Ankh Tattoo Ideas

Popular Ankh Tattoo Styles

Because it’s a symbol, Ankh tattoos often look great a simple, black and grey outline design. But you can choose to step things up a notch, by using different styles to enhance your tattoo and make it even more personal.

Geometric tattoo styles can be used to outline the symbols, adding shapes, patterns and symmetry to create a truly immersive, Ankh tattoo design.

On the other hand, if you’re looking to create a slightly more ethereal tattoo design, you might choose a fine line or watercolor tattooing style, which will allow you artist to seamlessly incorporate additional colors, imagery, and symbology into your piece.

Whatever you choose, we strongly recommend searching social media apps, websites, and forums for content about the Egyptian Ankh, what it means, and how it’s portrayed. Then, use your findings to help your artist design a tattoo that’s absolutely perfect for you.

Best Ankh Tattoo Placement

If you’re only getting the symbol itself, an Ankh design can be placed pretty much anywhere on the body, such as your wrists, forearms, biceps, ankles, etc.

However, if you’re looking to pair an Ankh design alongside other Egyptian symbols or imagery, you may want to choose larger bodies part, like your back, chest, thighs. These locations allow your artist to create a more comprehensive design, without having to skimp out on details.

Yes, the Ankh can be tattooed virtually anywhere. But if you’re looking to incorporate other design elements, themes, or imagery into your design, it’s important to consider the overall size, design, and the number of design elements you want included when choosing your tattoo placement.

Women’s Ankh Tattoo Ideas

In general, women continue to prefer softer tattoo styles, like fine line, watercolor, floral designs, or minimalism. A woman’s Ankh tattoo can obviously be placed anywhere, but certain locations and designs tend to be slightly more womanly.

We’ve often seen women with Ankh symbol tattoos behind their ears, or centered on their chests.

However, we’ve also seen women with larger, more comprehensive Ankh tattoos, where the symbol was paired alongside other Egyptian symbols, like mummies, Sphinxes, the sun god Ra, or the Eye of Horus.

Either way, just be sure to carefully think about your tattoo design and how you can incorporate themes or elements into it that can make it more feminine.

Men’s Ankh Tattoo Ideas

Men often paired their Ankh pieces with other Egyptian symbols and theme, like the Eye of Horus, Ouroboros, the eternity of time, Sphinxes, etc.

Black and grey Ankh tattooes with heavy shading and bold line work are great and often look slightly more manly. Men can also pair their design with other Egyptian gods, like Osiris and Anubis, or whatever other themes they feel might make it more manly.

Ankh Tattoo Meaning

At its core, the Ankh is a symbol used to represent and confirm the cycle of life, from the living to the dead. It’s a symbol that’s commonly found in Egyptian hieroglyphics and symbolize both the physical life, death, and the afterlife.

Ancient Egyptian priests and priestesses, as well as many people in Egypt today view the Ankh as a powerful symbol of life, both mortal and immortal. It can also be used to represent the following meanings:

• Renewal – Through death, Ancient Egyptians believed our dead went on to be resurrected to live in the afterlife.
• Protection – It is a symbol linked to the god Ra, who is sometimes seen as a protector.
• Authority – Oftentimes, it was the high priests, priestesses, and pharaohs that carried and wore the Ankh on their persons.

Of course, these meanings are just of few of the ideas commonly linked to an Ankh tattoo. However, your tattoo can and should be totally personal to your.

So whether you like these meanings, or even if you’re just interested in and like the look of Egyptian symbols, you’re free to attach whatever meanings you want to your Ankh tattoo.