However, palm tattoos are a little bit tricky, and so they should be done by a skilled artist.Īs weird as it might sound the forehead is one of the most common places to draw barcodes. With a barcode on your palm, you can hide or show it any time you wish with little effort. Most people do not like experimenting with palm tattoos, but this is not to say that they are not beautiful. You can also have a mammoth barcode on your back, and it will still look great. Most people believe that barcodes only look good when drawn as small tattoos, but this is not necessarily true. If you are thinking of getting a huge barcode tattoo then the back would form a perfect placement area. The wrist also ensures maximum visibility for your tattoo. With a good artist, you can have a barcode that fits perfects on your wrist. What makes the wrist an ideal place to have your tattoo is its shape. The wrist can make a good placement area for your barcode especially if you want a smaller tattoo. In fact, most tattoo artists will recommend the back of the neck when you ask them for a barcode tattoo placement idea. This is the most common place that people prefer to have their barcodes. However, the following locations are the most common places to have these tattoos. With barcodes, there are no restrictions as to where you can place them as you can draw yours anywhere you like especially given the fact that some are temporary. Other people will get these tattoos as a statement of art and for those who understand the tattoo it has all the characteristics of a quality work of art. This group of people feels that this tattoo protests against the big corporate of the world that are only concerned with making money and care little about the humans that they market their products to. The barcode is also often used to symbolize protest against corporate manufacturers and corporate greed. In this case, the tattoo is meant to help one stand out from the rest. A barcode can also be used a sign of protest against a culture where everyone wears the same clothes or listens to the same music. Nowadays it’s all about products and making money and so there is a feeling that humanity is losing the essential traits and characteristics that make him human. The tattoos can be used to warn people that if we are not careful as a species we risk becoming a product ourselves. This tattoo is also sometimes meant to be ironical. Just like a barcode is associated with an individual product so will this tattoo be associated with the particular person who has it. With all the technological advancement and progress in the society, it is very difficult to be identified as an individual, and so some people will use this tattoos to represent their individuality. As the human population continues to grow at an alarming rate it is now very difficult for a person to be noticed as an individual. The most common meaning associated with these tattoos is individuality.