20 Phenomenal Sleeve Tattoos For Men & Women

Sleeve tattoos are pieces of body art covering the arms or legs, coming in different sizes  - full sleeve covers entire legs or arms, half-sleeve covers a half and there can be also smaller tattoos like quarter sleeves resembling with shirt sleeves. These tattoos can be designed like already like a full sleeves or formed of smaller tattoos connected together, so if you are thinking about getting a sleeve, consider getting a smaller tattoo and later embrace it in a sleeve, so you don’t have to get it all at once.

Nowadays arm sleeve tattoos have stable place at the top of tattoo popularity rankings, and many people who are not inked all around their bodies, choose to have half-sleeve covering arm from shoulder to elbow - “ it’s easy to hide it by clothes in some specific situations where you know you might face negative attitude (unfortunately, it still exists) to this kind of body art.

Everything can be included in this kind of tattoo - “ from Biblical creatures to movie stars, ornaments from around the world and symbols of all kinds of values, but the first version of sleeves is tribal half sleeve tattoos. Nowadays people get tribal tattoos - “ linear abstract tattoos - as beautiful body decorations without any other specific meaning, but actually this is a very old form of tattoos originating from ancient tribes around the world. These tattoos were designed specifically for each person to show their status or adherence, for healing or masking purposes.

Sleeve design options are enormous and if you have a good collaboration between you and your tattoo artist you can get something to wear proudly. Small tattoo mistakes can be corrected by tattoo removal or tattooing over, with sleeve tattoos it’s pretty difficult - “ it’s a big tattoo, so having a good tattoo artist in this case is essential.