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Japanese Koi fish tattoos are often presented with a nice blend of eye striking patterns complete with swashing water and lotus flower images. In order to include these design elements in a manner that is going to give you maximum impact, it is best that you allocate a reasonable large area of your skin to accommodate them.

The optimal areas would be on the back, chest as well as the shoulder/upper arm/breastplate combo. If you want this sort of tattoo on the smaller part of your skin such as the forearms for instance, you have to scale down the design elements.

Understand this, in 3 to 5 years; the tattoo will age rendering the detailed design elements of your tattoo blurry, thus making it appear like an ugly splotch of ink! You can avoid this from happening but only if you opt for a bigger size tattoo. For smaller portions of the skin, I recommend a single Koi fish with a few basic patterns.

Japanese Koi fish tattoos are typically done in a wide variety of colors and in the Japanese people's eyes, this element is viewed as masculine. However, you must do your due diligence when it comes too choosing the colors for your tattoo.

You see, certain colors may negatively change the overall look of your tattoo over time. Take plain white ink for instance. This ink color is inappropriate for people with extremely oily skin because white can easily change to brown after a while. How quickly the process occurs? That depends on how oily your skin is.

The internet is a powerful resource for searching Japanese Koi fish tattoos but sadly one often comes across websites with generic junk patterns.

Let me give you a couple of ways for finding quality designs. Go to groups.google.com and search for message boards that are related to tattoos. Another way which happens to be my favorite is by flipping through membership galleries.