Tattoo Placement

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The female body allows for a wealth of beautiful and tasteful tattoos, barring anything like that, this chart provides common placements and their most recognized names.

Like the female body, the male anatomy provides a plethora of opportunities for dramatic and meaningful tattoos. This chart is educational and easy to read.

Tattoo placement is the artistic discipline of locating areas of the human anatomy that are ideal for the placement of permanent displays of pigment-based pictures or textual slogans. The practitioners of this discipline must take into account several, often equally important, factors when selecting the site of "fresh ink".

The Criteria Used When Selecting a Tattoo Site

Size of Tattoo

Although commonly requested larger, the largest tattoo a person can get of a full body portrait of themselves is at actual size. This illustrates one of the largest issues facing tattoo placement artists today, when people's eyes are bigger than their stomachs (or biceps or what have you). The tattoo placement artist is the key person in ensuring that a tattoo will fit in a certain area before the tattoo is begun.

Other Tattoos in Proximity

Besides making sure that a tattoo will physically fit in an area, there is also the question of whether the new tattoo will be aesthetically pleasing when viewed as part of the whole. By keeping in mind the color schemes, available locations to fit the tattoo and the client's preference on visibility the talented tattoo placement artist will pick the best available location for the new "tat".

Visibility of Ink

One thing many tattoo aficionados fail to consider is that certain visible tattoos can have detrimental effects on social acceptance, martial bliss or their budding priesthood or military careers. Keeping offensive images and phrases from publicly visible skin patches can go a long way towards happy tattoo ownership.

Occasionally, the opposite is desired. In the case of skinheads, criminals, punk rock / gothic / metal musicians, creepy/dirty old men, the psychotic, social outcasts or other marginalized groups, the more offensive the image or saying, the more visible it should be. When working with these clients, the tattoo placement artist can often turn something merely crude and elevate it to exceedingly profane by choosing exactly the right display point for the ink.

Pain Tolerance of Customer

Much like the duality of the customers needs for ink visibility, pain tolerance is also a nuanced criteria. Some customers are unable to have even a small tattoo finished in a single session, while others get the very most sensitive areas of their bodies tattooed, simply for the experience. A good tattoo placement person will work diligently with their client to make the tattoo as painless or painful as possible, in accordance with the recipient's wishes.

Other Related Disciplines

Tattoo Selection is the most closely associated artistic discipline to tattoo placement. Tattoo selection and placement must both be considered before Tattooing can be performed responsibly.