4. Colorful Friend Tattoos

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For some people there just is no other way to accurately capture their style and sensibilities than with the use of vibrant colors. The friendship tattoos in this gallery demonstrate a variety of styles and approaches, although they all utilize bright and colorful palettes to help their subject matter pop. Whether it’s a sunset scene or a happy little cactus, sometimes color is the only way to go.

5. Food Friendship Ink

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Once again we see people looking to shared experiences to inform the designs they create for their matching best friend tattoos. The food we share and the drinks we toast are some of the most profound ways we connect with our friends and family and this makes food tattoos the perfect way to permanently commemorate lifelong friendships.

From a cute tattoo of pizza and cake applied in bright colors, to black line work broccoli whose hatch shading evokes images of lithographs, they food we share brings us together.

6. Group of Friends

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Friendships aren’t limited to pairs. In fact, when it comes to the people that make you smile, the more the merrier. That’s why some people choose to get a matching friendship tattoo with a group, letting everyone they meet know that there is no breaking up this crew.