Shoulder Tattoos
Shoulder tattoos are a very popular choice for both men and women looking to get a new tattoo. The shoulder provides one of the best canvases available on the human body, and can accommodate just about any design style and size imaginable. While the majority of shoulder tattoos are small to medium sized and sited on one shoulder, some people opt for far larger designs. These larger designs can spread across both shoulders, down the back, over the shoulder to the upper arm, or even up the back of the neck. The options provided by shoulder tattoos are therefore limited only by your imagination.
A huge advantage of choosing to get a shoulder tattoo is how easy they are to hide. Wearing a shirt will completely conceal any tattoos inked on either shoulder. This is an important advantage given that many employers frown upon highly visible tattoos. Away from work or other formal situations, girls can show off their shoulder tattoo by wearing a bikini top, whereas men will have to take their shirts off to show off their shoulder tattoos.
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Shoulder tattoos are only moderately painful to get inked in comparison to other parts of the body. Larger designs will take longer to ink, meaning that the associated pain will have to be endured for longer. Larger designs will also be more expensive, although other factors such as the complexity of the tattoo design, the colour scheme of the design, as well as the reputation of your tattoo artist, will affect the final cost of getting a shoulder tattoo.
Some of the most popular shoulder tattoos for men include tribal, celtic, dragon, cross, scorpion, tiger, and star designs. For girls, some of the most popular shoulder tattoo design styles include star, flower, heart, butterfly, bird, celtic, dolphin and tribal designs. Another popular option for both men and women is to ink the name of a loved one, a favourite phrase, or some other text. Writing can be tattooed either in English in an attractive font, or can be translated and inked in a foreign script. Asian scripts are particularly popular. Another design that is sometimes seen is a pair of angel wings tattooed across both shoulders.
The above are just a small selection of the most popular shoulder tattoo designs. The shoulder is a highly versatile area of the body that can accommodate virtually any design that you can imagine. I recommend browsing the Tattoo Designs section of this website for further design ideas for your shoulder tattoo. I also strongly recommend that you join some premium online tattoo galleries. Two premium galleries that I highly recommend are the Chopper Tattoo and Tattoo Me Now tattoo galleries. Both of these galleries contain thousands of top quality tattoo designs. A common mistake made by a lot of people searching for a tattoo design is to only look at free designs found using a search engine. This method will waste hours of your time, and you will usually only encounter poor quality designs for free. A much better method is to spend a few extra dollars to join some premium tattoo design galleries. The tattoo that you ink will be on your body forever, so it really is worth browsing through as many top quality designs as possible before deciding which design to ink.
