Heart Tattoos For Girls
The focus of this article is on heart tattoos for girls. For information and advice about heart tattoo designs for men, please see the Heart Tattoos For Men page.
Heart tattoos are a very popular option for girls looking to ink a relatively small tattoo that pays homage to loved ones. Heart tattoos are very personal and hold deep significance to the women who choose to ink them. Heart tattoos come in a wide range of design styles, each with their own associated meanings, and offer girls many options for using different colour combinations. The relatively small size of heart tattoos also gives women a number of body location options when choosing a site to ink.
The classic heart tattoo is a simple heart inked in shades of red or purple. Simple hearts express an individual’s love and devotion to someone, usually a lover or family member. Classic heart designs are often accompanied by a light coloured ribbon running across the heart. Girls commonly tattoo the name of a loved one, such as a lover, child, or parent, on top of the ribbon.
In addition to the classic style of heart tattoos there exists an enormous variety of other designs that incorporate hearts with other iconography. Some of the most popular include broken hearts (representing lost love and failed relationships), hearts pierced by arrows (representing cupids arrow and falling in love), hearts stabbed by knives (depicting the painful side of love), hearts with wings (signifying freedom), hearts with flames (representing passion), as well as hearts accompanied by birds or flowers. Another popular heart tattoo design style, especially among Catholics, is the sacred heart.
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Heart tattoos tend to be fairly small, giving them the advantage of being suitable for inking on pretty much every body area. Choosing a site for a new tattoo is a huge decision, and I strongly recommend that you browse the Tattoo Body Areas section of this website for detailed information about each of the commonly tattooed areas of the body.
The most common colours used for inking heart tattoos are of course shades of red and purple. There is nothing to stop you from inking a heart in whatever colour you like though. Indeed, many members of the lesbian community ink rainbow coloured hearts. Most people however tend to go for the classic red heart, and incorporate more colour by adding other iconography to the design, as is described above. The wide range of colour options that heart tattoos provide, coupled with their relatively small size (and therefore flexibility in terms of body locations, and relatively cheap cost) makes heart tattoo designs great options for girls inking their first tattoos. Having said that, heart tattoos are also among the most frequently regretted of all tattoo designs. The reason for this is that many women ink the name of a lover or partner on a heart, only for the relationship to end further on down the road. For this reason I recommend only inking a heart and name tattoo if you are absolutely sure the love will last.
Good places to hunt for good quality heart tattoos include tattoo design books, tattoo parlour/shop collections, and online. I highly recommend using the internet to search for designs because you can browse designs from the comfort of home whenever you have a few minutes spare. There are however some traps that many people fall in to when using the internet to look for tattoo designs. The most common mistake that people make is limiting themselves to free designs found using the search engines image results pages. Free designs are often poor quality artwork, and designs near the top of the image search results will be incredibly common. It also takes an enormous amount of time to trawl through the image search results pages looking for half decent designs.
I strongly recommend that instead of using search engines, you consider joining some of the top online Tattoo Galleries. These galleries contain thousands upon thousands of the best quality tattoo artwork available anywhere, and will save you a huge amount of time as all of the designs can be accessed by logging in to the members area. The online gallery that we recommend for heart tattoos is the Tattoo Me Now online tattoo gallery. In addition to a huge design database, joining Tattoo Me Now also gives members access to a vast collection of first class tattoo related resources. For a full run down of the benefits of joining Tattoo Me Now, please read our in-depth Tattoo Me Now Review.
If you are new to tattooing and would like expert advice about how to go about planning a tattoo, please head over to the Tattoo Info section of this website.
