All about men's thigh tattoos

With the help of a tattoo, you can express yourself, emphasize your individuality, establish yourself in the circle of tattoo art lovers, if necessary, cover scars or some other defects. One of the most popular and practical places for men to tattoo is the thigh area.

Placing male thigh tattoos has a number of advantages.

• The outer thigh area is one of the most pain-free areas to paint. Thick skin, fat layer and muscles protect the nerve fibers underneath, so it turns out almost painless.
• The large size of this part of the body allows you to make large drawings with many details.
• Good accessibility to this area makes it possible to independently take care of fresh tattoos without any problems.
• A drawing placed in such a place is easy to hide if situations arise when it can undermine the image with its aggressiveness.
• The tattoo applied to the thigh retains its high-quality original appearance for a long time.
• Using both hips allows you to make paired or complementary drawings. For example, on one hip there is a ship, on the other there is a beacon towards which it is aiming.

Quite often in this area, color drawings are made using white ink, which gives the picture volume and depth.

Large-scale drawings are recommended here, sometimes even capturing the lower back and lower legs. Small and oblong tattoos look ridiculous in this place.

The placement of drawings on the thigh is especially popular among people with well-trained leg muscles: among football players, wrestlers, and athletes. On muscular legs, tattoos look especially impressive.

When determining the feasibility of applying a tattoo on the leg and selecting a sketch, the thickness of the hair should be taken into account, since excessive hairiness of the legs can simply interrupt the drawing. If a man does not plan to remove hair, then there will be no point in such a tattoo.

Tattoo artists use both traditional and innovative techniques and styles of drawing.

The basic principle of the tattoo technique: a drawing is applied to the top layer of the skin with a needle with a coloring pigment. Line and color form the basis of almost any image. It can be applied with dots - dotwork, and with the help of vips, shadows and a gradient from a thick saturated layer to dotted or dotted images are created.

Modern youth prefers the watercolor technique, the older generation is closer to graphic images.

The choice of application technique depends on the style of the image.

• Biomechanical style stunning realism of the drawing is achieved by the 3D technique, when every detail and the smallest element are carefully drawn.

• Blackwork good for covering boring or poorly applied tattoos. The drawing is filled with a large size, with a significant part of the leg filled with black, and the rest is detailed with neat images.

• For men who like colored tattoos, the new school style is suitable. Quite often these are plot pictures with cartoon characters. Such compositions can be supplemented with inscriptions.

• Ethnic tattoos on the thigh are very popular.when patterns or ornaments with meaning are applied on the leg. Such drawings can become a talisman for a man or a kind of amulet. In this style, many people prefer Polynesian or Celtic designs.

• Trash polka is in special demand with aggressive plots of black and red colors.

• Laconic is still popular classic tribal.

There are a lot of sketches for tattoos that are chosen by representatives of the stronger sex.

• Most often, men apply army, religious, fantasy, and nautical tattoos. Popular images of mythical creatures, animals, insects, birds, flowers, signs of the zodiac.

• Rarely, there are numbers, runes, symbols of death, historical images, DNA chains on tattoos.

• Some choose a drawing with meaning, and for many, the aesthetic appearance of the image remains a priority in choosing.

• The most popular are the classic dragon images. The eastern wingless dragon is a symbol of power and lofty goals.

• The sacred image of a snake has not lost its popularity since ancient times, giving men wisdom, calmness and strength, recalling the destructive power of temptations.

• The image on a whale tattoo is inherent in guys who are calm, noble, in harmony with themselves and the world around them.

• The man who chose the sketch with black wings reminds of the mortality of everything earthly and of the inadmissibility of condemning other people for their mistakes. The drawing with white wings symbolizes purity and purity of thoughts.

• Confident men choose the image of a wolf - a brave, fair, honest and intelligent animal.

• Romantic natures who want changes in their lives send a ship with raised sails on their hips.

• Representatives of the stronger sex protect themselves from evil spirits with the help of the image of a dream catcher. Such a tattoo saves from bad thoughts and instills faith in the best.

• Inscriptions in the form of hieroglyphs and in their native or foreign language are popular among men. Latin is often used. Men attach particular importance to the semantic content of the inscriptions. These can be aphorisms of famous people, names of people dear to the heart, a statement of their life principles. The favorite font of brutal men is Gothic.

The tattoo should be harmoniously combined with the man's lifestyle, revealing his inner world, emphasizing his merits and hiding his flaws. A well-chosen and well-executed tattoo will not only evoke positive emotions of the man himself, but will also draw the attention of the people around him to him.