14 Face Tattoos That Aren't Trashy At All

     Face tattoos have a quite a bad reputation, even among tattooed people. People tend to associate face tattoos with dropouts, criminals, and someone who is either wasted or — enough to get a face tattoo. I know it doesn’t sound very nice, but it’s true. Go over to tattoo pages on Facebook or something and click on pictures of tattooed faces and you’ll see people who “don’t get why anyone would do that to their face” and people who “appreciate face tattoos but wouldn’t get them myself”.

     Many are fine with tattoos anywhere else but most draw the line when it’s on the face. I can see the point; the face is usually the first thing you look at in a person and it’s not a comfortable experience to be talking to someone who has ‘death’ scrawled over his eyebrow. And if that doesn’t intimidate you, it’s going to be pretty difficult trying not to be too obvious as you try to stare at their face tattoos at a closer range. self”.

     The fact that there are incontestably a lot of people who get shitty face tattoos doesn’t improve the infamy of the said tattoos. People tend to get random words in shaky scripts or dollar signs or poorly done, small traditional designs on their faces. And there’s also this guy. Those are definitely not the way to go if you want to nail this face tattoo thing. What we’ll show you here are face tattoos that are actually so good that you may even want them for yourself. (Or you know, appreciate face tattoos even more. We can’t please everyone!)

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Tribal and sacred geometric designs are a good combination. They both have

Model Robbie Mills by Photographer Greg Endries

     Crowded tattooed faces are usually a mess of clashing designs and it’s rare to see something like this one which consists of better-placed tattoos and not like you let your tattoo artist eeny meeny miny moe the place where your next face tattoo should be.

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     Chin tattoos may have originated from legit tribes, most-known are the Maori. But they have been making appearances in the urban settings as more and more people opt for tattoos in tribute to various cultures.

by Dövme Modelleri

Mandalas are also a popular choice for face tattoos.

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     With the right combination, a face will look more like a blossom of some kind of unique flower, rather than a clash of inked disaster.

by Chaim Maclev

     This dotwork by artist Chaim Machlev is an example of a really well-done face tattoo. Does that look like a fuc*ing criminal to you?

by Joe Munroe

     Dotwork face tattoos look good on both men and women.

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     Why stop with the face, go crazy and get some behind-the-ear's as well!

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    This forehead design may be really big but it all the more looks some kind of spiritual art.

by Jodi

     As much as his stretched lip look painful, it goes well with his geometric chin tattoo.

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     This may merely be a personal opinion but the arrangements of the tattoos on his face, even down to his neck and chest is like a gallery, carefully curated. It’s also difficult to pull off eyebrow tattoos, so props to him on this one.