Aliens in Argentina and Ninja Turtles in America: top global tattoo trends

If you’ve ever found yourself trawling through Pinterest, searching for inspiration for your next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tattoo, you, my friend, are not alone. It turns out there’s a lot of us doing it – in fact, in the US ‘ninja turtle tattoos’ is the second most searched for tattoo term on Pinterest, up +1494 per cent between December 2017 and December 2018.

And it’s not just Ninja Turtles. Pinterest has been identifying the top searches for tattoo art ideas around the globe and has compiled a list of the top three most searched tattoos from nine different countries across the continents. From ‘alien tattoos’ in Argentina and ‘Van Gogh tattoos’ in Brazil to ‘nerdy tattoos’ in the UK, the results are not always what you might expect. Sometimes, however, they are.

It might, but probably won’t surprise you to hear that people like to have tattoos from other cultures. In Brazil, ‘Nordic tattoo’ was the most searched tattoo, up by +2348 per cent, while in France ‘Thai tattoo’ came in second, up by +180 per cent. Over in Germany, meanwhile, both ‘Celtic tattoo’ (+2507 per cent) and ‘Ohana tattoo’ (a Hawaiian term meaning family) appear in the top three most-searched trends. “Meaningful tattoo” is also a top searched term, rather defeating the purpose.

See below for the full list of international tattoo trends.

ARGENTINA

• Football Crest +1084 per cent 
• Feminist tattoo +705 per cent
• Alien tattoo +300 per cent

 AUSTRALIA

• Symbolic tattoos +314 per cent
• Lip tattoos +204 per cent
• Mountains tattoo +141 per cent

 BRAZIL

• Nordic tattoo +2348 per cent
• Mechanical tattoo +1427 per cent
• Van gogh tattoo +299 per cent

 FRANCE

• Pink minimalist tattoo +410 per cent
• Thai tattoo +180 per cent
• Tattoo bracelet +111 per cent

 GERMANY

• Celtic tattoos +2507 per cent
• Meaningful tattoos +551 per cent
• Ohana-tattoo +30 per cent (family)

 JAPAN

• Moon tattoo +136 per cent
• White tattoo +126 per cent
• Henna tattoo +33 per cent

 MEXICO

• Blackout tattoo +1297 per cent
• Geometric tattoos +354 per cent
• Photo tattoos +265 per cent

 UK

• Love yourself tattoo +94 per cent
• Nerdy tattoo +62 per cent
• Face tattoos for women +144 per cent

 US

• Anatomical heart tattoos +1861 per cent 
• Ninja turtle tattoos +1494 per cent
• Queen band tattoo +1414 per cent