Wolf Tattoo Full Moon

Small ones last longer

Counterintuitive, and consistently true. A compact design will still look right when a large one on the same person has started to fail.

The reason is edges and movement. A transfer fails at its borders, where clothing catches it and skin flexes, and a large design has far more border to lose. It also spans more of the body, so it crosses more places that bend and stretch.

A design of 8 x 6 cm sits inside a single area of skin that mostly moves as one piece. Nothing tugs at opposite corners in different directions.

If you want something to survive a long weekend rather than an evening, small and compact is the choice.

Where it fits

Roughly square, so it suits the places tall designs cannot use: a shoulder blade, an outer shoulder, the top of a forearm, a hip, an ankle.

The subject

Wolf and full moon, the most reproduced pairing there is. This one takes the long way round. The wolf is a head in profile facing right, and the profile is filled with a landscape instead of fur: a starred blue night sky across the top, a sunset of magenta, pink, orange and yellow below it, and bare black trees standing through the middle of it. At the base the shape settles onto a dark outcrop, and on that outcrop a second and much smaller wolf sits with its head raised. The moon is behind and above the head, pale against a splash of blue.

Worth knowing that wolves do not howl at the moon; they raise their heads because it sends the sound outward rather than into the ground.

Our article on why wolves howl has the rest. See the wolf temporary tattoo range.

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