Tribal Tattoos For Girls
The focus of this page is tribal tattoos for girls. If you are looking for tribal tattoo ideas and information for men, please visit the Tribal Tattoos For Men page.
While tribal tattoos have historically been more popular among men, the past few decades has seen a massive growth in the popularity of tribal tattoo styles among women. This rise in popularity is due to a number of factors that include the striking abstract look of tribal tattoos, as well as the flexibility in size and placement on the body that they offer. They are also unique in that the iconography incorporated into traditional tribal tattoo designs has deep cultural significance to the tribes where the designs originated.
Tattooing has a long history among tribal societies all over the world. Of particular significance to the most popular tribal tattoo designs around today are the design styles of numerous Polynesian island societies throughout the Pacific (e.g. Samoan, Fijian, Hawaiian, and French Polynesian tribes, as well as the New Zealand Maori), the Dayak tribes in Borneo, as well as the indigenous societies of North and South America. Each tribe has their own unique design style and associated iconography, although there is often some cross over between tribes who live, or lived, in close proximity to one another.
Traditional tribal tattoos often depict animals and other elements of nature that are particularly relevant to individual tribes. This iconography almost always has spiritual and social significance, including the depiction of perceived gods, symbols of social roles and status, as well as symbols of luck and good fortune. Tribal tattoos therefore give girls the unique opportunity to ink a tattoo that not only looks amazing, but also has real meaning and significance.
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The options for inking tribal tattoos are almost limitless. Tribal designs can be large or small, and can be sited pretty much anywhere on the body. Smaller, more subtle designs, often inked on the lower back and ankle, tend to be popular among the majority of girls, although this is a gross generalisation. Indeed, many women opt for larger tribal tattoos, including sleeve and half sleeve designs, as well as designs that cover a large area of the back. Remember that large designs tend to be more expensive (see Tattoo Costs for more information about the cost of tattoos), although I always recommend saving up to get the tattoo that you really want rather than compromising too much on the size and complexity of the design. For more information about the individual attributes of all the commonly tattooed body areas, please browse the Tattoo Body Areas section of this website.
Another great characteristic of tribal tattoos is that they are relatively straightforward to extend at a later date, should you want your design to cover a larger area, incorporate more iconography, or even spread to another body area. This can be a good option for girls who want to start with a small design and build on it gradually. While it is pretty easy to extend a tribal design without forward planning when inking the initial design, extensions that were planned from the beginning often come out looking better.
Tribal tattoos are nearly always inked in black, with very limited use of other colours, and designs are often bold. This means that they tend to be more difficult to remove than other tattoos. For this reason I recommend taking extra care and time when selecting tribal tattoo designs. Good places to look for tribal tattoo designs and iconography are in tattoo design books, tribal art books, as well as in the tattoo collections kept by tattoo shops.
While the above methods of finding tribal tattoos work well, by far my favourite method is to use the internet. I particularly like this method because you can really take your time to browse through the designs at your own pace from the comfort of home. I don’t recommend spending time searching for fee designs using a search engine however. Free designs tend to be poor quality in terms of artwork, and are also very common. Searching through free designs using a search engine also wastes a lot of time. Instead, I recommend using one of the top online tattoo galleries to search for designs. For tribal tattoos, I highly recommend the Chopper Tattoo online tattoo design gallery. Chopper Tattoo has around 4000 designs in its regularly updated tattoo design gallery, and the fact that all of the designs are top quality pieces of artwork and are all available in one place means that you don’t have to waste lots of time scouring the internet looking at poor quality designs. For a detailed review of the Chopper Tattoo design gallery, please visit the Chopper Tattoo Review page.
I can’t stress enough the importance of taking your time when choosing tribal tattoo designs. Tattoos are permanent, and so it really is worth thinking long and hard about the tattoo that you really want. A popular option for girls wanting a unique tribal tattoo is to take several tribal designs to a tattoo artist and talk to them about making you a custom tattoo. This will allow you to incorporate multiple pieces of iconography into one coherent design. Bear in mind that getting a custom tattoo designed for you will add to the overall cost of your tattoo.
If you are fairly new to the fascinating world of tattoos, I suggest that you head over to the Tattoo Info section of this website. The Tattoo Info section contains information advice about the whole process of getting a tattoo, including choosing a design and body area, choosing a tattoo artist and parlour, as well as safety considerations, and much, much, more.
