Posted: 12/29/2008
Here is another installment of our Question and Answer Posts on tattoos.%uFFFD The question today is from a young girl.%uFFFD She wants to get a tattoo with her sister that represents or says 'Friendship'.
Here is what she wrote:
'me and my sister want to get matching tattoos that say friendship we were thinking of getting it in chinese characters on our wrist
do you have any other ideas or other characters that mean friendship...thanks '
My first response is to take your time and dont rush into getting the tattoo.%uFFFD If you are not sure what you want yet then you probably are not ready for the tattoo.%uFFFD So here are some ideas that might work for a beautiful freindship tattoo.
Well, honestly it is important to pick something that is meaningful tot he both of you.%uFFFD Since no one on this site knows that much about you both it is kind of hard to answer the question.%uFFFD Tattoos are very personal and should say something about the person wearing them.
With all of that said I would suggest you take your time in getting the tattoo.%uFFFD Some of the best tattoos that people love forever are the ones that took time to dream up, design and get tattooed.%uFFFD The ones people end up hating are the ones they got with their buddies or friends on a drunken night out on a whim.%uFFFD So don't decide on a whim or because some message at Yahoo answers.%uFFFD Instead take time to identify what is special about your friendship.%uFFFD Is is the trust between you two'%uFFFD Do you have some similar interests that could form a tattoo design'%uFFFD Again take your time and contemplate for a while.%uFFFD I can almost guarantee that when you put it on back burner in like a week or two the idea will hit you with a ton of bricks.
Here are some common tattoos that can represent friendship.
Claddagh Tattoo Design - A Celtic ring with a heart in the middle and two hands holding it.%uFFFD This is often thought of romantically to represent boyfriend and girlfriend and even has become a wedding band.%uFFFD However, the symbol also represent true friendship and it does not have to carry the sexual connotation with it.%uFFFD It could very easily work for friendship.
Sun and Moon Tattoos -%uFFFD This could also be a star and moon or any other pair of objects that are often associated together.
Yin Yang - The Chinese symbol.%uFFFD I wont go into detail as you can Google it.%uFFFD But it represent the two halves of nature and the world in one complete whole.
Ambigram Tattoo -%uFFFD These are becoming very popular right now and look incredible.%uFFFD They are two words (could be your names) that get combined together to make one word that can be read right side up or upside down.%uFFFD So for example if your names were Lucy and Anne the two names would be combined.%uFFFD Then when read one way it would say 'Lucy' and when turned upside down it would read 'Anne'.%uFFFD The names have to be no more then two letters apart.%uFFFD If your names don't work you could also do an ambigram tattoo of two important concepts to your friendship.%uFFFD Like Trust and Love or something.