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If you've seen practically any movie or television show lately, you might be under the impression that certain types of people get certain types of tattoos. Women get butterflies or flowers; men get tribal armbands - at least according to the media. But if you look closely, you'll see that there's lots of flexibility, especially for small cross tattoos.

A cross tattoo is a good choice for both men and women. If you're a man, you might feel pressured to choose a large design. But a nice tattoo doesn't have to be one that covers your entire chest or back. You can make a statement that's equally powerful if you select a small design.

One important thing to keep in mind is that you have more freedom to choose where to place a small tattoo. Big tattoos necessarily require large patches of skin, but a small tattoo can be placed almost anywhere. If you want to place a tattoo on your arm or leg, for example, a smaller design will fit more easily than a large one.

For ladies, a small tattoo is probably the more intuitive choice. Women are usually smaller than men, so they have less skin to work with. Also, because their bodies are more curvaceous, it can be hard to find an area that can be tattooed relatively easily (and relatively painlessly)! A smaller tattoo is often seen as more feminine.

Tribal Arm Tattoo - Finding The Right Designs and Artwork 01

The tribal arm tattoo is a great choice to begin with. Finding the right designs and artwork can be a real pain, though, as you may have found out. These tips and design ideas will help you cut through the mess.

First of all, most of the tribal arm tattoo designs you may have seen have probably been from cookie-cutter websites, which has designs that have already been plastered all over the place. Who knows how many other people already have those tattoos inked on their skin? The good news is that it is pretty easy to find quality artwork, without having to settle for a Google search. This is a good thing, because even though you might have found great looking drawings or flash work on some websites, there is a good chance that they will not come out good once implemented as a tattoo, especially on the arm. This is because while the artist that drew it might be a good artist, there are a lot of artists that don't know how to really draw something so that it will look good as a real, live tattoo.

The best place that I have found to research the best places, with the most original art, especial when it comes to tribals and tribal arm tattoo art, has been internet forums. Forums are an awesome place to get honest posts from people that have already found what you are looking for. Remember, people love to brag to other people when they find something very good, or when they strike gold, especially after a long search. There is no better place to spread the wealth than on a forum. Now, on to a brief history of tribal tattoos and the tribal arm tattoo.

Hawaiian Arm Tribal Tattoo

One of the biggest and hottest growing trends in the art of tattoo design is Hawaiian arm or leg band tattoos. As this trend goes a lot of people think to themselves, well of course. At least that is what I said to myself at first. You can hardly drive more then 10 minutes on the freeway in southern California where I am from and not see a big SUV like a Lincoln Navigator or a Cadillac Escalade and not see a Hawaiian sticker. Things with flowers designs, or turtles, dolphins. Ya see it started off with the sticker and then the car seat covers with hibiscus flowers everywhere and it just grew from there.

This trend of Hawaiian design has then met it's match with the whole tribal tattoo movement. Tribal tattoos have been the hottest thing in the tattoo world since sliced bread or the old school WWII era Hula dancer. You see these influences have been all around us for a long time my grandpa even has one of those Hula Girls tattoos still. Granted it is a little saggy and faded now but he still has one on his forearm nonetheless.
So the whole tribal tattoo and the growth in interest for Hawaiian designs have combined to make a hot and growing market for Hawaiian tattoos. This is really an up and coming thing and it not huge yet. However many tattoo artists are spotting the trend and jumping on it already.