How To Get A Spartan Helmet Tattoo
July 17th, 2010The variety of mythical tattoos one can get are almost endless. You’ll see medieval shields, weapons, helmets, and even armors emblazoned on the bodies of many people. A local tattoo parlor recently tattooed my brother Dave with a Spartan helmet tattoo. This tattoo has special significance to him and I because are ancestors lived in Sparta.
Dave has been a huge fan of the spartan movies and has seen the movie “300” almost that many times. The helmet is most easily recognized as a Spartan warrior’s head gear so we figured it would be the best thing to tattoo on him. Eventually he’ll get a Spartan shield on his left arm and a Spartan spear on his right arm. He might even tattoo the words “Spartan Soldier” on his stomach. He says he’ll loop the word so that it arcs across his midsection.
When we first brought Dave to our local tattoo parlor and asked the tattoo artist to place a Spartan helmet on his chest he said he couldn’t do it. The artist said he would like to try, but he did not really have a good idea of what a Spartan helmet looked like. We decided that we had better get a picture of our Spartan helmet before returning to the parlor. We found a great looking Spartan replica helmet at a web site called armor venue and decided to just go ahead and buy it. This Spartan helmet looked stunning and the purchase price was around eighty dollars before shipping costs. After using our Discover card to pay for it, we only had to wait a short time before receiving it.
Once we got the helmet we went back down to the tattoo parlor with the helmet. We showed the artist the helmet and he became really excited about the job. He had a great sketch ready for us in a few short minutes. After thinking it over Dave asked for a temporary helmet tattoo to be placed onto him so that he could decide if it looked good on his chest. After this we told him we would come back in a week to let him know if Dave wanted to go through with the tattoo.
Dave ended up going back and getting the tattoo. He now proudly has his spartan helmet tattoo displayed on his chest. He has received many compliments on the tattoo, even one from our mother. She was against him getting a tattoo so this was really surprising for us.






