How to Design a Temporary Tattoo

How to Design a Temporary Tattoo

Article by Mia Cusack

Immortalise your designs… at least for five days!

Tattoos can either be very hot… or very not! Sometimes the same tattoo is seen at both ends of the spectrum by different people. Temporary tattoo design is definitely an art unto itself – more detailed and intricate than logo design, but far less intricate than designing a real tattoo, which is usually far larger. Whether you are looking to promote a business, get a public service message out there, get publicity for a sporting event or build buzz around a topic, a nicely designed temporary tattoo is a fabulous platform. Today we check out how to design a temporary tattoo for your message that sits firmly at the ‘hot’ end of the spectrum!

Decide on your strategy

Your design for a temporary tattoo should aim to ‘do’ something… for the people wearing it, as well as for your company! Think about which of the following temporary tattoo aims will work well with your current branding:

* Being decorative* Being humorous* Helping the wearer express themselves

Think beyond clipart

Printing technology and techniques is now light years ahead of where it was 20 years ago, when temporary tattoos were just starting to become available. Now it is possible to get photographic quality, high resolution temporary tattoos that will stay looking great for up to 6 days.

Try not to have photographs dominating your design, it will be difficult to make sense of once on skin. However, you should certainly not limit yourself to the clipart-style temporary tattoos that are available off-the-shelf, if you’re taking the trouble to design your own. Your temporary tattoo should be identifiable from a couple of metres away, to provide an ideal level of branding.

Pop your logo in

While I wouldn’t recommend making your logo the focus of your temporary tattoo design, you will want to include it. Logos are especially important for branding on kids tattoos – most kids can recognize the golden arches of McDonalds for several years before they can read, and the same is possible for your logo!

Once you have a basic idea down, pop your logo in. You’ll want to make sure the colours of the rest of your temporary tattoo work well with the logo, and that it isn’t just stuck off the side… where scissors can cut it off altogether!

Borrow a design!

While I wouldn’t recommend straight-out copying of somebody else’s design for your temporary tattoos, even the top designers don’t just ‘come up’ with designs all by themselves. They have simply become skilled at seeking inspiration in other media, and refining it for their own use.

Temporary tattoos are most similar to t-shirts in the prominence and number of design elements. Have a look around at t-shirt designs on the internet – they usually contain just the right proportions of words and pictures to fit on a temporary tattoo.

You can also check out simpler real tattoos as inspiration for your temporary tattoo designs – if you aren’t sure whether they’ll translate well to your own product, your temporary tattoo manufacturer and printer can usually provide some pointers.

Don’t forget that if you really feel stuck, most good temporary tattoo manufacturers will also provide some design ideas for the perfect temp tatt!

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5 Tips to a Hot and Sexy Tattoo Design for Ladies

5 Tips to a Hot and Sexy Tattoo Design for Ladies

Article by Matt Leroy

Hot women might really turn heads everywhere they go but ladies with hot and sexy tattoo designs can really make males drool. Tattoos are some of the most noticeable images or ‘permanent’ accessories that somebody could place on their bodies and seeing such masterpieces on females can really redefine what is meant to be cool – particularly if they’re hot and sexy.

The following discusses 5 of the hottest and sexiest design variations for tattoos that would really look great on any girl.

A Fairy at My Ankle

Hot and sexy tattoo designs can be located anyplace on a girl’s body and would still come out as stunning as any other tattoo designs, even if it is placed on or close to the ankle. Such sexy designs can be very flirty and can even be enticing to look at. However, the image you should pick should make you more appealing and exotic instead of choosing something ‘cute’ or ‘safe’. One of the best images that a girl can pick would be the sleek and sexy fairy designs that would conform to the curves and contours on her ankle area.

An Angel at My Back

A sleek and sexy angel sporting mighty eternal wings placed at any girl’s back can really be a great hot and sexy tattoo design. Forego the cute and charming cherubs and baby-like angel images and choose a more exotic, bold-looking and completely sexy angel design. You can even be more exotic and bolder and select a ‘dark angel’ theme for your design and create a sexier effect.

Dragons: Sexy and Dangerous

Bold and daring girls would not want plain and simple tattoo designs on their bodies but would rather select something sexy and dangerous. And what can elicit a sense of danger while at the same time be exotic and sexy, better than a dragon. Having a dragon design at the lower part of a girl’s back or even at the shoulders can elicit both a sense of power and sleek beauty that only a dragon can bring.

Tigers: Bold and Different

The similar effect that dragons can yield as sexy and dangerous-looking designs, can also be had with tiger tattoos, especially if placed at the back for everyone to see. The design should not take a large portion of the back and ought to be positioned anywhere between the shoulders and the hips. It would be great to leave some area of skin untouched for a sexier and sleeker effect.

Say It in another Language

For some people, a design that is striking to look at, but not understandable by most is super sexy. Words like ‘beautiful’ or even ‘sexy’ written in Chinese, Japanese or any other exotic languages and writing can really have a sexy effect if tattooed on the back, arms or legs.

Bold and beautiful, sleek and sexy – these are traits that some women would like their image to project. They can do this with jewelry and clothing but nothing can create a more dominant effect than having a hot and sexy tattoo design on their bodies.

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How To Design Your Own Tattoo

How To Design Your Own Tattoo

Article by Andy D. Wilson

Thinking of designing a tattoo, that’s unique to you. Then read on below you will find various common designs that you can use as a basis and later in the article, some fantastic tattoo technology that can help you create your perfect tattoo in under 3 minutes flat.

Here are the most popular designs:

Some of the types of designs you can choose from would be celtic, tribal, octopus designs or Kanji (Japanese), just to name a few and of which I will go into more details in this article.

With Tribal designs you have to be very careful not of offend anyone as tribal tattoos generally are used to identify tribes, clans and families. It was intended to allow someone to find his or her tribe and not any one individual in particular. The great thing about these tattoos is that they come from designs created by the ancient civilisations, first imprinted by accident by playing around with fire and burnt sticks. So these tattoos have a lot of meaning from history and have been around for a very long time. Early tribal tattoos were pictures created to honor their gods i.e. flames to honor the sun god.

Tribal tattoos are the most common tattoo and come in a great range of designs. They depict native cultures of the past and can be manipulated into new modern graphic designs, that look excellent and give that WOW factor.

Today tribal tattoos may not actually identify a specific tribe, but move more towards identifying contemporary tribal groups such as fraternal gangs and the maori people of New Zealand. A Maori tattoo is done using chisels and was considered sacred. This process is long and painful and they celebrate important events in life. They consist mainly of distinctive curved shapes and spirals and represent courage and strength.

Octopus designs in some instances symbolise intelligence, wisdom, grace and adaptability. Squids are believed to be mysterious as they can change colour and disappear. Many sea lovers are amazed by the squids beauty. Octopuses under attack can disengage their limbs and can then re-grow them. Octopus designs look better than most tattoo designs and can be wrapped around the arm or leg with ease as these designs are very flexible. Some examples have designs where the head is shaped into a globe, the tentacles are represented by waves and even some have them looking like aliens.

With Kanji designs (japanese), there has always been a fascination with the japanese characters – these characters are representative of pictures and not of actual letters etc, so each symbol has a specific meaning and the combining of symbols can mean something different. That is why you have to be very careful when you choose your final design. It is always a good idea to have the symbols written out on paper and then get it translated by an independent person to verify it says what you want it to say. You can find some translation services even on the web, or go down to your local asian area and ask around on what the symbols mean.

Although they call them japanese the symbol originate from ancient China and these symbols are used throughout the asian world. The single characters have the same meaning throughout all the languages that use them, some symbols have been modified to make them simpler and fit into the language and culture, but basically they are the same and mean the same.

The symbols look very nice when they are represented by the artistic brushstrokes from which they come. Choose carefully, then you can have a beautiful symbol engraved upon your person for a lifetime. Try not to pick symbols that may offend anyone.

With Celtic Tattoos you have a lot of choices, knots, crosses, tree of life, hearts, celtic claddagh, spiral, maze and animal Celtic designs. The animal designs actually represent various meanings related to the harmony of nature. For example the bull stands for strength, the Dog for loyalty and luck and the Snake for fertility, rebirth and healing.

The knot is the most common Celtic design and can be entwined with various geometric shapes. When two shapes combine it usually makes a trinity knot that symbolises the mind, body and spirit – how cool is that.

Spiral designs can form complicated patterns and continuous lines which generally represent immortality of love. Celtic Claddagh includes hearts that are usually depicted wearing a crown. The Tree of Life is similar to the cross and builds a connection between heaven and earth. The Cross design likewise does the same, the cross is a representation of their faith and love for their creator. Finally the maze represents ones journey throughout the joys and challenges of life.

So with Celtic designs make sure you understand the meaning first and select a design that appeals to you, observe the lines of the pattern and browse through galleries to pick your final design.

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A Simple Way To Design Your Own Tattoo

A Simple Way To Design Your Own Tattoo

Article by Travis Mcgill

When approaching the topic of tattoo design the obvious advice might be to go to the library or search for information online that talks about the art of tattoo creation. But these methods are often reserved for verbal aesthetics along the lines favored by book enthusiasts rather than actually getting into the design process itself.

After all, you are not going to become an artist. You just want to create a pattern that you can feel deeply about and find a way to transfer that idea intact to a professional tattoo artist who can ink your design onto your skin.

You do not want to walk into a tattoo parlor empty handed and you clearly understand the weakness of using words to convey an image when you would instead like to simply transfer the picture in your mind’s eye directly to the professional.

To start the entire design process you probably have figured out that the time you have already spent looking at thousands of tattoos has taught you that many of them are close to what you want – but not quiet. But your effort has prompted you to consider the possibly of applying what you have learned to your goal.

And so you begin to play with the notion that it is always a good working idea to pick parts of different tattoo designs that inspire you and paste those selected pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle to get a good visual impression of a pattern that could easily become your own unique tattoo.

With a bit more thought – along the lines just mentioned – you now are convinced that the only remaining task is to think of a simple way to turn these ideas into a mechanical reality – and sure enough – the following ideas jump into view.

To design your own tattoos, you can gain access to an online tattoo gallery where you can find thousands of designs.

Then from the gallery, you can pick and choose images that fire up your imagination.

You can print out as many different designs as you want.

Now you can cut portion of each printed tattoo and – working on some sort of art board – maneuver the various pieces of paper into different configurations until the right overall pattern suddenly appears.

Apply scotch tape to hold the loose paper pieces in place on your art board and rush immediately to your local tattoo parlor with your finished product in hand.

Your extra effort will serve you well as you proudly wear your unique and very own personal creation.

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