When you choose upon having a tattoo armband design, the next step is to always go and check out what's tattoo designs are out there, simply by looking at what latest styles are gracing arms everywhere.

So here are some of the three most popular armband tattoo design ideas right now:

Armband Tattoo Design One - Tribal Design

The recent resurge in public interest into these designs has meant that they are more popular now than they have ever been. Preferred typically by men, for a tattoo design, they take their influence from Celtic drawings or from art and symbols from as far away as New Zealand and North Africa.

Armband Tattoo Design Two - Half-Sleeves Design

Not really an armband design in a typical sense, half-sleeve tattoo designs are still worth a mention here (even though they would be seen as a little bit more hardcore by some).

An example of a half-sleeve design, is the picture that hip-hop artist Eminem wears on his upper right arm, of his daughter Hailie. Its a design that draws, in complete, all over your upper arm from your elbow to your shoulder, inking a full bodied painting onto your skin.

Armband Tattoo Design Three - Far-Eastern Designs

These tattoo designs are heavily influenced by Japanese art and tradition. Also Chinese symbolic lettering are always popular. Typically drawings of dragons curling around the arm, or tapered Chinese lettering spelling the name of close loved ones, give you more options for your armband design.