Tribal Sleeve - Leo Zulueta is credited with bringing tribal style tattooing from the South Pacific to the United States in the late 70's. But is was George Clooney's character in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn that caused the tribal sleeve to explode in popularity. Tribal sleeves may be the worst sleeve trend of all as they take another peoples tattoo culture, remove all the meaning and mock the origins of tattoo designs that date back centuries. They are also next to impossible to cover up once tattoo regret sets in.Biomechanical Sleeve - Biomechanical tattooing was pioneered by tattoo artist like Aaron Cain and other tattooist in the San Francisco bay area. A breakaway from traditional style American tattooing, biomechanical uses images of the human flesh mixed with machine parts. Basically biomechanical tattoos mix organic images with inorganic images. It quickly became over used.
Flame Sleeve - No clear origins on the flame sleeve but whoever created it should be ashamed. The sleeve is not only hard to look at but is unbelievable boring for the tattoo artist. Flame tattoos are not only a waste of good skin but will also prove difficult to cover.
Random Cool Stuff Sleeve - A twist on the American style hodgepodge sleeve that is acquired over time, the random cool stuff sleeve is acquired quickly. The images often include skulls, flowers, brass knuckles, something with wings,maybe a couple of flames. A newer variation on this sleeve is to get random candy pieces or random kids toys tattooed as a sleeve.
The biomechanical tattoos became famous during the Eighties but it is still popular even now. The main reason for its popularity is that it shows that life has become very mechanical. Biomechanical tattoos are done by the tattoo artists using either of the two different techniques; one is the trompe loeil style and the other is "the trick of the eye" art. These tattoos show some hidden potentiality within them. Imagine that you have got a mechanical lever in the place of titanium skeleton and tendons. Thus, these tattoos help us to show out true colors.
All the religions based on The Holy Bible, like Christianism, both Fundamentalists and Catholics along with Judaism have a common view that getting a tattoo done is wrong. However, what is surprising is that the reason for considering a tattoo to be forbidden differs between all these three religions.
Religious tattoos and the symbolism of the various religions have strangely become popular to secular society. Crosses and pictures of Jesus and praying hands or the sacred heart have been seen gracing the biceps of clearly non-religious individuals.
Among tattoo designs, religious tattoos are one of the most popular themes. They stand as a strong declaration of a personal faith, and can be a proud statement to the world that has a certain power beyond your average tattoo. What a good deal of people are combining the powerful statement of these designs, with the amazing style of ambigrams.
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