Chopper Tattoo is a tattoo design website with a database of just under 4000 tattoo’s. It’s sole purpose is to help you choose a design for your next tattoo.
You can download and print as many designs as you like, and can combine different designs to make your own custom tattoo.
There are many different tattoo categories to choose from in the membership area of Chopper Tattoo. Once you’ve found a design you like, simply select it and you can print it out to take to the tattoo parlor of your choosing.
Chopper Tattoo Membership Costs Chopper Tattoo memberships are priced reasonably. One of the things that I liked about Chopper Tattoo was it’s flexible membership choices. You have the following membership choices when joining Chopper Tattoo:
1 Month - $19.95
2 Months - $24.95
Lifetime - $34
Obviously if you are only planning on getting one tattoo in your lifetime the 1 month membership makes sense. For those of you that think you will get multiple tattoo’s I’d recommend dishing out the extra $14 for the lifetime membership.
What I liked About Chopper Tattoo Initially I was impressed with the ease of use of the members area of the website. It’s a really simple layout, and you don’t have to be a computer nerd to find your tattoo design quickly. The selection of tattoo designs Chopper Tattoo has is also impressive. At the time of this review they had about 3800 designs in a wide variety of categories (to see the categories, visit their website).
Chopper Tattoo “Bonuses” Chopper Tattoo throws in the following three “bonuses” with your membership:
Games - In case you get sick of searching for a tattoo design there is a section with eight games that you can play.
Music Downloads - Apparently along with your membership to Chopper Tattoo, you also have free access to MP3Suite.com. I’m not familiar with this site, but it does appear to have free MP3 downloads.
Tattoo Lettering - This is just a link to a website with various fonts. This could be helpful if you are looking for letters in your tattoo’s, but these free font sites are all over Google if you search.
Refund Policy Chopper Tattoo has a 60 day 100% no questions asked refund policy.
The Rose has the same symbolic meaning as the Lotus does in the East: love, particularly love that is pure. The Ancient Greeks believed the rose was originally white in color. It turned to red when the goddess of love, Aphrodite, pricked herself with one of its thorns and bled on the blossom.
The Rose Tattoo and Beauty - The most common meaning behind the rose tattoo is the representation of beauty. Many rose tattoo lovers believe the rose represents both inner and outer beauty. When thorns are present on the image, it means the person does not place a great deal of emphasis on outer beauty. For others, the rose image refers to everlasting beauty, with the thorn meaning you can look but you can’t touch.
Eagle tattoos can be signs of strength, symbols of patriotism, or just beautiful art. Eagles usually like to live in tall trees or on high cliffs, and they’re often spotted soaring high above the ground. Because of this, many people think of them as independent, strong, and fearless. Some eagles defend their territory by fighting in mid-air, refusing to back down when invaders approach.
Eagles have extraordinarily sharp vision. Some are able to spot small animals as much as two miles away. Eagle tattoos may show the wearer’s appreciation for this quality: the eagle sees everything, misses nothing.
In western mythology the dragon is usually associated with evil and foul deeds.vBut in China and other parts of Asia the dragon is a divine animal associated with good fortune, especially bumper harvests, and great power wielded in defense of the weak.
The dragon is also one of the panoply of the Chinese horoscope. Those born under the sign of the dragon are passionate, innovative and very self-assured.
In Chinese culture the dragon is a symbol of bountiful harvests. The dragon is also a powerful protector. The black dragon has been used as a symbol by various Chinese organizations and societies and also by at least one famous Japanese nationalist society formed at the turn of the last century.
Black dragon tattoo designs are usually rendered in the Chinese rather than the western manner and if you decide to ink a black dragon you should be sure that your design is in the Asian style and not the western unless you want to be associated with evil deeds.
Bird tattoos are tied to some of the most profound meanings in the tattoo world. Since the dawn of time, and almost universally across all cultures worldwide, the bird has symbolized the human spirit or soul, and is frequently connected to the divine. Because birds travel in the air, they were thought to commune directly with the gods, and were often viewed as the guides which carried spirits of the dead to the heavens.
In ancient lore, birds often accompanied Heroes on their quests to defeat villains, monsters, and dragons. The bird could fly on ahead and forewarn the hero of impending danger (giving rise to the popular phrase, “a little bird told me”). Birds are frequently associated with magic, the supernatural, or with religion. Images of birds have been found everywhere, from hovering over mummies in Egyptian crypts to adorning Arapaho Indian Ghost Dance costumes. It is no surprise that our Judeo- Christian depictions of angels and cherubs include bird-like wings. With rare exceptions, the image of the bird is a positive and uplifting symbol.
The tribal designs widely used and applied nowadays go back to the black, silhouette like and geometric tatau ornaments of the Polynesians. It was also tribal tattoos the sailors brought home to Europe, from their first journeys to Tahiti, before the influences of the sailors with maritime designs, the today called traditional tattoos, replaced the native motives.
The release of Tattoo Time, a tattoo magazine founded in 1982 by the American innovator Don Ed Hardy and Leo Zulueta started an amazing tribal tattoo boom. The title of the first issue was "New Tribalism" and it features native tattoos from Samoa and Borneo. From there on the tattoo scene re-discovered tribal designs as a tattoo style. Not only that, the black and gently swinging style of tribal weakened the negative associations made with tattoos in the years before. Only after half a year the black designs were among the most popular motive choices and tribal is still one of the most popular tattoo styles today.
There are a lot of tattoo artists who refuse to tattoo simple tribal because of the widely spread believe a tribal is not very challenging for the artist. This is not true. Tribal patterns should always be applied correctly, along the musculature and single muscle parts of the body and should come across as a grown part of the body. The coloring should also be very even and this is not the easiest to do.