Hair Tattoo Designs

Hair tattoo designs were made popular by sports stars and rap artists and ever since have been a rage amongst the young. Although you won't see any office goers sporting hair tattoos because in these times of recession bosses are just looking for opportunities to fire employees. Teenagers, however, can get some cool hair tattoo designs to stand out in the crowd. You can add a touch of color to your hair tattoos to make them look cool. If you really up for it you can also try on glow in the dark color hair spray to spruce up your design.

Sports fans looking to emulate their favorite sports stars are queuing up outside hair saloons and hair stylists are upgrading their skills to meet the growing demand of people for hair tattoo designs. Doing a hair tattoo needs artistic skills and some well designed hair trimming tools to carve out intricate designs. One of the drawbacks of a hair tattoo is that the art form is short lived and vanishes when hair grows. To maintain the design you will have to visit your stylist quiet often and spend money.

Hair Tattoo Designs for Men

The stylist will generally cut your hair to about quarter of an inch to create hair tattoo designs, when finished they will lend a three dimensional look to your design. Hair tattoo designs for men are dominated by sports and since you can practically have a new design every few weeks if you have fast growing hair, you can really experiment. Here are some hair tattoo ideas to tickle your mind

Sports
If you are a soccer fan you could get a soccer ball design on the back of your head, a basket ball fan could tattoo NBA on the back of the head and two hockey sticks for the hockey fan. Carving out the jersey number of your favorite sports star is also a cool haircut idea.

Tribal
One of the best hair tattoos for short hair is the tribal tattoo designs with their flowing intricate lines. You could also inculcate some animal designs in you tribal art work if the hair stylists is good. Tribal hair tattoos done all across the head look really great or you could just have the design over your ears.

Hair Tattoo Designs for Kids

Kids can really experiment with their hair tattoo designs and some stylists say that kids walk in with some of the weirdest pictures to be carved on to their head. You can have cartoon characters, action figures or lettering on your head. Here are some hair cut styles and ideas to stimulate your mind

Signs
Once saw a kid with Einsteins E=MC² carved on the back of his head, must say looked cool and unique. Try out other geometrical signs and formulas, you could play the mad scientist and come up with your own formulas. You could also carve out Zodiac Tattoos on the top of your head or have a crucifix done on the back of your head.

Lettering
Try different tattoo lettering styles to carve out initials or words on your head. A cousin of mine had the letters F.E.A.R carved on his head he told me they meant 'Face Everything And Realize'. Some of the other lettering designs that seem popular are R.I.P and WAR. You could also depict foreign language symbols to portray your feelings and desires.

Hair Tattoo Designs for Women

Nowadays women can also be sporting a hair tattoo design, they cut their hair really short and get a feminine design done over their ears or back of the head. Delicate hair tattoo designs look good on women but only a few can pull them off. Here are some designs for women

Flower
The most popular flower tattoo designs are the rose and lily flower designs. The tattoo meaning also depends on the color you use for your hair tattoo design. Red rose signifies love while a yellow rose symbolizes friendship. Its the same with the lily design a pink lily is for wealth and orange one is for hatred.

Symbols
The use of Kanji symbols is quiet popular with teenage girls, guess its the mystery of the orient which attracts them to these symbols. Other symbol which is popular with girls is the Yin and Yang along with the Celtic cross. Other imaginary symmetrical patterns also look good and will give you a punk rock chic look that will have every one around you envious.

Hair tattoo designs are not that easy to make you will have to go to a good artists who uses the right equipment that will allow the creation of intricate designs. The cost of a hair tattoo depends on the pattern that you have selected and the quality of the artist.