mustang on your skin. You may choose whatever you like, be smart as a fox, shy as a deer and so on. Actually you can send any message about you with your animal tattoo. Some persons, who are not short of money and think they possess a lot of different traits, choose several tattoos to depict their character better. If you are religious person, tattoo shop will have to offer to you something as well – Christian crosses, Celtic Crosses, fertility symbols, Praying Hands, Rock of Ages. Images of Jesus and a lot more. If you are a superstitious person and go in for astrology, you may choose to apply the tattoo with your Zodiac sign. Also some people like to get some Tarot card on them, especially if they believe in these kind of things. Usually any tattoo shop has an opportunity to provide your skin with any Tarot card you need – and they are twenty-six in total. You may choose several cards that you like the most and will give you the outcome you need.

Some conclusions

So the main thing you must care about when choosing the suitable design, is to understand clearly what you want to say with this tattoo, to make sure that it depicts your traits of character, or brings you any luck, love, wisdom or anything else you want. When you apply a tattoo you usually seek an artist in yourself and depict it in a piece of art in your skin. That’s why it is important to have a freedom of choice, free your imagination and let it drive you where you need to be. Only then you will be able to get the tattoo that will say everything correct about you and too you. So try to think wise and make sure that you get a right choice, because your tattoo is going to be with you always. Good luck with your brand new tattoos!