Nothing Says Tattoo Like a Cross Tattoo!

Tattoos continue to be a growing practice by a large number of people in a wide age range. Taking into account all ages, about 15 percent of all males in America sport tattoos, and a surprising 13 percent of all women.

I would have thought the male population would have been much higher than women, but that has really started to change as a growing number of female celebrities and female tattoo stars like Kat Von D bring the practice more mainstream for women.

Anyway, in this article I want to highlight an increasingly popular subset of tattoos - the cross tattoo.

What's amazing about the cross tattoo, is it is worn for a variety of reasons not connected to each other, but which together make it one of the more popular requests to have inked into a body.

 For example, there can be Christian cross tattoos, celtic, goth and tribal, among others.

They can be displayed across all parts of the body for different effects too. I've seen some across the entire upper back, others on the upper shoulder area, and still others on the chest. There are some on the lower back and some on the outer bicep.

In other words, if there's a piece of skin available, there's probably been a cross tattoo put there - whether male or female.

It's astounding to see such a simple object that represents so much to different people take it in one art form and be able to make an almost limitless number of creations from it.

To me, if there was that type of creativity of design across a number of other business sectors, we would see a large amount of businesses thriving, rather than floundering from year to year.

My favorite cross tattoos are 3D crosses, which I've included one of my personal favorites in a photo below.

I'll stop here before I get too long-winded and say too much. After all, if there's one thing cross tattoos and other tattoos are for - it's to visually enjoy them.

I've included a number of them here for you get your visual tattoo fix for the day. Enjoy!

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Lord of the Rings Tattoos 

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Extraordinary and Outrageous Skull Tattoos

The Mystique of the Celtic Tattoo 

Dragon Tattoos Breathing Fire As Most Popular Tattoo 

Going Tribal with Tattoos 

Kat Von D | Taking Tattooing to a Whole New Level 

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