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It’s a particularly effective concept in shaping forest, landscape, and wave tattoo designs. Some of the most widespread circle tattoo designs incorporate the shape as a border or frame to contain the central theme of the image. They are also hugely popular with tattoo collectors that love using a circular geometric shape created by alternating black ink and negative space. In tribal cultures – such as Polynesian tattoos or older cultures of South East Asia and the Indian subcontinent – they represent strength and courage or are part of a wider geometric pattern that’s important to symbolic themes such as the traditional balance between life and death.Īt other times an armband black circle tattoo can be most effective in covering up old or poorly drawn tattoo pieces, such as barbed wire or poorly drawn Celtic knotwork.
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The black tattooed armband or thick line tattoo allows the person to remember their loss through acknowledging the body art representing their memory. The solid armband tattoo style traditionally pays tribute to a lost loved one, in the same vein that black armbands are worn by athletes memorializing the death of a club great or personally important figure.