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Tattoo designs - WXYZ >> Wrist Tattoos

Wrist Tattoo Designs - Before considering the best body part locations for your tattoo design, we should ask ourselves if the wrist is actually the best location for a tattoo. Especially for tattoos for girls, with whom the wrist is a favored spot. As usual, it depends. Among other things, it depends on how brave you are, and how slender your arms and hands are. Remember this - the tattoo is going to draw attention to whatever part of the body it's on. If showing your wrists to the world causes you no anxiety or grief, then you're secure enough in yourself to go ahead and do it. Consider also that the wrist isn't always the easiest body part to keep concealed. Since many of us 'speak with our hands', the wrist is often in others' faces. If your workplace isn't tattoo-friendly, even long-sleeved shirts may occasionally betray the location of your tattoo. Generally speaking, wrist tattoos are more favored by women, while men prefer their designs more prominently displayed on their forearms. For women and girls, a wrist tattoo is often used as a form of permanent decoration, functioning like a bracelet.

A bracelet design encircles the wrist and acts like a piece of permanent jewellery. Any interlocking motif can be effective, from a rosary to Celtic knots to barbed wire. Text tattoos are an intriguing option, especially if designed in a foreign script like Japanese kanji. Gillian Anderson has 'every day' written in Sanskrit adorning the inside of her right wrist. Lindsay Lohan has 'breathe' tattooed on her wrist. All nine cast members of the "The Fellowship of the Ring" have been inked with the same tattoo design, many choosing their wrist as the spot for the tattoo. In the Elvish script invented by the story's author J.R.R. Tolkien, it says 'nine'.

You might think that tattoos for girls would be restricted to painless parts of the body, but wrist tattoos prove that isn't the case. With little subcutaneous tissue to cushion the impact of the tattoo needles, wrist tattoos can be relatively painful, especially on the inner wrist. Tattoos that require a lot of black shading, such as tribal or complicated Celtic knots, will also be a more painful experience. The fingers may in fact get numb during the tattooing process. Advice -- occasionally flex the digits to encourage blood flow to the finger tips. But don't move when your artist is tattooing you! Know also that wrist tattoos - being such busy parts of the body - may take longer to heal.

Take note that the closer the needles get to the hand, the more painful it will be. And any part of the tattoo that crosses the wrist's crease line is eventually going to be distorted due to the hand's frequent motion.

See also: Lower back tattoos, Tattoos for Girls Index, Breast Tattoos, Top 10 Body Parts for Tattoos, Ankle Tattoos

Tattoo designs - WXYZ >> Wrist Tattoos

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