Ear Tattoos - Tattoos behind ears
By LeonJane
Imagine this...
You are sitting around your retirement home common room. You have drool hanging from your lower lip as you are waiting for Cecile to make her move in the card game that you have been playing for the last four days. It seems to be going nowhere, and you really don’t care. You’ve lost interest and your frustration died two days ago. Then Cecile tells you, “I say Arthur, you seem to have a grease stain on your ear!”
“Grease bloody stain, that is my ear tattoo that I’ve had for the last fifty years!” you reply. You wouldn’t have minded Cecile letting you know, but it was the sixth time today that she has. “Off to the kitchen to find a butter knife to lop my ear off,” you think to yourself.
Ear tattoos are a great tattoo idea if you want to get a tattoo that makes a statement, by getting noticed, without getting a tattoo directly on your face.
Also there are many different locations within and around the ear to get your tattoo placed. You can go for a full on ear makeover and get a tattoo that covers your whole ear. You can just get a tattoo on your earlobe or get a tattoo your neck behind your ear lobe. An ear tattoo just in the flat of the upper ear rim is also a popular ear tattoo location. The combinations and possibilities or ear tattoo’s are endless and are only limited by your imagination.
Ear tattoos are the easiest tattoo’s to remove if you become bored with your tattoo. You may have thought the ear tattoo was cool in your twenties but by the time you hit middle age you might be thinking it’s time to get rid of that crazy ear tattoo design. So the simplest way for ear tattoo removal is to lop off your ears! Come on, Vincent Van Gogh lopped off his own ears as did Mark Chopper Reid, so it should not be that difficult. There goes your ear tattoo problem!
Anyhow, if you do want to get and ear tattoo and are after a unique ear tattoo design then take a look at the following ear tattoo gallery for examples. And remember that if you can’t decide on a tattoo design that suits you then ask yourself, “Should I get that tattoo?”.
First hand ear tatto experience...
Comment supplied by Amanda, "So I got a tattoo behind my ear last night, the pain minimum. Seriously I have average pain tolerance. After hearing all these stories about the pain that it is the worst place to get a tat, that is crap. My wrist and calf hurt worse then behind the ear. You feel mostly the vibration from the tat gun so be prepared for a slight head ache. when it gets closer to the bone its more like a constant mosquito biting you, a slight burn and pinch feeling. The annoying part of after the tattoo is the itching from healing, not that bad just enough to be irksome. So for all those nervous about behind the ear, let the adrenalin ride you and suck on a hard candy to keep your sugars up, eat before hand protein. Now you are ready for the tat, keep a soda by you for any tat and seriously suck on hard candy, It keeps your mind busy and helps with sugar levels. Oh and a big thing build your adrenalin up once, and then release it before the tattoo and while at home. Helps with being dizzy and fainting."
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Comments
Great info and interesting - my ear is hurting though just thinking about it - ha ha
Thanks Micky Dee, yes an experienced tattoo artist would be a must for an ear tattoo, otherwise your ear might blow up due to infection or worse a nerve could be hit that affects your facial muscles!
Yeah akirchner, I couldn't imagine getting an ear tattoo myself, the pain must be intense for your poor lugholes (ears).
I can't think of anything worse!
And I think it would be very painful as well Gypsy Willow, thanks for your comment.
Just gotten a treble clef tattooed behind my right ear today and no...it didn't hurt as badly as I thought it would. It rather tickled....:D
So I got a tattoo behind my ear last night, the pain minimum. Seriously I have average pain tolerance. After hearing all these stories about the pain that it is the worst place to get a tat, that is crap. My wrist and calf hurt worse then behind the ear. You feel mostly the vibration from the tat gun so be prepared for a slight head ache. when it gets closer to the bone its more like a constant mosquito biting you, a slight burn and pinch feeling. The annoying part of after the tattoo is the itching from healing, not that bad just enough to be irksome. So for all those nervous about behind the ear, let the adrenalin ride you and suck on a hard candy to keep your sugars up, eat before hand protein. Now you are ready for the tat, keep a soda by you for any tat and seriously suck on hard candy, It keeps your mind busy and helps with sugar levels. Oh and a big thing build your adrenalin up once, and then release it before the tattoo and while at home. Helps with being dizzy and fainting.
@Sy, I've seen a treble clef behind the ear, I saw a girl getting one on an overseas vacation. It looked raised and red when she got it done, I guess it's sensitive skin behind the ear, but it looked cool afterwards!
@Amanda, thanks for your experience, I am glad you wrote this in a comment and it will help with others thinking of getting an ear tattoo.
Micky Dee 2 years ago
I do like some of the ear tattoos. Folks should go to the very experienced tattoo artists. They are licensed here in NC. Thanks