A popular choice for stomach tattoos is tattooing rounded images around your belly button. Any number of images can be chosen and re-sized or custom designed to suit your own personal style. Many women choose to display one flower image on their stomach with the belly button acting as the ovule, with petals surrounding it. Small flowers in a vine-like design around the belly button is also popular. A common belly button tattoo design for men is a spider, and sun and moon tattoos are common for both men and women.
If you are a law enforcement professional, security officer, military personnel or just a gun enthusiast you may want to express your interest by tattooing a handgun on your stomach. A popular contemporary stomach tattoo design is a life size hand gun tattooed in great detail at the waist. With the handle in an upward position and the barrel of the gun pointing downward, this tattoo design creates the illusion that you have your gun tucked into your pants.
Old English lettering is a popular tattoo design that many men, and some women,are using in their custom tattoo designs. You can choose the words, names, or phrases of your choice to display whatever message you would like to send. Have words arranged in a half circle above your belly button and if desired, add additional words in a straight line below the navel area. This design is quite popular among celebrity musicians such as Tommy Lee who has the word "Mayhem" across his stomach in old English lettering.
If you have a zany sense of humor and are willing to commit to a lifetime joke tattooed to your stomach, a monkey butt, or any other animal butt, may be a hilarious way to display your body art. A popular humorous design among tattoo enthusiasts today is to design an animal tattoo around the naval area and carefully positioned in a manner that makes the belly button appear to be the animal's anus.