Hand Tattoos

Hand tattoos are very popular with the youth. The people who are having a hand tattoo want to give message to other people through their hand tattoo. Tattooing on hand is often very painful stuff. People in the most of the cases opt for bearing the pain of the hand tattoos to show their craze regarding this body ink art.

Popular inks for this kind of body art

Gang symbols are most popular kind of hand tattoos. Tattoo may increase on the hands with the increase in the rank of the gang.

Celebrities with hand tattoos

Celebrities that you could spot with hand tattoos are:

• Britney Spears: a star was tattooed on her hands recently in the studio city.
• Dave Navarro: this famous rock star is having numbers written in roman language on four fingers of his hands.
• Jesse James: on the right hand palm of this chopper builder a phrase is tattooed.
• Indian Larry: this brave stuntman who had very recently deceased had an iron cross tattoo on his hand.

Why to choose your hand for tattoos?

The top reasons for why you should choose your hand for tattoo are:

• The hand is the most visible part of our body.
• To show your commitment towards the tattooing art as tattooing a hand is more painful.
• This is a right place for religious tattoos.
• Some people make a ring of tattoo on their ring finger to mark the bond of their marriage.

Different cultures in hand tattoos

Hand tattoos are made in circles on the hand. To regard a person many persons tattoo’s the name of a loved one or any date associated to that person on their hands. The other hand tattoos in different culture around the world are:

• Arabic culture: From many long ago in Arab women use tattoo henna to beautify their hands on any occasion.
• Prison culture: People in prison of many parts of world got these tattoos when they are in association with a particular gang or a crime.
• Some of the tribal people from New Zealand and Australia have tattoos to signify a particular tribe of a family.
• The Japanese art of body art allows tattoo sleeve. A mafia group in Japan known as Yakuza tattooed its member according to the rank allotted to them. This art of body inking was known as Horimono.

Certain things that you should keep in mind!

To get a tattoo on the hand is a very painful stuff. And also remember that this is a place that would be easily visible to any person you meet. Select only those designs that would be apt with your personality. Look for the right placement of the tattoo. Do research with your skin specialist for the type of ink that would suit your hands. By doing this you could avoid your hand from any kind of infections. Do not pressurize your hands beyond the limits before it gets healed.