Social Standards of Tattoos

There are two types of people in the world of tattoos: the first is those who get one or two somewhat small, well thought out (or maybe not so well thought out), tattoos for a couple reasons. And the second is those who get tattooed to fulfill a deeper meaning and often have several or more tattoos. Tattoos address an individual's personal experiences and will most likely tell us what's important to that individual.

The first group of people that get tattooed are those that want to fit in or feel accepted by a larger peer group such as friends, colleagues, and organizations that they are involved with. Another often more common reason for this group, is that these people get tattooed out of rebellion. This group often gets tattooed when they are adolescents because of the conflicts over identity and to show their control of their own bodies. Tattoos have to be seen before someone can get the idea to get one done and the current medias interest with tattoos strongly fuels this system. Celebrities tattoos are constantly being showcased in movies, magazines, TV shows, and all other forms of media which heavily influences adolescents decisions in getting one.

The second group of people are those who get tattooed because it means something very personal to them and helps them express their thoughts, beliefs, and ideals as well as commemorate a special memory or loved one. These people often have a larger number of tattoos and sometimes even choose to cover their whole bodies. This is obviously the more outrageous group that has a deeper understanding of what tattoos used to stand for and think less about the stigmas surrounding tattoos in our current times.

Tattoos have been around for thousands of years and have been put on everyone from prison gangs to aristocrats. Just like anything else, there are certain trends and cycles that tattoos go through. Nowadays, tattoos have become much more complex and include almost any piece of 2D art that you can find that can fit onto a part of the human body as well as a full range of tattoo lettering. In the last 10-15 years they have become much more widely accepted and people from all walks of life now sport tattoos.

Tom Araya Tattoos

Tom Araya is an amazingly talented Chilean musician known for being the bass player and vocalist of the thrash metal band, Slayer.

Tom Araya has many tattoos on his body, including two nearly complete sleeves, as well as several other designs on his upper arms and shoulders.

Some of the tattoos on his right arm include, a skull on his upper arm, along with two Kanji characters underneath. Plus many designs within his sleeve, including a star and bio-hazard symbol, plus a bracelet of sorts.

Contained within the sleeve on his left arm is the faces of three women, one of which resembles Jackie Onassis.

Tom also has a handful of other tattoos on his upper left arm and shoulder area, however they are rather difficult to identify clearly.

Bali Flower Tattoo Designs

Bali Flower Tattoo Designs

Cute Son Tattoo Designs

Cute Son Tattoo Designs

Fierce Dragon Tattoo Designs

Fire Devil Tattoo Designs

Rafael Araújo Tattoos

Rafael Araújo is a professinal Brazilian basketball player who has also spent some time in the NBA with the Toronto Raptors and Utah Jazz.

Rafael has quite a few tattoo designs, mainly on his arms and back.

On his left arm is a tattoo of a hand holding a basketball, along with 3 Kanji characters.

On his right arm is a large tattoo of a cartoon style shark with its tongue sticking out, along with a couple more larger Kanji characters, on his bicep and shoulder.

Rafael Araújo also has a rather large tribal style tattoo across the top of his back.

King Arthur Tattoo Designs

Nicole Appleton Tattoo

Nicole Appleton is a lovely and talented Canadian pop star, known for being a member of the hugely successful pop group "All Saints" and later "Appleton" with her sister Natalie Appleton.

Much like her sister, Nicole Appleton only has one tattoo design.

The tattoo is on the left side of her lower abdomen, and its of the Chinese symbol representing the "Year of the Tiger".

Natalie Appleton Tattoo

Natalie Appleton is a great Canadian pop singer, best known for being a member of the all girls pop group "All Saints" and later as part of the group "Appleton" with her little sister, Nicole Appleton.

Natalie has a single tattoo design on her body, located on her lower back and its of a small bow tie, along with two other unknown symbols.

Fiona Apple Tattoos

Fiona Apple is an extremely talented and creative American singer-songwriter, with a music style influenced by jazz, pop and alternative rock.

Fiona Apple has two tattoo designs which we know of and both are located on her lower back.

She has a tattoo of the letters "KIN" and "FHW" on the lower portion of her back (Not Pictured).

Arm 3D Spider Tattoo Design

Arm 3D Spider Tattoo Design

Pisces Tattoo-Show off Your Creative Flair

Persons born in 20th February to 20th March are more prone to having Pisces Tattoo. Youths having the Pisces Zodiac signs wear Pisces tattoo in legs, arms, chests, back portions, upper buttocks, and shoulders.

Pisces tattoo bearers are artistic, romantic, committed, loving, affectionate, understandable, and very much caring to get along in any relationship. The typical symbol for Pisces tattoo is fish and colors include purple, mauve, violet, aquamarine, and sea green.

The Pisces tattoo in the image is warm and cute – the fishes are set under the blue sea and are ligatured with one another in an intimate pose. All in all, it looks tidy and sensible.

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Kate gosselin ankle tattoo designs

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Rosary Ankle Tattoo-Devotional Adornment

Coming from the Latin word 'rosarium' that means garland of roses, Rosary ankle tattoo is worn by females around the world in belief of a timeless symbol of Catholicism.

The beads in Rosary ankle tattoo are arranged in such a way as to depict the different episodes in the life of Christ in the form of prayer and devotion. The cross portion of the Rosary ankle tattoo resting on the foot top shows a different dimension of beautification in the lap of religious mantra.

Other than that of its religious value, some tattoo enthusiasts wear Rosary ankle tattoo in memory of the loved one.

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Marc Anthony Tattoos

Marc Anthony is a Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and actor, but perhaps best known for his high profile marriage to the beautiful singer/actress Jennifer Lopez.

Marc Anthony has five tattoo designs on his body, some of which are difficult to see clearly.

He has a large cross on the lower portion of his right leg, just above his ankle. A tribal style tattoo of sorts on his right arm.

On the into part of his right wrist, is the name of his wife "Jennifer" Lopez.

Marc also has two small tattoos on his chest, but its not totally clear what they are, however one resembles a man with a cowboy hat.

Phil Anselmo Tattoos

Phil Anselmo is an American musician, perhaps best known for being the lead singer of the heavy metal band Pantera, he is also the front man for the group, Down, and owner of Housecore records.

Phil Anselmo has a smattering of tattoos on his body, mainly focused on his arms.

The tattoos on his left arm include, a skeleton, a plaque with the saying "Body and Blood, Joy and Pain, Life and Death". He also has a snake on the inner side of his forearm with a demon and flames on the outer side.

Some of the tattoos on his right arm include, a large zombie head, the devil and other ghoulish creatures on his upper right arm area.

Feast your eyes on the evil tattoos of rock star, Phil Anselmo.

Anouk Tattoos

Anouk is a tremendously successful Dutch singer, who has released seven hit pop-rock albums since 1997.

Anouk has two tattoo designs, one of which is a large sleeve from her shoulder to her forearm, containing several lovely colorful peony flowers.

She is also said to have a small crescent moon tattoo on her lower abdomen. (Not Pictured).

Flower Ankle Tattoo-Eye Candy and Soothing

Flower ankle tattoos grab attentions. It gives an intricate touch to one’s personality – when bare footed or only with flip flop, the flower ankle tattoos are revealed to eyes, winning big wows. The present yellow and orange hibiscus with leaves on foot gives a warm and caring effect.

Females throughout the world love to sport with flower ankle tattoos. The whole idea is to hypnotize the onlookers with invaluable beauties that are worth more than million bucks.

Only, one must take good care while tattooing since it is the boney part and does not have lot of flesh to cushion the pain. Post tattooing process is important as well.

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Nicole richie virgin tattoo design

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Chest Tattoo-Wide n’ Warm

Chest tattoo is the simple procession of the men and women of all walks. Unlike other body areas, chest gives a wide canvas to ink chest tattoo with wonderful forms like flowers, hearts, wings, butterflies, portraits, and different other interesting and intricate motifs.

Women especially use their breasts as a popular surface to flaunt with chest tattoo. Chest tattoos have another advantage – it can be hidden within the clothes the time you want.

The lady in this image has a nice chest tattoo that is partly visible-it is a line drawing with pigeons and heart sign in the middle.

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Kurt Angle Tattoo

Kurt Angle is the super popular American professional wrestler, part time actor and 1996 Olympic gold medalist.

Kurt Angle has a single tattoo design on his totally ripped body.

His tattoo is of a Golden Eagle wearing a singlet, and its located on the upper right portion of his back.

The Golden Eagle is the school mascot for Clarion University of Pennsylvania, for which Kurt Angle attended and graduated from.

Here we have a couple of blurry pictures of his tattoo.

Peter Andre Tattoos

Peter Andre is a great singer, songwriter and presenter who has been in show business for over two decades and going strong.

Peter Andre currently has five tattoos on his body, including the initials T, J and H, for his three children, located on his left shoulder along with an armband tattoo around his left bicep.

On his left bicep is a rather large tribal design of various hooks and curves.

He has the name of his ex wife "Katie" (price) tattooed on his left ring finger.

Peter Andre also has the biblical ten commandments on his lower back. (Not pictured)