Tattoo Designs & Ideas For Creating Your Own Personal Tattoos

Getting a tattoo is something that you must think long and hard about, since it's something that's likely to stay on you until you leave this world. It's therefore vitally important that you get a tattoo design that you not only *love* but you are also proud of.

In essence, you need to get a perfect tattoo design to ensure you don't have any regrets later on... and finding the "perfect tattoo design" isn't actually as hard as you think. It just takes a bit of common sense and some creativity!

It's where so many people go wrong in getting a tattoo - by either following a trend or just copying someone else's idea. Tattoos are personal pieces of art which should mean something to you and so only you can find your perfect tattoo design. It's a simple idea that so many people get wrong, and regret later on in life when their "cool" tattoo starts to wrinkle and fade.

If anyone asks us about ideas for tattoo designs, then we ALWAYS guide them through this process to ensure that they learn about the common sense process for finding the perfect tattoo design:

1. "Why?"

Ask yourself why you want the tattoo. You should be getting a tattoo for reasons personal to you. This may be the passing of a relative, or the birth of a new baby. It could be anything from an important part of your life through to an achievement of somesort. 

This will ensure you get the right tattoo for the occassion. For example, there's no point getting a superman crest for the passing of both your grandparents and so on. If you want to get a tattoo because you think it's "cool" or a reason like that, you must really question whether you will likely like the tattoo in years to come IF you got it.

2. "What?"

Once you've got the reason behind the tattoo sorted, you must then think of what type of tattoo you would like that would fit in with the message. This is normally decided by asking other people or by looking at what other people have had as tattoos on the likes of Flickr. By seeing other what other people have done, you can normally get some pretty neat ideas of your own.

We always recommend this tattoo gallery which gives you access to thousands of award winning tattoo designs for just $19.99. The price of the service is well worth it to ensure you get a tattoo design which you WILL love for years to come.

Once you've got around 3-5 solid ideas for tattoo designs, you then need to think about customising those designs. This is done with the help of a tattoo artist, however to ensure you get exactly what you want - it always helps to find examples of what you want doing to the tattoo designs that you have found.

For example, you might want a Spiderman Tattoo but in yellow and red or something. To make sure your tattoo artist knows what you're talking about for sure, then you need to get some examples for them :-)

3. "Where?"

After getting your tattoo designs all rounded up and polished off, you need to find a tattoo artist to perform any adjustments to the design AND to actually ink the tattoo for you. To do this, you will need to use our recommended tattoo gallery again. In the membership area, it includes a large database of tattoo parlors and how good they are, etc. This will be crucial in your quest for the perfect tattoo design because NOTHING will happen unless you get a good artist.

Once you've found some local tattoo parlors, then it's time to start asking around on Tattoo Forums and local people about how good the tattoo parlors you have found really are. 

4. "When?"

Once you've got a decent tattoo artist and tattoo parlor sorted, it's time to head to that tattoo parlor and organise some appointments to discuss what tattoo designs you want, etc. We really can't tell you what to say here - it's just a case of turning up one day and explaining how you want a tattoo and have found some tattoo designs and need them modifying, etc.

Your new artist should then give you some guidance on whether the tattoo design will look good or not so good and whether it's a "worthwhile" tattoo... I.E it won't look bad.