White tattoos (88 photos) - advantages and disadvantages, places of application (on the arm, forearm, as a sleeve), interesting photo ideas

Advantages and disadvantages

To the definitely positive sides of white tattoos can be attributed such features:

• An inconspicuous light tattoo does not attract too much attention, you can work with it in the corporation and in the office, no one will notice it;
• At the moment when you get tired of the drawing, you do not have to remove anything, tattoo whites themselves turn pale and invisible after a couple of years.

The disadvantages are as follows:

• the process of application itself drags on longer, passes more difficult;
• The white paint fades quickly, it can turn yellow;
• White tattoos themselves look like scars, as they are often perceived by outsiders;
• healing is very long, even with intensive care;
• there is a possibility of allergies to white paint - this happens more often than in the case of dark pigment;
• If the skin is very light, the visibility of white tattoos is very low, which reduces the attractiveness of this option. If the skin is swarthy or dark, the tattoo may have a red tint in the course of healing.

Ideas for white tattoos

• The most popular in this case is the drawing of lace. It gives relief, volume to the entire image.
• Other popular ideas are birds, butterflies, stars, hearts, and arrows.
• Various inscriptions, quotes and names, initials of favorite people are very much in demand in salons.

When you choose a salon and a master for the performance of the project, it is worth asking whether the artist knows the technique. Not all masters know how to use white pigment. In this case, it is important to properly mix the white tone with other colors.

Achieve perfection and incredibly beautiful results can be achieved by mixing in the right proportion pale shades of pink, purple, bluish. In this case, tattoo white will look like an embossing on the surface of the skin - it is a beautiful style and does not resemble a scar.

Places for tattoos white

Most often girls like to score such tattoos on the hands. Ornaments and flowers look great on the hands on the hips. Text inscriptions are convenient to score on the forearm, on the wrist. Abstraction is more often applied to the neck, chest, and if the symbol is small, they can decorate the fingers.

The male sex prefers white tattoos on the shoulders, chest, back, legs. Most likely, this option is related to the size of the picture, which is large-scale and volumetric.

Design variations

Girls like thin, light lines with an airy effect. It really is a beautiful decoration of the body. Choose sketches from photos in the master's album, on the Internet, on video - the choice is quite good.

• Mandalas - the word translates from Sanskrit as "circle" and refers to magical symmetrical images that influence the subconscious mind. It is a useful tool for meditation as well as a symbol of peace, harmony, life energy.
• Flowers - there are countless of them. But to the most popular can be attributed lotuses, lilies, snowdrops, daisies, chrysanthemums, peonies. The lotus is a symbol of spiritual purity, the peony is a symbol of prosperity and honor. Roses - beauty and ideal qualities, daisy - innocence.
• Inscriptions - in this case white tattoos are inscribed as initials, quotes from movies and books, in the form of Latin aphorisms. In this way you can declare your love, declare your priorities, put a reminder of goals, score names and dates.
• Hearts, Buddhist symbols, animals, birds, insects - the customer's imagination is not limited by anything. Any drawing will be alluring and interesting in the white version.

Men love large white tattoos that cover a large area of the body. Common options:

• Geometry - complex or uncomplicated figures that form a composition, individual elements or details of a whole arm.
• Animals - totem animals, just cute animals, wolves, tigers, snakes, dragons, lions. They signify strength of spirit and connection with nature, protection of the tribe, aggression.
• Religious signs and amulets, compasses, runes, hieroglyphs, stars and planets - other symbols also give room for creativity.

Look through the collection of photos of finished works - among them you'll surely find one that will inspire the idea for a future tattoo in white. The master will advise to make the very variant that will look winning and beautiful. Against the background of most black tattoos gentle white color looks incredibly winning.

Carefully take care of white tattoos - they require more attention. If necessary, renew the pigment, visit the salon to update the tattoo. If you need to change the picture to black, it will not be difficult to do so - the dark paint will lay well on top of the light one, but the reverse process will be impossible. Therefore, for beauty, it is worth choosing clean areas of the body, where you will apply white tattoos.

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