Many people choose a bloody dagger piercing a heart like a tattoo design symbolizing broken hearts and lost love.

A bloody dagger heart tattoo is often aligned with the pain of loss and grief and can be found in most flash art books at your tattoo studio.

A heart dagger design is most often for lost romantic relationships, but it can also be applied to the loss of loved ones, friends, and pets. 

The dagger, knife, and sword combined with a bleeding heart tattoo design also possesses elements of other heart ideas, such as the sacred heart, black heart, or broken heart tattoo, but without being the focus of the tattoo. 

The contrast that is created by combining these two disparate elements is also interesting and adds intellectual depth to these depictions, whether inked on a large scale or as just a small tattoo. 

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8. American Traditional Dagger Tattoo Art

Daggers have been a popular design – particularly for those with a military background – since the late 19th century. They make for some of the most provocative American traditional style pieces,

This type of artwork generally depicts a dagger that has a gleaming blade and a beautifully ornate handle.

Dagger tattoos are often split in the middle to depict stabbing, and a dagger typically appears to be stabbed through the head of a creature, a flower, a heart, or even the subject’s skin.

The many combinations make a dagger tattoo extremely versatile as a classical old-school application style.

Contemporary Dagger Tattoo Styles and Applications

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Daggers are traditionally long and thin. They work best as designs incorporated into the lower limbs, such as the shin and outer calf, or the inner and outer forearm.

Contemporary tattoo gives the design a chance to expand into areas such as the neck, the center of the back, or even small designs on fingers or feet.