Back Tattoo Designs
Using the Body's Biggest Canvas, Amazing Back Tattoo Designs
More than a quarter of women between eighteen and fifty years old have looked into back tattoo designs, and one in five actually has a lower back tattoo. There's something uniquely sexy and sensual about lower back tattoo designs. A hint of something poking up from her waistline and onto her lower back can draw the eye and the mind to some exciting places.
At the same time, the masculinity of a well-built pair of shoulders with a taut back between them makes the upper back an ideal place for a man to make a statement in ink. Whether it's a potent tribal tattoo or a graceful winged serpent, upper back tattoos are a statement in expansive power.
Why get a Back Tattoo?
The advantages of a back tattoo design are several: They're easily hidden under everyday clothes (but also easily exposed without breaking any laws), the basic shape of your back doesn't change that much as you age, so the tattoo won't distort much over time, and the nerves in the back aren't as sensitive as other parts of the body, so getting the tattoo applied isn't as stressful of an experience. Also, there's simply lots of space on the back, so a large, complex tattoo that wouldn't fit many other places can easily be accommodated there.
Popular Back Tattoo Designs
Back designs that are popular vary widely, but the most common are tribal designs -- abstract, solid patterns of a symmetrical nature that often resemble thorns, flames, or knots -- and scripts, from Chinese or Sanskrit sayings to a simple "I love you" in stylized English. Less common but still quite popular are dragons, tigers, and shoulderblade-wings for men, and lotus flowers, butterflies, and dolphins for women.
All told, the back presents a combination of an expansive 'canvas' with a simple sexiness that is hard to deny. Whatever back tattoo designs you choose to grace your rearward surfaces with, you're sure to be most disappointed by the fact that you can't admire them without a mirror.
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