It really is a shame that most people simply pick some random design for use in their next tattoo. There isn't anything special behind such a tattoo. No meaning, no personalization - just a boring design that everyone else who went to the same tattoo shop has. But what if you want more? What if you want something that not everyone will have? Then it is up to you to try and design your own, and here's how you can do it.

It's no secret that angel wing tattoos are very popular with girls. They're pretty, they can look as decorative or as simplistic as you want, and they can be large or small enough to fit practically anywhere on your body. Most tattoo shops have a couple of stock angel wings to choose from, but what we are trying to do here is give you a unique tattoo - something that nobody else has.

You don't need any artistic skill to design your own tattoo. All you need is your own set of tastes and preferences, an internet connection, and the desire to find a tattoo that you know you will want to have on you forever. To start the design process for your own, original, angel wings, you need to begin with a template of some sort. So fire up your web browser and start looking for images of angel wings that you can use as the foundation of your tattoo.

A quick search through Flickr or the Google Image Search will yield you tons of photographs, drawings, and paintings of angel wings as well as a multitude of angel wing tattoos from other people. Choose a picture that you like, save it to your desktop, and print it out.

Now that you have a hard copy of the image you want to start with, take a pencil and start working with the drawing. Add some extra decoration, remove parts of the picture you don't like, and write down any ideas that you may have that you don't exactly know how to draw out on your own.

When it comes time for you to get your tattoo, take your sketch to the tattoo artist and tell him or her that this is something along the lines of what you want. If the tattoo artist is good, they will go in the back room and sketch their own design based on your original. Taking your own design is the best and easiest way to make sure that you get an angel wing tattoo like nobody else has.