When you go through the pain and excitement of getting a tattoo, the last thing you want to do is regret it because you picked a random design and now you’re stuck with this impersonal decoration forever. You need to take the time and find tattoos with meaning for you. Of course you want your tattoo to look pretty or show strength, but the design should also mean something to you personally so you are proud of displaying it. You can find apps and online forums that will help you find symbolic tattoos and meanings to them so even if you don’t have or want a personalized tattoo design you can find something symbolic that resonates with you. If you want to find unique tattoo inspiration to create your own design, you can look on apps like Tattoodo, which has a massive library of tattoo ideas from some of the best tattoo artists in the world. 

Now that you’re interested in different tattoo designs and ready to go down the wormhole of options, you can find limitless designs on apps and online. A great place to start for tattoo ideas would be Pinterest, just type in the kind of design you are looking for, or if you’re not sure just yet, search for tattoo pictures to see all kinds of shapes, colors, and meanings. If you want your tattoo to be physically attractive to others, you might want to filter your search for colorful tattoos. Another way to look for tattoos is looking at different tattoo artists. If you use an app like Inksquad, you can filter by location or style and choose an artist whose tattoo gallery you really like and work with them to come up with a custom tattoo design that will become a personal piece of artwork to you and your artist. 

After looking through scores of galleries, social media feeds, and apps you should be able to narrow down what kind of tattoo you want to get. There a different ways to decide this, and apps can help you get there. Apps can show you by filtering each style to see what tattoos of that genre look like. For example, if you are a computer programmer you might want to filter coding tattoos. You might see a cool coding tattoo idea that inspires you, or one you really like and you want to have the same. If you live in a big city and appreciate the street art around your neighborhood, then maybe you should filter to graffiti tattoos and if you would like something in that style. Another way to decide on a tattoo besides the style is by where you want to put the tattoo on your body. If the location is more important to you, then you should look into tattoos for hands and wrists or round tattoos for your shoulder. This way you can still see a variety of styles but where you specifically want it on your body. There are cool apps like Inkhunter which feature the ability to see the tattoo on your body by overlaying the image onto your skin so you can see what it would actually look like.