Here is a stunning Flower Tattoo on a woman’s back. The flowers are rich and colored deeply, and have an old world charm to them.

Extra bonus marks for the off-centred position. The flower tattoo is draping off the shoulder gently, so it really grabs your attention.

This is a bold and adventurous tattoo pattern.

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What you need is special printable tattoo paper. This special INKJET/LASER PRINTER TATTOO PAPER allows you to design your own tattoo, and print it out onto paper using your home computer.

Here are two different varieties for sale from these Ebay boutiques. Click below to see the different pages. View and bid or View takes you to the Ebay store.

There are 2 different styles of paper, and they come in 5 or 10 page packs. Get the 10 pack and save on shipping. You can try more tattoos that way. Make a tattoo for your friends.

The tattoo paper a kit. You get Full Sizes Sheets (8 1/2″ x 11″) of Premium Quality
Tattoo Printer Paper and also sheets of the Adhesive Liner.

You need Both Sheets to make your tattoos.

I think the paper suits small Tattoo Designs better. One of the stores says “Quantity Depends on the Size of Each Tattoo.”

Real tattoos are permanent, so this is a great way to make sure you won’t regret your tattoo.

With these special tattoo papers, you can print out a design, some clip art, or create any tattoo you want and easily remove it anytime you want! You can try all kinds of designs. Scan your own artwork.

This Premium Tattoo Paper is specially designed to create your own
personal temporary body art with an inkjet or laser printer.

The best part is the guarantee. These 2 Ebay sellers come with all the regular Ebay guarantees, which is very cool. Check out their high ratings.

You can buy your temporary tattoo paper and get cracking making your printable fake tattoos.

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Here is a quick tattoo finder primer for you - helping you to choose from all the available patterns.

Tribal tattoo patterns

These were specific to the tribe. Tribal designs have staying power because they are designs that have been used for centuries. Tribal design tattoos are artistic and include bold striking patterns.

Tribal tattoos are usually monotone, that means one colour only although there has been a trend recently to use more than one colour.

Tribal tattoos are specific to the tribe. It was an identifier. The designs in tattoos that we typically call tribal are from Polynesian tribes.

Celtic Tattoos

These can be considered tribal tattoos of the celtic people. The celts used many design elements over and over, like knots, chains or circles to symbolise eternity.

Kanji Tattoos

Kanji tattoos are ideographic characters, usually japanese or chinese. The character means one thing -it is representative of a whole word or idea, like respect or honour. Beware of bad translation that doesn’t read well by native speakers.

If you would like to get your own Chinese Tattoo, the Chinese Tattoo Designs web site is the one for you and will prevent you from getting a backwards or upside down tattoo.

Realistic designs or photo realistic designs

These are harder to do as instead of just solid blocks of colour they use gradations of colour. The lined feather, blend or bleed away to nothing, and it is more like painting than colouring in. Definite artistic talent needed here as well as experience with the tool.

Classic Tattoos or Old School Tattoos

Are the western world classic tattoos we grew up with. Mostly seen on sailors so there are many sailing themed tattoos.

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Here is another exceptionally styled Tribal Shoulder Tattoo. Shoulder tattoos are very prominent, and Tribal Tattoo designs work well here because they are abstract and can fit over the shape of your shoulder really setting off its form.

Tribal tattoos are also nice because these are really old tattoo patterns that have withstood the test of time. They are usually very strongly designed. Not lightweight, but using bold strong lines and fills.  Most are usually one colour, with solid black being the most common.

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Here is a great Poppy Tattoo in a wonderful unusual spot - the inner elbow.

I love the classic style old world styling of this poppy tattoo design. It has a bygone era feel to it that seems timeless. I have these kinds of drawings on tablecloths from the 30s.

Placed on the inner elbow this tattoo is very feminine - strong yet elegant. Yet the tattoo is definitely not sucky. The powerful design of the poppy tattoo is striking - it’s not your everyday tattoo design, it’s not your every day “I’m a princess” design, and is not your everyday flower either - it is definitely fitting a woman with a lot of style and character.

Thank to Anna below in the comments who told me it was a poppy. I thought it was a wild rose. But since I found it was a poppy I love this tattoo design even more. I mean, how unusual, striking and dramatic. You should know by now my tastes in tattoos don’t run to the mainstream, and I love the boldness of striking tattoo design.

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Koi Dragon Arm Sleeve with beautiful colours.

Dragons are popular in the orient. They are a symbol of  wisdom and longevity. The koi carp is a symbol of perseverance and courage. That is why koi and dragons make very popular tattoo subjects.

I love the beautiful colours on this tattoo. The details and shading on this arm sleeve tattoo are wonderful.

There’s nothing worse than rushing your tattoo choice. Take your time when choosing your tattoo - remember, you are going to have to love it the rest of your life.

Koi Dragon Arm Sleeve photo credit: Shinobi32768

What’s better than a star design tattoo? Many star design tattoos. And all of them large and tattooed on your upper back.

We love this woman’s bold take on 3 five pointed stars - each star is similar, and yet, a little different too. One start tattoo is filled in with black, while another is red. The third tattoo is using outlines only. Same but different. I like that. That’s smart design.

Stars are a ubiquitous symbol. Stars are heavenly bodies - universal - something divine from heaven above. above. Star are simple, yet strong.

The star symbolizes achievement, honor, and hope. It is a  widely used military symbol and nearly all armies use the five pointed star without crossing lines to symbolize military  rank and power.

The five pointed star without crossing lines is used in the flags of 35 countries. Its first appearance on a national flag is believed to have been in 1777, when the United States of America used it on its flag design.

Hopefully this will help you shake up your star design tattoos.

More star symbolism here.

Test drive your tattoo design! Downloading and printing from online tattoo galleries that offer unlimited downloads really helps you choose tattoos.…by giving you the time to choose tattoos at home at your leisure.

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Here’s a great looking deliberately naive tattoo. Sorry not the best tattoo picture, but I am talking about the tattoo design. Problem is you have to be a really good artist to achieve this.

There’s lots of talk as of late about designing your own tattoo. As usual there are pros and cons to this.

A pro about about designing your own tattoo is that you will be assured of having a very unique tattoo design and it will be meaningful to you.

A con is that your tattoo design might be poorly designed.

Sorry for the harsh words but this comes from years of being a a freelance artist and watching the behavior of clients. Design is the first place that a client will want to haggle the price. Why? Because it is a not a set cost of production so they will try to weasel out of it. You can’t cut manufacturing costs or the cost of tools, but you can decide not to buy a service.

This becomes even more problematic because secretly everyone thinks that they can draw. We are all fashion design or graphic design wannabes - our houses are the most stylish, our clothing is the bomb, our business cards are impeccable too.

Now this may be true that deep inside we are all artists and stylish, but the truth is that these talents may be not up to speed. It takes some knowledge of graphic design and skill to be good at design.

If you aren’t familiar with the principles of design, then your tattoo might come out looking very amateurish. You might not be willing to see it - but others will see it as being very low quality.

Another con is that you just might not know enough about the difficulties of tattoo design. This is where skill counts.  A tattoo artist has to consider many things when designing a tattoo - there’s the color, the shape, size. Will it fit the location?

If you are not bothered with the chance of ending up with an amateurish looking tattoo design in order to save a few bucks, then sure, go ahead. Perhaps a deliberately “naive art style”  is the look you are going for. They can be very appealing if done correctly. See above.

But really - a tattoo is something permanent. Why skimp on that? Some tattoos cost mere dollars to buy online. Other galleries have a monthly fee that costs as much as a movie. Surely you can splurge that in something as important a tattoo - an expression of your self.

If you really want to have a unique tattoo design, an easy thing to do is take sections of existing tattoo designs and mash  them together.

Another suggestion is to co-draw with a real tattoo artist. Take your drawing to a pro and have them perfect it up.

Make sure to get a tattoo artist with strong drawing  skills and who knows how the design will play out as a tattoo. Then you can still have a truly original design that you designed, but one that is attractive, properly crafted and not poorly executed. One that won’t make you - or others - cringe.

Most tattoo memberships aren’t that expensive - costing the equivalent of a night at the movies for two. That’s not a lot to give up for unlimited professional  tattoo designs.

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That’s one way to make your tattoos more unique - take one idea and turn it upside down.

We love the colour on this side. The vivid orange really makes the tattoo stick out.

Side tattoos are a super sexy tattoo location. But as per all tattoos, make sure you do your research about this location and get an experienced tattoo artist.

Remember, tattoos are for life. That’s why a lifetime memberships with a Tattoo gallery is a great idea - there’s no rushing when it comes to choosing your tattoo. And you have thousands of designs at your fingertips - for life.

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Have a message to tell the world? Declare it to the world with a stomach tattoo.

This stomach tatoo has an important message to share - “emancipate yourself from mental slavery.” Its a Bob Marley Lyric.

I think it would be funny for your stomach tattoo to say ” Emancipate yourself from pants.”

Still, if your forte is not comedy, a beautiful quote written across your stomach makes a really cool tattoo design.

There are lots of sites on the Internet that have gathered famous quotes and put them up for you to search through. Or, you can search for the lyrics of your favourite song on the web, and put the line up that resonates most with you.

A favourite line from a movie or poem or book?

You can also put up a quote in another language. Or better, use an alphabet from another language. How about that - a mysterious stomach tattoo.

This Chinese Tattoo Designs web site is for you. They will they translate any phrase you want into Chinese and also design the tattoo character.

Just make sure your tattoo artist doesn’t tattoo it backwards or upside down. Read this - “Vital Mistakes Of Chinese Tattoos & How To Avoid Them.

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