How to Choose the Best Tattoo for You

If you’re looking to get a new tattoo, you want it to be the best. You only have so much, canvas space on your body, right? So you can’t waste surface area with a tattoo that’s subpar. That’s why we’re highlighting 74 of the best tattoos we’ve seen. These should give you some ideas of what to take to your artist.

You can look at tattoos in a few different ways. First, what are you trying to accomplish. Second, who are they for? Third, what’s your style?

What’s Your Goal?
Do you want your tattoos to simply display great artwork for visual pleasure or do you want them to mean something? If you want them to mean something, how far down into your personality do you want to go? Do you want to show your interests or your beliefs, a joke or a life motto?

The answers to those questions will determine whether you’re looking for a design or a specific image. A lot of guys are going for floral, geometric, or tribal designs just for the artistry. They add some flair to your skin. Other men choose images of religious figures, verses of Scriptures, or popular quotes to remind themselves and others what they believe in. Others feature tattoos of tigers, warriors, and dragons to show their strength. Still others get tattoos of skulls, an hourglass, or death faces to say, “I know it’s coming and I’m not afraid.” Finally, many men get tattoos of their favorite superheroes, movie characters, video games, or sports team logos as a sign of where their interests lie.



Who’s it For?
This question speaks to placement as well as theme. If you want other people to see and admire your artwork, you’ll to place it on your arms or other visible location. If you’d rather keep it private, the chest is the area you’ll see most while not exposing it to others.

If you do want to show it off, your design should be clear and easy to see. You don’t people staring awkwardly at your body while they try to figure out what your tattoo is. Keep text short and easy to read. Any images should be large enough to see the details. Use color to enhance the clarity and beauty of your tat.



What’s Your Style?
Do you want your tattoo image to be cartoony or realistic? Sketched or finished? Shaded or colored? Abstract or lifelike? Whatever you choose, try to be consistent with any other tattoos you get. Even a collection of tattoos all based on different interests can make a fabulous collage when unified by a single or complementary art styles.

The Best Neck Tattoos Perfect

There are tattoos that easily grab people’s attention. One of those is neck tattoos, considered by some as one of the more niche tattoo categories because of the unconventional location. Unless it’s covered by clothing, a neck tattoo is pretty much guaranteed to get at least one curious look every day when you’re outside.

Most people don’t think of neck tattoos for their first ink. Usually, they choose popular tattoo areas like the biceps, forearms, and ankles. Even those who already have lots of ink on their body often hesitate to get a neck tattoo because it’s right up there with face tattoos as one of the boldest tattoos around.

But when you look past the unconventional location, the entire neck area is actually an excellent place for body art. It’s big enough to accommodate small and meaningful tattoo designs. It has a good amount of flat space to keep text-based tattoos readable. And best of all, you can incorporate neck tattoos into shoulder tattoos, upper back tattoos, or chest tattoos, if you have one, to create a large tattoo piece.

The list of designs for neck tattoos isn’t exactly the longest. The limited amount of space erases large tattoo designs from the equation. You can’t simply downsize a tattoo design meant for areas like the lower back or leg. Because certain large designs only look great when displayed in their full size, which includes Japanese tattoos and highly detailed lion tattoos for men.

You need to be really careful when choosing the design. You can’t just randomly pick one, thinking you can easily have it covered up or laser-removed when you have a change of heart. Remember, for cover-up tattoos, the replacement design needs double the amount of space than the original tattoo. And we’re not going to go into detail here about how unpleasant laser removals can be.

Make sure that the neck tattoo design you choose is adequately sized to prevent the curves from compromising the design. Take a design featuring a Native American chieftain on the side of the neck, for example. It’s okay for the elaborate headdress to wrap around the neck curve. But the chieftain’s face needs to be centered as much as possible.

The neck is also an excellent place for flower tattoos, which work great in different sizes. You can even go for a neck tattoo design featuring a full range of colorful flowers around the neck. Flower tattoos look awesome on both men and women. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. Rose tattoos, in particular, look like they were made for the neck area. There’s something about a blood-red rose tattoo that makes it a popular choice among men.

Of course, finding a design is easier when you have a shoulder, chest, or upper back tattoo and plan to incorporate your neck tattoo into it. But we recommend going to the same tattoo artist to make sure the style is consistent with the designs.