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The chest tattoo, with its proximity to the heart, can also represent romance, love and devotion. Adorning the beating heart just below the surface, the chest tattoo is a measure of depth, love and of confidence.
Not merely a symbol, but a statement. The chest tattoo on a woman suggests a certain allure and mystery. More often the not, the artwork is covered, so that its beauty is only shared with the ones special enough to enjoy that part of her body.
Women’s chests often serve as the canvas onto which a life and a love is projected. The name of a cherished child or the face of a beloved grandparent.
The name of the one true love, carefully etched onto the breastplate, coming alive with every beat of the heart. For women, the chest tattoo is more than just art.
Each swirl and flourish represents life. Each color represents power. Each line, whether soft and curvy or hard and angular represents femininity.
It represents love, and nurturing and tears of joy. The chest tattoo itself represents birth. From mere ink and the artist’s craftsmanship emerges something beautiful to be worn for a lifetime.
The woman’s chest tattoo represents a work of art to be cherished, that exists in a special place accessible to only the fortunate few. For the woman who wants to create a statement that evokes strong emotion, the chest tattoo is the symbol.
An image that can capture love, tears, joy, anguish, accomplishment and connection, there is no more powerful way to express this than with a chest tattoo.
Here is a beautiful women’s chest tattoo design idea complete with a heart lock symbolizing the woman’s actual beating heart. There is only key to this heart. Florals and fauna with butterflies and golden metals are all ornately adding to this chest tattoo. This can be revealed under a sweetheart necklined top or dress or only exposed to someone most precious to her heart.
Between the breasts is a sacred place to wear a feminine chest tattoo. This simple black line design uses a modern style and is delicately finished with geometric shapes. The use of lilies refers to fertility and purity and is a very feminine image to choose.
If you have a deep love of nature, a nice place to wear a tattoo of this size and boldness is the chest. The use of color and the bold strokes in the design look like an actual painting. Flowers and birds might be as dear to your heart as the flowers in your garden.
The use of this ornately decorated skull with mandala like imagery seems to refer to immortality. The placement on the throat and chest shows the importance and power of this image. This chest tattoo will be exposed most of the time demonstrating the woman’s power to show her true spirit and not cover up the beauty she adds to her body.
This is a powerful full torso chest tattoo for girls. The use of dreamcatchers and cow skulls give a strong sense of spirituality and the power of dreams. The color palette is beautifully finished with the imagery and has an overall softness to the image. Only parts of this tattoo will be on display when you are clothed and the other intimate lower parts of the image on display when you are not.
This bird of rainbow colors frames out the throat and neckline on this woman. A chest tattoo of a bird in flight gives the ideas of freedom, expression, and creativity. The shape of the bird along the collarbone also frames out the neck like an actual necklace and could be adorned with a beautiful piece of jewelry but certainly doesn’t need it.
Framing the collarbone with roses is a really feminine and pretty way to go with a chest tattoo. Roses of black line with subtle shading will be a lovely silhouette on a summery day. Roses are popular because they symbolize love, passion and romance.
Adding imagery into a rose framed collarbone and neckline on a chest tattoo can be extra cool. We see the faces of two women along her neckline seemingly swarming up to her face in a soft gesture of embrace and love. These faces seem to be her guiding spirits to hold her up and keep her power strong.
Keys and hearts are very popular for women’s chest tattoos hiding the intimacy of your own feelings right below the surface of clothing until you are ready to expose them to those dearest to you. These ornate designs frame out the breasts and are dripping with jewels and vines. A simple black color tattoo is a sultry way to go with chest designs.
Framing the collarbone with roses is a very popular chest tattoo design idea. Wearing roses symbolizes beauty and passion. Not limited to ideas of romance, roses are also gorgeously feminine symbols of power and strength. These will look beautiful with a dropped neckline on clothing items.
Wearing your favorite large flower boldly across your chest can be a beautiful option. Frame out the neckline with accentuating vines and leaves. This tattoo could have color or be just as effective only keeping it limited to the use of black ink. Either way the design is sweet and sultry.
This is an interesting girl’s chest tattoo with imagery of a full moon, a crescent moon, and a large flower. The bottom of the tattoo looks like an exploding star of light rays. Keep the color palette simple to put all of the importance on the image instead of the color.
Hiding roses beneath your clothing in chest tattoos is a popular design idea. Keeping what is most precious out of sight is important so as not to expose too much on the outside. As women, we often only share the deepest part of ourselves and our bodies with those closest to us. Notice how this design still frames out the body and has a nice balance to the shape.
In this complex chest tattoo design for women we see a jeweled heart seemingly dripping a large drop of blood. Hearts and blood are often used together in imagery to show the strength of our hearts to bleed with emotions. The drop of blood almost looks like a keyhole as well. Framing this with large plump roses on either side, this is a symmetrical design.
Symmetry in chest tattoo work is extremely popular. This also works well being placed over, around or below breasts. You could choose to play with a little asymmetry through you color choices as seen here with the pink and purple flowers at either side. This tattoo will look lovely peeking out from under your clothing as the neckline will often be exposed.
I love this skeletal hands design forming a heart with its fingertips. This is a popular action between friends, family and even rockstars. We love to use this sign language to say I love you. This skeleton is saying I love you without you using your own hands making it a very playful and well thought out tattoo design.
Female chest tattoos don’t have to focus on the central chest. A simple and sweet little bouquet is a pretty tattoo to add some feminine imagery to your chest. I like the placement coming off of the shoulder and onto the upper chest. The success of this image is also in the pretty color palette of red, green and white.
Girl’s neckline chest tattoos are becoming very popular. The idea of framing your chest with florals and sweet colors works well with most wardrobe choices. Letting flowers peek out at on your upper chest can take the place of wearing necklaces and larger jewelry but also combine nicely with them should you choose to do so.
Though symmetry is often used, here we see a delicate balance of flowers and a bumblebee that are slightly different on each side. This is a lovely feminine and very bold image to wear proudly on your chest. The use of color is nice from purples and reds to greens and oranges. A nice black outline to delineate between the flowers is a lovely detail.
As an artist and painter myself, I appreciate the abstract quality of the tattooed brush marks of color against the black dotwork at the center of the chest. Chest tattoos can be abstract and modern looking without using specific imagery. A bold black mixed with color can be a nice choice.
Wearing a crown of jewels at your chest line gives you a real look of royalty. There is a small and realistic human skull at the center and the chest is framed out in the ever so popular style of roses along the collarbone. This tattoo is bold and feminine without being too heavy or bulky.
Owls are often symbols of wisdom and intuition. Pictured here the owl is in flight and also holding a heart shaped locket in its talons. The flowers and the blue ribbon add to this lovely feminine and powerful image. The owls face will be peeking out on most occasions depending on your wardrobe.
Ravens are often associated with loss but also with insight and prophecy. Because it is a skull of a raven, perhaps this symbolizes loss on this woman. And if it does, she might only be willing to share that with someone very close to her. The red flowers on each shoulder add a beautiful color to the entire image.
Placing a butterfly and diamond on your chest can be quite meaningful. Flight is associated with freedom and creativity. Framing out the breasts with central chest tattoo images is a popular trend. Inking this in a limited color palette with only black adds the emphasis on the overall design.
Human hearts are a popular choice for women’s chest tattoos. They are our most prized possessions that keep our very bodies alive. Honoring a heart by wrapping it with flowers can show your own value of yourself and your beating heart. Because of the placement of this design, you can choose whether to show it off or not.
In this exquisite design, we see a large bumblebee eyeing honeycomb. Flowers and fungi are important to the life cycle of most or all of us. Displayed in monumental value across the chest gives ultra-importance to your own connection of nature and its precious life cycles.
Chest tattoos are popular even if their only use is to adorn and frame out the collarbone in an ornate manner. Peeking out from under a neckline on a dress looks very feminine and lovely. You can simply choose beautiful lines and shapes that only have design elements or are secretly precious to you.
Dotwork tattoos have gotten more popular. They can be used in chest tattoo designs with great success and beauty. The dotwork along the collarbone will be gorgeous to show off with your blouses or dresses without being extremely bold. The central image looks like a bit of folk art with its floral pattern.
Necklace chest tattoos are beautiful when done with intricacy. Jewels dripping across the collarbone are feminine and when combined with flowers, you have a real show stopping neck piece. Adding hearts and mandala like shapes to the design add a lot of beauty to your chest tattoo.
In this cute and ornate women’s chest tattoo idea, we see a central design that might be a mirror or a frame. The use of wings at either side allude to angels and the dripping metals and jewels at the bottom look like a chandelier of sorts between the ribcage. Using yellow and green in the image are unusual colors in tattoo design and seem to relate to royalty.
This is a cool, powerful and loaded design complete with slithering snakes, a skull, an evil snake eye, and wings at the throat. Your chest tattoo can be as unique as you are and also loaded with symbols that are most important to you and your life. Some parts of this tattoo will be covered on a normal day, but most of this will be peeking out to share with the world around you.
Wings frame out the chest in a beautiful way and look wonderful along the collarbone when you they can be seen. Wings can by symbols of our own free spirits and strengths to not limit ourselves. Tattoos in a simple and fluid black line, these wings are feminine and powerful in their imagery and placement.
This winged creature might be a bee or might be a hornet. Either way, its stinger is front and central. The image seems to be asking the viewer to not get too close. The use of the ornate circle at the center brings the focus to the central point. Framing out the sides with a partial wreath of flower design adds a sweetness to the stinging quality of the creature.
Antlers along the chest are lovely and these almost look like they have woodgrain. Wrapping them with flowers is a nice touch and most people won’t get to see the lovely skull between the breasts unless you share it with someone personally. The simple addition of red/pink adds a touch of femininity to this image by softening the tone of the skull.
Birds can be a lovely addition to any woman’s chest tattoo design. These birds on flowers and rosehips frame out the shoulders and chest in a lovely way. By using your favorite bird and flower species, you can add a lot of meaning to this highly personal area of your body. For instance, magpies are symbols of good luck and positive energy.
This beautiful chest and neck piece are dripping with floral femininity and pearls. Wrapping this image around your neckline is a lovely way to display your love of winged creatures and soft petals and blooms. A tattoo of this stature is an easy way to wrap down the images on the top of your body to your lower body. Though it takes time to get this much imagery tattooed onto your body, the end result will be worth the wait.
Floral tattoos are always popular whether you are getting them on your chest or not. They have a reputation of being connected to femininity as well as being symbolic of nature. Using individual flowers placed around the chest and neckline are a sweet way to frame out your face and collarbone.
Death’s-head hawkmoths can be a nice addition to chest tattoos. Because they can make a squeaking sound, placing one just below the throat is a good choice. This large winged creature frames out the face and chest with its beautiful symmetry. Adding pearls and flowers bring in qualities of softness and sweet images of time spent in the garden.
In this tattoo we see the placement of an empty birdcage worn just over the heart. Two birds are sitting atop the flowers at the collarbone. The dotwork in the images makes for a lovely subtle shading effect and gives dimension to the plant and animal life within the design. Choose minimal or full color to emphasize different things within your own design.
A purple diamond heart at the center of your chest shows your strength of love for those around you and for yourself and your own values. Adding large peonies to frame out the heart, this is a common way to design something lovely and elegant to wear and expose along your upper chest. Add some sparkles to increase the shine of the diamond.
