The 14 Best Tattoos For Badass Couples Who’ll Be Together FOREVER

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Getting a couples tattoo is a big step.

And do you know what the best strategy is when it comes to taking a scary new big step?

LET SOMEONE ELSE GO FIRST.

This is why I love Instagram. It’s such a perfect visual catalog for everything you could ever want to do, particularly when it comes to tattoos. Because it has collections of some amazingly cool AND amazingly badass tattoo pictures, which is great, because it lets you see what you’re in for before you fully commit.

And that’s important to know before you commit to the most dangerous of all tattoos — the couples tattoo.

Couples tattoos can take many forms. They can be romantic. They can mirror or match each other. They can be something you do to bond with your best friend. But, regardless of their origins, they always come with MUCH higher stakes than a normal tattoo.

Why?

Because not only are couples tattoos packed with commentary about your relationship, but they also have to work TOGETHER as well as separately.

So, for example, if you and your partner each get one half of a heart tattooed on your arm, there are some questions you need to ask yourself. Like, does having a tattoo of “one bulbous half of a heart” look lame when you’re alone? Or how many opportunities are you really going to have to put your Wonder Twin tattoos together and make everyone say “Aww”? Is the effort worth what you’re getting in return?

Also, you don’t want to get the EXACT same couples tattoos that everyone else is getting.

The half-a-heart, the initials, the arrow and bow. If you’re going to take the plunge, get a couples tattoo that you're going to fall in love with over and over again as the years go on. And you also kind of want it to be cool as hell.

If you want to see some truly superior examples of the form, here are 14 of the most original, completely BADASS couples tattoos that we could find on Instagram. If you and your tattoo buddy really want to share some ink, just make sure that they're as hardcore as these are.

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