The calf use to be one of the last places people thought of for their tattoos, but these days people recognize that there are quite a few designs that look pretty amazing as calf tattoos. Most are smaller designs, but they can be just as meaningful as large arm, back, or chest tattoos. Below you will find out the types of designs that work great as calf tats and then you can decide if this is the type of tattoo that you should get.

Circular designs seem to be the best ones for the calf area since they look so natural in that area and they give people a unique way of showing off some of the more common designs. And what’s great is that even if you don’t have a perfectly circular image in mind, you can usually make that image fit into a circular design just by tweaking it a little bit or fitting it inside of something with that shape. What we’re saying is that just about any tattoo that you have in mind can be made into a nice calf tattoo, though it’s definitely true that some look more natural in that area than others.

One type of calf tattoo design that is shooting up the ranks these days is the portrait tattoo, both of humans and of animals. It used to be that portraits were always on the chest, back or arm, but the calf works quite well since you can put the portrait inside of a nice oval or circular frame. You don’t even have to add a frame into a portrait of an animal since the calf muscle itself can make the snout and other parts of its face push out nicely.

Symbols are also quite popular as calf tattoos since they often fit in this area better than in other places on the body. For example, you could easily put a cross tattoo on your calf, having the horizontal part going across your calf. If you were looking to get a classic symbol like the heart or the anchor tattoo, the calf can give you a unique place to put it on your body so it doesn’t look like many of the other symbol tattoos that people have.