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A best friend tattoo is a great way to show each other a lot of love. Keep in mind that we will be going over some seriously badass designs.
For one, best friends are very important in ways that many folks just can’t understand. Keeping these ties going year after year can need a little boost. In the friendship department there can be a “tug-and-pull” type of relationship, though, there are new ways to find answers to this age old question.
Recognizing that you are two totally different people brought together by a common bond will make choosing a matching tattoo that much easier. If you two have a lot in common, then this will be essentially a no brainer. Keep in mind that you can always make minor adjustments to style and color. Unravel your true friendship and show the world that you have each other’s backs.
Another popular best friend tattoo is of course the lock and key. These are symbolic of the strong bond that is only released by the other’s key. Think twice if you dare, this is one for the ages as there are tons of lock and key combinations for you to choose from in many catalogs. Don’t let time pass you by as this final example will blow your mind.
The idea of time and distance are similar in many ways. What better way to commemorate your bond than to show it with a clock. Not just any clock, but a unique image of time in relation to your relation. Your best friend most likely knows you better than most, don’t let time pass you by. Interestingly enough, there are more clocks than watches in the city.
Best friend design idea inspiration:
Most popular BFF symbols and looks: – Arrows
– Friendship knot
– Zibu symbol (Tama)
– Infinity loop
– Yin and Yang
– Initials
– Single word (Divided into two sections)
– Sun and moon
– Flying birds, doves, cranes, etc.
– Blackwork and black ink outline symbols
– Smiley faces
– Butterflies
– Hearts
– Flying paper airplanes
– Origami
– Pinky promise
– Creation of Adam
– Key and keyhole
– Angel wings
– Animals (Pandas, dinosaurs, elephants, etc.)
– Retro cartoon characters
– Avocado and pit
– Feathers
– Koi fish
– Bacon and Egg
– Broken heart
– Quotes and sayings
– Tiny symbols (Thunder bolt, waves, etc.)
– Flowers, bouquets and wreaths
– Puzzle pieces
– Thumb and fingerprints
– Congruence symbol
– Anchors
– Lotus flower and matching mandala
– Meaningful numbers
Sometimes a best friend is the perfect person to always remind you to “stay weird”. They can be the one that confides in you all the weirdness you both feel at different moments in your life. And perhaps one of the things that you find common together is your secret that aliens do in fact exist.
This is a playful set of best friend tattoos. Who doesn’t get totally charmed by the friendship between Sponge Bob and Patrick the starfish? They are such a comical duo that you might even share the love of this television show with your best friend too.
Each wearing a half of an avocado is a cute idea for best friend tattoos. One needs to keep the pit of course to make the pair of halves a whole. Who will keep that half? Is one of you the filling up what the other lacks? You will have to make that decision with your bestie.
Sharing the same simple image can mean a lot between best friends. An ankle is a cute spot to add a best friend tattoo. Choose something that is common between you to make that perfect image choice because you will be sharing it forever, just like your friendship.
Tattoos with messages is a great design idea option for friend tattoos. You each bring a strength to the other. Maybe one of you is a good listener and the other brings comedy. Find your strengths together and choose a special location to each get your best friend tattoo.
Butterflies are a cute duo for designing best friend tattoos. Even using the number two for each of you can be a special addition. Demonstrating the sharing of two tattoos between the two of you. The possibilities are endless. I love the location of these tattoos because it would be a fun surprise to notice on two friends standing next to each other.
Roses are a good feminine choice for friend tattoos. They are great even if the love between you isn’t romantic. Roses symbolize all kinds of love from romantic to friendship. Sharing a rose with your best friend is a sweet image to share between yourselves.
Most of our best friends have such a deep connection that they are more our soulmates than anyone else could ever be. Using such strong words between the two of you in your tattoo design can cement that idea into your relationship. Here we see two very connected Soul Sister tattoos with beautiful poppies.
Sometimes you are so lucky that you have two best friends! Celebrate that joy with a tiny cartoon face from your favorite cartoon show. Best friend tattoo ideas are a really fun way to solidify your relationships with each other.
Maybe you have one special activity you always enjoy with your best friend. Perhaps spending time in deep conversation and drinking tea together is something you spend a lot of time doing. Use those moments and special activities to create a design that will show that special activity bond you have together.
These dainty crescent moon best friend tattoos say a lot with very little. They are coordinating, one is solid and one is a line tattoo, and they seem to have the effect of a yin and yang when you see them side by side. You can choose something so small that it has a powerful impact in the tattoo design.
It looks like these three best friends must share the same passion for ocean life. Celebrate that BFF idea with different imagery. Best friend tattoos don’t need to match to demonstrate your love of each other. You can also celebrate your differences with cute, individual designs.
Add names and birthdates in your best friend tattoo designs. Here we see sisters celebrating their love of each other through nicknames and birthdays. If you wear the tattoos in the same locations, when you are together you will be reminded of the love and friendship you share seeing each other’s tattoo.
Sharing your love of dinosaurs is a cute best friend tattoo idea. You probably have different favorites and keeping the design style the same with different images is a sweet way to commemorate your friendship and honoring of different personalities and qualities. And you don’t have to choose the same location for the tattoos. It’s a cute idea but not necessary.
Dotwork tattooing has become very popular among women these days. Sharing dotwork between yourself and your friends can be a sweet and mysterious way to go with best friend tattoos. Each time you see your dotwork, you will be reminded of that sweet bond you share in your relationships and your tattoos.
Hearts are a sweet way to symbolize your friendships. Wearing them in the same place so they are together visually when you are with your best friend is a fun and playful thing to share with each other. Each of you wearing a pair of hearts can show the love when you aren’t together.
Using a simple phrase such as “one of two” in your shared best friend tattoos is a sentimental message. Using different and opposite colors in the sun and moon helps make them a matching pair of tattoos. We always have our differences and changing the design coloring slightly alludes to that fact.
If your best friend lives in a place only accessible by air travel, airplanes in flight are a great way to display this in your coordinating tattoos. Hopefully you both love to fly and can see each other on a regular occasion. If that time is sparing, remind yourselves of your deep friendship with sentimental tattoos.
Sharing a delicate line drawn bouquet of flowers between two best friends is a lovely image. If you each choose a favorite flower, that is a design already. Choosing the same or opposite arm for the tattoo work is sweet so that you can display them together when you are spending time together.
Birds in flight are a popular image to share between best friends. If you each wear two, which signifies each other when you are not together. And when you are together, you have an amazing set of tattoos that match between the two of you. An inner wrist is a popular choice for best friend tattoos.
Some best friends share a bond for life. It can be really sweet to get matching tattoos to signify this friendship. Using a special word between you like “fearless” might be a really deep significant thing or memory that bonds you both for life. Celebrate that with a beautiful shared flower design.
Best friend tattoos can be really playful and mean even more when we are together. Using fun phrases, here we see “hakuna” and “matata”, on two different people means even more when we stand side by side. Remind each other of your friend with your tattoo designs when you cannot be together.
Infinity symbols and hearts can be a great theme for your best friend tattoo designs. Combined here we them used in a really cool image to share between two people. The use of color can be an important element to share with your best friend tattoo designs.
Best friend tattoos are a popular new trend. Choosing images that reflect each other in their meaning and design don’t have to match exactly to convey the reason you each got a best friend tattoo. Celebrate your differences through the slightly different designs you share together.
Pinkie swears are important between best friends. This is a really fun set of friend tattoos complete with pinkie swears and framed by daisies below. Remind yourself not to tell your friends secrets with this playful tattoo design.
Airplanes, hearts and flowers can be meaningful imagery to incorporate into best friend tattoo design. Airplanes are significant if you have to travel to see each other or you love to go out traveling with your best friend. Either way, you are both connected through your love of each other signified by a heart tattoo.
Airplanes are playful and popular to symbolize traveling with or to your best friend. Best friend tattoo designs can incorporate simple messages and when you are standing next to each other with a matching tattoo on your friend’s wrist, you will both be reminded of your special bond.
Best friend tattoos might share common imagery and use each friend’s favorite color. You could choose images that mean a lot to the two or three of you to share in your designs. Place them in a commonplace like the inner wrist so that you see them together when you are side by side. Getting a best friend tattoo is a big deal and fun memory so you want to be reminded of that when you are with each other.
Winged creatures can be a popular best friend tattoo design. Here we see a moth and a butterfly in this set of friend tattoos. Maybe one of you loves the daytime and the other the night. Signify this in your coordinating best friend tattoos. Placed on the wrist, you will see it often.
Sweet and dainty flowers can be added as matching sets for best friend tattoos. Seen here on the shoulder, this is a nice place to wear matching tattoos between friends. Using light colors and dainty lines give a sweetness to the design. This might be the best way to display your matching tattoos if you both bring a special sweetness to each other’s lives.
Sometimes best friends share the love of a cartoon together such as PowerPuff Girls. This can be used as a tiny and cute best friend tattoo to display your love of each other, not to mention your superhero activities. The inner wrist is a perfect place for you all to carry the coordinating images. When you go out for coffee, the tattoos will be right there reminding each of you about your special friendships.
If you share something common with your best friend like a love of cats, magic and Halloween, large best friend tattoos with matching images can be the best route for your designs. Seen here in the matching place of the left shoulder on each woman, this is a classic matching friend tattoo design element.
I love these best friend message tattoos. No matter what and no matter where have hefty meaning and make great phrases to share between the two of you. You are each other’s sun and moon so why not tattoo that for life on your forearm or lower leg? You both love tattoos as well after all.
Ohana is the Hawaiian word for family and is symbolic of love and loyalty. Here we see flowers combined with these ohana best friend tattoos. A simple word can hold a lot of meaning and be useful in simple best friend tattoo design. I love how the word becomes the flower like its stem.
These are really playful images to share between best friends. Sharing a love of tea and deep conversation and love, maybe even flowers, seem to come across in this sweet and humorous image. Switching the direction so that each one of you has an opposite is a sweet way to share a friend tattoo.
Here we see the use of the word “ohana” again. Using the word like a stem for the single rose is a fun design element. Letting each friend choose their color is a sweet way to go since we all have our favorite colors and reasons for choosing them in tattoo designs.
The word sister is a powerful one. We use it between our familial sisters as well as our friend sisters. It shares a strength between us when we use this strong word. Let your best friend choose their favorite flower to wear, or exchange favorites and wear each other’s favorite instead!
Most of us have special ties to the universe and space. Sharing a common place, such as Outer Space for your theme, and each friend choosing their special design element such as a planet or a rocket, still brings a combination of ideas to your best friend tattoos. A simple black line tattoo can hold a lot of meaning when done on two friends.
Magic wands are a fun idea to incorporate into best friend tattoos. You bring the magic for one another in your relationship. Wearing a coordinating wand on each other’s bodies can be a strong magical connection between the two of you.
Sometimes your best friend is actually three best friends! Choose a sweet and popular location and get matching heart tattoos to show your connection when you are together and when you are apart. Best friend tattoos can be a sweet daily reminder of each other when you cannot be together.
