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Ear

The ear and the skin behind it. The cited chart treats it as several distinct surfaces rather than one: “Ear tattoos offer a lot of unique placements - on the ear lobe, behind the ear, or even on the cartilage.”
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

No links1 source · T2

What the research says

placement_anatomy
Category
head_and_neck
Available area
Smallest band in the cited chart, which lists Behind the ear among its small areas.
Scale behavior
Small in the cited chart; the source characterises the work as “These designs tend to be delicate and they tend to be very popular for women who want tiny designs.”
Tattooability notes
NO FETCHED SOURCE DESCRIBES TATTOOING CARTILAGE, which is the one surface here that is not skin over muscle or bone. Left blank rather than inferred.

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Tattoo Placement Chart (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo-education page and the primary placement source for this batch. It is the only fetched source that bands EVERY body area by the size of work it holds - small, medium, large and extra-large - which is what makes the available_area and scale_behavior columns answerable at all. It also supplies the fit rule (“a forearm tattoo shouldn’t wrap so far around the arm that it overlaps”), the design-expansion warning, and two orientation rules. IMPORTANT NEGATIVE FINDING, recorded because it bears directly on what this corpus may claim: the page states “Tattoo placements don’t have any specific meaning tied to them.” That is a Tier 2 trade claim about the modern Western commercial context in which the page is written. IT DOES NOT AND CANNOT SETTLE whether placement carries meaning or restriction in any cultural tradition - two Tier 1 museum sources in this same batch record placements that do. The claim is recorded, scoped, and NOT used to suppress a cultural placement rule anywhere in the corpus.

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30

Related concepts

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No relationship in the corpus touches Ear. The graph is sparse; the type listings carry browsing.