Tattoo Style
A style of tattoo defined by bold lines, bright colors, and simplistic design. Often associated with sailors.
Traditional or Old School
This refers to a type of tattoo that is done on top of another tattoo, to replace the original tattoo.
A Cover-up tattoo.
The machine that is used to sterilize all tattoo equipment. (Also used for piercing equipment.)
An Autoclave
This type of tattoo style is natively called "Ci Shen" and originates from this country.
China
This is used to symbolize freedom, flight, and independence.
A Bird
This style of tattoo uses common shapes such as triangles, squares, circles, and lines, to create designs and/or pictures.
Geometric
When a person has a group of small tattoos that are seemingly unrelated and/or touching.
Patchwork
Aftercare products "H2Ocean" and "Hustlebutter" aim to do this to a fresh tattoo.
Protects a new tattoo from infection and helps keep the healing skin moist.
Most notably found on the chin of this country's indiginous people, Ta Moko is used to signify the passage from childhood to adulthood.
New Zealand
Typically adorning those who have dealt with mental health struggles, this tattoo symbolizes going forward when you could have stopped.
Semi-Colon
A style of tattoos that appear as if they were drawn with just one line.
Continuous Line
This occurs when an artist stays in the same spot for too long, causing the needle to go too deep into the skin.
A Blowout
Done without a machine, by hand, this type of tattoo gained popularity among teenagers and young adults for its ease of access.
Stick n' Poke
Lines down the chin at the beginning of the first menstruation are the first tattoos given to Iñupiaq women, natives of this US State.
Alaska
This tattoo often adorns those who have survived sexual assault.
Medusa Head
A style of realism tattoos that make it appear as if the person has complicated machinery inside of them.
Biomech Tattoo
A break or skip in tattoo ink caused by ink disappearing during healing or if the artist misses that spot during application is called this.
A Holiday
This tattoo equipment includes brands such as "InkJecta" and "Vlad Blad."
Tattoo Guns
The Ptasan is a facial tattoo that denotes mastery of weaving for women, and mastery of hunting in men, for the Atayal, indiginous people of this East Asian country.
Taiwan
This tattoo symbolizes rebirth, reincarnation, and possibilities. It is popular to get in the wrist area.
Infinity Symbol
A style that is usually done in black, white, and red that combines realism, surrealism, lettering, and bold patterns. A relatively newer tattoo style.
Trash Polka
This type of Tattoo adorns a shop's walls that are pre-designed. Typically less expensive and offered by newer artists.
Flash Tattoos
Tattoo ink is permanent because of the contents of heavy metals that the body cannot break down. The metal Chromium is used in ink to make this color.
Green
Meaning "to strike" the word "tatau" is considered the origin of the English word "tattoo." Tatau is also a style of tattoo, covering from the lower stomach to above the knees, of the indiginous people of this small Pacific Island.
Samoa
This simple design is a Norse symbol called an "Inguz" which means this phrase about never giving up.
"Where there is a will, there is a way."