If you're afraid getting tattooed will harden your appearance, opt for an intrinsically soft design. "I'm a big fan of ultra-feminine elements like flowers," says Taylor.

Florals are a great female tattoo, because you can choose to get a tiny, delicate design, or go bigger to cover stretch marks and scars, and they still look feminine. After all, you don't exactly see biker dudes covered in pastel poppies.

Taylor says the shoulder blade is a great place for a first tattoo, as it's a part of the body that doesn't change much over one's life and is fairly easy to conceal. (But who would want to hide such a pretty design, anyway?)

Photograph courtesy of Zoey Taylor

Opt for a pair of delicate, lightly colored blooms, which look lovely on forearms and wrists.

Photograph courtesy of Zoey Taylor

Taylor says female tattoos can be a great way to disguise an area of the body that you're uncomfortable with, like scars or cellulite. They can also help to make something beautiful again, she says, "like getting flowers on your breasts after full reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy."

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Nothing counteracts surgery scars like a flourish of pink flowers.

Photograph courtesy of Zoey Taylor