Tribal Tattoos

Tribal tattoos are easily the most popular type of tattoo available today. They originated many years ago from the indigenous and aboriginal communities as a form of body art, with each design signifying a unique tribe, clan or family that that person represents. They often had spiritual meanings as well.

The term 'tribal', when used in conjunction with tribal tattoos, is a wide-ranging one nowadays and embodies many different tribes from around the world. Some categories of tribal tattoos include:

- Aztec Tattoos
- Borneo Tattoos
- Celtic Tattoos
- Chinese Tattoos
- Haida Tattoos
- Hawaiian Tattoos
- Maori Tattoos
- Marquesan Tattoos
- Polynesian Tattoos
- Native American Tattoos

So as you can see tribal tattoos have originated and evolved throughout many parts of the world in many different cultures. Nowadays a lot of tribal tattoos do not represent any specific culture, but instead are creative designs done by tattoo artists in the tribal style.

As regards the style of the designs themselves, most tribal tattoos are usually done in black ink and often consist of a lot of thick black lines, curves and interlocking patterns. This means that they are easy to customise yourself, which is part of the reason why they are so popular. Rather than copying an existing tribal tattoo, you can be creative and come up with your own design, and present it to your tattoo artist who will recreate it for you.

The great thing about tribal tattoo designs is that when coming up with your own design, you can create specific types of tattoos in a tribal style, ie with lots of thick black lines and curves. For example, instead of a conventional cat or dragon tattoo, for example, you could give it a tribal look and make it look even more impressive, and unique to you.

Another thing I like about tribal tattoo designs is that they look great on any area of the body. So whether you want a small discreet tattoo on your wrist or ankle, for example, or you want a big bold design on your chest or back, tribal tattoos always look impressive whether they're big or small.

For the very best tribal tattoo designs I recommend paying a small one-off membership fee to either Chopper Tattoo or Tattoo Me Now. Both of these excellent websites have hundreds of top quality tribal tattoos to choose from (plus thousands of tattoos in other categories as well) all of which are much better than those found on many of the free tattoo sites.