I’ve got to be honest, tribals aren’t normally for me. Partially because they just don’t “do it” for me, but partially because of the type of people you often see wearing them. But then i also try and avoid stereotyping people and i’m sure you’d dislike a lot of the things i like, but that’s just my opinion.

That said, i think tribals CAN be used to make good tattoos, and it sounds like you’ve got some fresh ideas which is nice and makes a change from most of the standard crap you see people getting.

I also agree that tattoos don’t have to have a meaning. You wouldn’t refuse to buy a painting or a wallpaper with a patern on it because the pattern had no personal meaning to you. I’ve got nothing against having meanings behind a tattoo, but it doesn’t seem neccissary to me.

You don’t need to justify your decisiong of getting a tattoo to us or anyone else, it’s your body and your desision ultimately.

If you go to a (feel free to look through more than one) tattoo shop with a decent artist they will probably have a range of fonts in their shop to show you that you could pick from or just get inspiration from if you want your own. Describe to him/her what you want, they will draw you up a stensil (normally costs around £10) and then you go back to see if you like it when it’s done and they take it from there.

Designing your tattoo when you haven’t designed it yourself is best discussed with your chosen artist as you will need to discuss it with them anyway and they will often give you advise on what they think will look good and after all, they’re the experts who’ve done this hundreds of times, it’s often worth listening to them.

I think it;s best to get something that people will be able to tell what it is quickly.

The black looks slightly patchy, but most artists will touch up things like that for free once it’s had time to heal properly.

Out of interest, i’m in the midlands, which shop/artist you using?

Tbh, i think that could look a lot worse, it’s not that bad and i’ve seen a lot worse.

Sadly, because of the size and how spread out it is, it looks like it could be rather difficult to cover that up. Really, you could do with paying a professional artist to look at this, it’s much easier to decide when you can see something in the flesh.

Do you have any ideas what tattoo you would want there instead?

A lot of people seem to get this tattoo. Looks kinda cool, but i’m not a massive fan of Black Flag and it’s a little generic now.

Oh man, i feel sorry for these people.

All of the ones of people are scary, the last one in perticular.