Tattoo Gallery

Whether you’re looking at a tattoo gallery for your first tattoo because all your friends are getting one, you’re going on vacation and want something to remember your fun time forever, or you’re planning out your next large custom piece, your goal is the same: getting the perfect tattoo. To get the perfect tattoo from a tattoo gallery, essentially all you need to do is match the perfect tattoo design with the perfect tattoo artist–but it’s not really that simple.

Getting a tattoo is not something to be taken lightly, unless you have already done your homework and have a thorough knowledge of tattoos. While the mantra ‘tattoos last forever’ is a great thing to keep in mind when making your decision, it is not completely accurate: they only last until you move on to the next world, silly… or until you cover them up with new ones, or get them removed with laser surgery–but that’s a whole other article. Tattoos may be painful to get, but they are even more painful to remove. Suffice it to say, the decision you make now will affect you, in some way, for the rest of your life.

The ‘proper’ way to get the perfect tattoo is to do a few years of researching tattoos as well as the art world in general in order to develop a taste for artistic tattoos, before choosing a tattoo artist, not after. Visit some tattoo conventions, surf the Internet and check out many tattoo pictures and templates at tattoo galleries, email and talk with tattooed people you know, check out the landscape, and learn about it before jumping in.

So, the first rule to getting the perfect tattoo, like almost anything in life, is to be patient and really learn about this fantastic art form before taking action. In this information age of knowledge sharing, there is no reason to enter the world of tattoos without doing it the right way. Sure, most of us heavily tattooed people did not follow the advice being given in this article, but that’s because we were young and dumb. Now that we have learned all these lessons the hard way (and our dumbness is still debatable) and are sharing them with you, you don’t have any excuse for making bad tattoo decisions. If you end up on a website like badtattoos.com, or as the butt of your friends’ jokes, don’t say we didn’t try to warn you…

Dragon Tattoo Designs

Dragons have a fascination for modern day men and women; they are both reminders of a dark and frightening past, and a testament to human beings’ triumph over what they cannot understand. In many instances the dragon tattoos that we see today are appropriated from the Chinese culture which still has a living relationship with the dragon. You only have to attend one Chinese festival to realize how important the dragon is to the Chinese sense of who they are.

Time was when tattoos were associated with the Chinese mafia or with other forms of criminality. Now they have a much more widespread attraction and one that goes far beyond the borders of China itself. Today everyone seems to have fallen in love with the dragon and an increasing number of people are asking for dragon tattoos. The dragon is a symbol of mystery and legend it is a powerful symbol that has taken hold of hearts and minds in the East and the West. Thus the dragon is at the same time both symbolic of fear and worthy of worship. In the west dragons as fire breathing monsters has never been far from people’s imagination. Children are still deliciously scared by dragon pictures and dragon stories. In China, however, the dragon has come to symbolize eastern culture. In the east, the mythical beast is seen as intelligent and benevolent and Chinese people are known in many parts of the world as the descendants of the dragon.

In China, the dragon is depicted in a number of different forms and the might of the beast is depicted in the horned dragon. People will have this tattoo if they want to be seen as someone who is worthy of fear and respect. The celestial dragon is revered by many because it is believed that it protects the Gods and holds up the heavens. When people have these pictures of the dragon tattooed on their body they are often giving out a message about themselves rather than the dragon.

Dragons are often seen as defenders of home and treasure and some of these designs are amongst the most colorful tattoos there are. Sometimes men will have a dragon right across their backs or extending round and down their arm. In the Shrek series of movies the dragon almost loses its teeth as it becomes the friend of adults and children alike. How you think about dragons will most likely be affected by the way you choose to have it tattooed on your body. The tiny dragon at the bottom of a woman’s back may not make much impact – but a dragon that goes down and round the length of a man’s arm might be saying something completely different about this powerful and mythical beast.