Couple Tattoos

Classic Couple Tattoos

There are many traditional and nontraditional ways to show you love someone. The mutual tattoo used to be one of the most rebellious, but these days, matching designs are not hard to spot and they no longer carry the heavy stigma they once did. Recently, traditional artwork has become the choice of many couples. With the resurrection of Sailor Jerry tattoo designs and other classic Americana symbols, including the rose, the skull and crossbones, the classic red heart with the arrow and even bird tattoos such as sparrows.

What Do Couples Tattoos Say?

The most basic couples tattoo will simply have the name of the beloved. Other love tattoos will include:

• The birthday of the tattooed’s counterpart
• A saying they enjoy together, such as “Love Conquers All”
• Lyrics from “our” song
• A symbol of the love they have found, such as Kanji tattoos with meanings such as “Love,” “Adoration” or “Soulmate”

Heart with child's name and birthdate.

What About the Kids?

Sometimes, when couples are entering into a relationship where one or both parties have children a loving display of the child or children’s names may be incorporated into the design. Additionally, as couples have children they may choose to add on the names of the new arrivals onto existing couples tattoos.

Celebrities With Couples Tattoos

Throughout the years we have seen Hollywood’s hottest couples proclaim their undying love with matching tattoos. Check out these celebrities with tattoos proclaiming their undying love:

• Angelina and Billy Bob Thorton got each other’s names tattooed on their arms. Failed Relationship
• Britney Spears and Kevin Federline got matching dice tattoos following their private wedding. Failed Relationship
• Eddie Murphy and Mel B (Scary Spice) have each tattooed the name of the other on their bods. Mel’s is on her hipbone and Eddie’s has not been officially documented yet. Failed Relationship
• Johnny Depp once had “Winona Forver” tattooed on his upper arm; he has since reworked it to read “Wino Forever.” Failed Relationship
• Rap diva Eve and her man, Stevie J. have matching tattoos. His says “Sleazy” and hers reads “Sleazy’s Girl.”
• Dean McDermott has “Truly Madly Deeply Tori” tattooed on his arm in honor of his lady, Tori Spelling. McDermott also has a portrait of Tori inked on his left arm.
• David Beckham and wife Victoria (Posh Spice) have matching tattoos that read “I am my beloved’s, my beloved is mine’’ in Hebrew. David also has Victoria’s name tattooed in Hindu on his inner arm while Victoria has David’s initials inked on her wrist.
• Marc Anthony recently had “Jennifer” tattooed on the inside of his wrist. Critics poke fun — after all, he is her third husband.

Proceed With Caution

If you have made your choice then you will not be influenced by friends and family. That does not make you or them right or wrong. The bottom line is that you want this ink and so does your partner. So get it! But go into these kinds of tattoos with open eyes.

1. Try to choose a symbol that you both like rather than simply inking names. This way, if things don’t pan out the way you thought they would, you will always have that symbol with you as a reminder of that time in your life, but you won’t have to worry about the embarrassment or expense involved with removing a name.
2. Pick a saying or quote that defines what is unique to your partnership
3. Pick animal tattoos that express the nature of your romance — a butterfly, a phoenix tattoo, a lovebird or any other animal that has special significance to the two of you.
4. If you simply must use formal birthnames, consider inking them in another language, such as Japanese, Hindu or Hebrew.
5. Consider creating your own design. A tribal angel holding a heart, a traditional pinup girl and matching soldier, or some other form of “his and hers” tattoos.

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