Tattoo Sleeve Ideas
A sleeve tattoo (or a tattoo sleeve) is an immensely detailed, highly designed and beautiful piece of artwork. A full sleeve tattoo will cover a person’s an entire arm, all the way from the wrist to the shoulder and around on all sides. A full sleeve tattoo will often even continue from there, covering a person’s chest and/or back in continuation.
A sleeve tattoo is a big process to undertake and one that is not completed in a single sitting. Even if you go in with a plan for a sleeve tattoo (you know exactly what you want to do to cover all of that space from the start) you still won’t be able to get it all done at once.
This is because all of that artwork will take a lot of time to complete and the finished portions should be allowed to heal. Also, considering the size and scope of a sleeve tattoo, they are expensive propositions.
Many people however either don’t know what they want to fill in a complete sleeve tattoo with from the beginning or don’t have a plan to actually get a sleeve tattoo in the future. As they continue on, different events in their life occur or different designs and symbols are found, and as such the sleeve tattoo begins to form, one tattoo at a time.
Some sleeve tattoos keep a consistent style and meaning throughout the entire design, while others blend styles and symbols creating an interesting fabric of interwoven designs. Common themes for sleeve tattoos include Celtic knot tattoos, which are great for combining different tattoos with each other; tribal tattoos, which are dark and take up a lot of space and flames running down somebody’s arm and extending out of other designs. Sleeve tattoos often consist of important people, places and events in a person’s life, and sometimes can be “read” like a story from one end to the other.
Tattoo sleeves are not for everybody though. As mentioned above, they are expensive and time consuming. In a world where tattoos are still frowned upon by some (prospective employers or family members for instance) sleeve tattoos may get you unwanted negative attention and feedback. As an example, the United States Marines just banned full sleeve tattoos.
Instead of getting a full sleeve tattoo, you can pursue getting a half sleeve tattoo. A half sleeve tattoo is just what it sounds like. It can either extend from the shoulder to the elbow or from the wrist to the elbow. A quarter sleeve tattoo will typically run from the shoulder half way down to the elbow. Sleeve tattoos are gaining so much traction that certain companies even make fake tattoo sleeves that you can purchase and wear like an arm stocking.
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