Shoulder Tattoo Designs For Men
This article focuses on shoulder tattoo designs for men. For shoulder tattoo ideas for females, please visit out Shoulder Tattoo Designs For Girls page.
The shoulder provides men considering a new tattoo with a suite of unique options. The shoulder is a huge canvas for tattooing, and is also connected to a large number of other body areas that are popular sites for tattooing. This means that shoulder tattoo designs can range from small single designs inked on one shoulder, to large complex designs that may extend over both shoulders and beyond. Shoulder tattoo designs can not only extend across both shoulders, but also further down the back, over the shoulder to the upper arm, or even up the neck.
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Shoulder tattoo designs are very easily hidden away when required. This is an important consideration for most people as many employers discriminate against visible tattoos when hiring staff. Away from work men will usually have to take off their shirt to show off their shoulder tattoo design. Going topless while on the beach or in the park during the summertime, or whilst working out at the gym is a great way to draw attention to your shoulder tattoo.
Shoulder tattoo designs are not especially painful to get inked, although it will be a bit more painful then tattooing a fleshier area of the body such as the bicep. The duration of pain is often at least as important as the intensity of the pain, and this will depend on the size and complexity of the design that you choose. Larger, more complex tattoo designs will take longer to ink, meaning that the associated pain will have to be endured for longer. The size and complexity of the tattoo also impacts upon the cost of getting a new shoulder tattoo. Other factors that influence the cost of a new tattoo include the colours used, as well as the reputation and experience level of your tattoo artist.
While the shoulder can accommodate almost any tattoo design, some of the most popular shoulder tattoo designs for men include tribal, cross, celtic, dragon, scorpion, tiger, and star designs. Tribal designs are incredibly popular owing to the ease with which they can be extended to other body areas to make a larger design. Another popular option not mentioned above is inking some writing, such as the name of a loved one, or a favourite phrase or quote. Writing can be tattooed in English in a stylish font, or translated and inked in a foreign writing style. For example, Asian scripts have become a very popular tattoo design in recent decades. Another striking shoulder tattoo design sometimes encountered is a pair of wings, often angel wings, inked across both shoulders.
The shoulder tattoo designs outlines above are only a small selection of some of the most popular designs available. For more shoulder tattoo design ideas and inspiration head over to the Tattoo Designs area of this website. I also strongly recommend that you consider joining some premium online tattoo galleries. Two premium galleries that I highly recommend are Chopper Tattoo and Tattoo Me Now. Both of these galleries contain thousands of top quality tattoo designs. You can browse through these galleries online and print out your favourite designs to show your tattoo artist. Far too many people make the mistake of only considering free designs that they found using a search engine. Not only does it take hours to trawl the internet for free designs, the tattoo designs that you will be looking at will tend to be of a poor quality. By only looking at low quality designs you run the risk of inking an inferior tattoo that you may come to dislike in a few years time. A tattoo is a lifetime commitment, and it really is worth investing a few extra dollars to get access to thousands of premium quality designs.
