A pin-up girl is a woman whose beauty and physical attractiveness entice people to place a picture of her up on a wall. The term first got introduced in the English language in 1941 but it has been in practice since the 1890's. The term stands for a girl who is so beautiful that one would want to pin-up or post her image on the wall. Pin up girl designs share a long history with the art of tattooing, which dates back to the previous century. Pin up girl tattoo designs have been seen as an expression of beauty, sensuality and, sometimes, female empowerment. The classic pin-up tattoo designs were often associated with 'ideal' feminine beauty. These designs are always perfectly put together and never are they depicted without oodles of sex appeal.
Old School Pin Up Tattoo Designs
Historically, tattoos depicting pin-up girls showed images of super hot girls. However, what was looked up as hot in those days may not be considered 'hot' today. Traditional pin-up girls were not girls wearing thongs and low-rise jeans with bucket cap or anything similar on the modern lines. Very typically, an old school pin-up girl design would be of a very beautiful girl incorporated into a tattoo design. Normally, the body of the women would be artistically depicted in the tattoo and the girls themselves would be depicted as assuming various provocative poses. Whichever the pose they were shown in, the pose was a sexy, come-hither type of pose, where the woman's face was looking directly at the viewer.
Pin-Up Tattoo Designs
Numerous pin-up girl tattoo designs feature a realistic depiction of some of the famous models. Depending on personal choices, some people also go away back to the 1920s' era to choose pin-up girl designs for themselves. These designs are done in black and white or sepia tones. The girls were shown with wavy hair, in a number of poses, often sheathed in lace or exotic costumes or some also entirely nude. There are prop designs that can also be included along with the girls themselves. The most common props include bubbles, parasols, feather boas, etc. If you want to have a colorful tattoo, then you will have to hunt for designs since the 1950s' and later. The most well-known of the pin-up models is, undoubtedly, Bettie Page. Normally bold animal prints, dark leather, etc., were used on her and the poses included lounging on a beach, posing in a theme park, etc. For more erotic designs, the most commonly used theme was a female model tied up by another scantily clad model.
It is important to understand that charged or free designs are actually illustrations. They are often recreation work of some of the better known pin-up artists or can also be exaggerated cartoons. One of the most recognizable example is the Vargas Girl. Pin up tattoo artist Alberto Vargas dedicated himself to the task of glorifying a sensual image of womanhood. If you come across a pin-up girl tattoo design which features a long limbed, heavily hipped and bosomed woman in a variety of flouncy lingerie or costumes, etc., it is a typical Vargas Girl.
The other used designs include women simply posing with a hand on one bent knee with the other hand stretched out, or lounging with her arms behind her head, or lying down on her side with a smoldering look in her eyes with her hands framing her face. Cartoon pin-up tattoo designs tend to be with more outrageous bodily proportions and can be shown with a multitude of styles. The other can be angels and devils, robot design, fairies and gunslinger tattoo designs, pin-up nurse designs, etc. These tattoos can also be combined with flower tattoos, koi fish tattoos, etc.
Pin up girls make for great lower back tattoos, sleeve tattoos, ankle tattoos, etc. Pin up tattoo designs often have multi-fold nature. They can be sweet and unassuming, sassy, smart, etc. However, they will always be an enduring symbol of beauty, vivacity, promiscuity and grace.
