To achieve a superior "living dead" and rather extreme look, you might consider a tattoo that would make your head resemble that of a skull. First, shave your head. The tattoo design would include inking dark patches around your eyes and on the tip of your nose to create a hollowed-out effect. Next, stretch a design mimicking that of a fully exposed set of teeth from one lower cheek to the other. And include black patches on the upper cheek until the ear to enhance your cheekbones and thin the face even more.
Solve boredom for good by transforming your face into a living chess or checkerboard. Have a tattoo artist draw parallel lines from the bottom of your chin upward, across the top of your skull, and ending at the nape of your neck. Cross these lines with perpendicular lines extending across the horizontal circumference of your head. Fill in the resulting squares with dark ink, alternating a dark square with a light square. This tattoo design also requires maintaining a shaved head in order for the board to show through.
Create the illusion of wearing make-up without wearing any at all by permanently tattooing eyeliner, eye shadow, lip liner, or blush on your face. Use a variety of color, or go all-black for a more Gothic vibe. This type of tattoo doesn't require much ink; however, as cosmetictattoo.com states, permanent make-up application is a specialized art form, and requires a thorough understanding of traditional cosmetic makeup application.
A humorous face tattoo option is to ink a replica face to make it appear like you have two faces--one in front and one in back. Shave your head, and have the tattoo artist draw a face on the back of your head--whether it be a silly, scary or beautiful face is your choice. If you decide upon a male face, consider leaving a portion of your hair at the bottom of your head intact, to simulate a beard or mustache. As opposed to many other head tattoos, the beauty of the two-face tattoo is that, should you ever grow tired of it, simply growing out your hair can cover a majority of it.