Guide to Pop Culture Tattoos Selection

I’ve had a fair number of requests for more details on the recent Miami trip. One place I walked past was Miami Ink, a tattoo parlor upon which a popular TLC reality TV series is apparently based. I snapped the fuzzy pic to the right. Full disclosure requries me to state that I don’t have any tattoos, nor have I any interest in getting one. That said, I am like many of you, a social observer and this is what I’ve discovered about tattoos:

Tattoo Placement and Content
Girls have four tattoo location possibilities designated by current style:

• Shoulder blade
• Lower back (derisively referred to as a tramp stamp)
• Ankle
• Upper leg/bikini region

Girls can choose: a butterfly, heart, fairy, star, or cross. Mystical/eastern characters and scripts are also becoming popular.

For a guy, there are only two area choices:

• Bicep (Celtic or tribal swirl), which sometimes extends up to the shoulder or down to the forearm
• Across the top back

Popular male tattoo selections include: Chinese characters, your last name, your nickname, your girlfriend’s name, something mean (dragon), or a woman image (often not child-friendly.)

Source : http://www.ryanbyrd.net/rambleon/2008/03/16/guide-to-pop-culture-tattoo-selection/