Plan your tattoo by body area
Tattoo Body Map is an interactive tool for planning tattoo placement — how much an area tends to hurt, how it ages and fades, and what sizes and styles suit it. Honest, practical guidance; not medical advice.
Interactive body map
Switch between Front and Back, and between the Pain and Fade heatmaps. Select an area to read its full guidance. These are estimated guides — pain and fading vary a lot by person.
- 1–2 Low
- 3–4 Mild–Moderate
- 5–6 Moderate
- 7–8 High
- 9–10 Severe
- Low
- Medium
- High
Body areas
Reliable list of selectable body areas. The current view filters which areas appear.
Experimental beta
Try the 3D body map beta
Rotate a technical 3D preview and select body areas. The 2D map remains the default and most reliable version.
How to use it
The body map has two heatmaps, both built on the same body-area data:
- Pain — areas coloured by how much they tend to hurt (shown by default).
- Fade — areas coloured by how quickly tattoos tend to age and fade there.
Switch between front and back, pick Pain or Fade, then select an area. The panel shows the full picture for that spot — pain, fading, healing, visibility, first-tattoo friendliness and practical placement, size and style advice. Pain and fade ratings are estimates based on common tattoo-artist experience and vary a lot from person to person — they're shown as a number and a label, never colour alone. Read how we estimate them on How it works, or more about the project on About.