18 Opposite Best Friend Tattoos Trending In 2025
Kathakali S
Updated At 11 Apr 25
It is never necessary for best friends to match up most often; such differences usually draw one person closer to another. So, as a best friend, what more could you ask than opposite best friend tattoos? These tattoo ideas celebrate contrast, individuality, and how those opposites strike a beautiful balance. Maybe you are the night to their day or the witch to their jester. Whatever the case, here are 18 creative and symbolic tattoo ideas honoring the powerful harmony of opposites.
1. The Jester & The Witch Tattoo
These are the comical and the mystical tattoos. One best friend can get the whimsical jester, while the other decides on one that isn't very gypsy-ish—the witch. It is the ultimate yin and yang.
Tattoo artist Luna Graves says, “This design represents light and shadow in friendship — one brings laughter, the other brings depth. Together, they’re magic.”
2. Adorable Cat Ghosts Tattoo
These cute yet spooky ghost cats are what you need for your tattoo. One can get a naughty, little ghost cat, while the other can get a cat who has soft eyes and pastel vibes. It can also serve as a sweet twist of opposites.
3. Dancing Skeletons
Have fun with the dancing skeletons. You can celebrate life and death, or your love for dark humor with these opposite dancing skeleton tattoos.
Ink historian Marcus Vale explains, “Skeletons have long symbolized equality — a perfect metaphor for friends who are wildly different but share the same core.”
4. Koi Fish Tattoo
Koi fish tattoos remind observers of the symbolism of yin and yang in duality and balance. One fish swims up representing ambition while the other swims down for calm acceptance-ideal for complements of strengths.
5. Pokémon Characters
Fire vs. water types and all about Pikachu against Mimikyu make for great pocket monster tattoos to signify the playful differences that relationship contains. Choose your characters based on different personality types or aesthetic differences.
6. Connected Dinosaurs
Two adorable dinosaurs linked by a string or reaching out for a high-five- have friends well over time and temperament. Picture the grumpy dinosaur compared with the bubbly dinosaur.
7. Cosmic Cats
One person can be everything solar-bright while the other can be dark and mysterious, like the moon: with the cosmic cats above you can now have celestial beauty combined with cat energy, great for astrology lovers or moon-and-sun best friends.
8. Zodiac Signs
Tattoo each individual's zodiac sign in a way that reflects how they would have, thereby creating a personal opposite between them. Fire will meet water; air will accompany earth -- all-powerful celestial references to your link.
9. The Red String
A symbolic tattoo of fate and tie, red string tattoos are relayed in Asian fables, should have a red string tied with something that represents their experience and flame-to this best friend destined to meet.
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Hana Min, explains, “The red string legend teaches us that some bonds are pre-destined. These tattoos are for soul-level friendships.”
10. Moon and Saturn
Instead of the typical moon and sun tattoo, it's time to form one with the moon and Saturn. This tattoo is even more suited for best friends with different thoughts regarding life.
Tattoo artist Rowan Ether, shares, “The moon nurtures, Saturn disciplines. These tattoos speak to friends who bring out different, needed sides of each other.”
11. Live-by-the-sun, Love-by-the-moon Tattoo
These poetic tattoos seem perfect for friends who feel most alive at different times of the day. One can bear in its beam the immortal solar energy, while the other may capture the dreamy glow of moonlight.
12. Opposite Infinity Flowers
The flower version of the infinity symbol boasts blooming petals while the other sports are withered or closed ones. It beautifully sums up the highs and lows in your friendship.
Botanical tattooist Harper Bloom shares, “A blooming and a fading flower — both parts of a cycle, both valid. That’s friendship, too.”
13. Golden Hour and Midnight
The sun creates an argument against midnight in the warm tones of a tattoo at the golden hour. It's almost like a letter written in visual terms, describing the time of day each friend feels most at home.
14. Sun and Moon Fare Decorated
Send out the glowing sun and moon ornamented with intricate decoration designs in jewel-like patterns or celestial detailing representing your unique touch. One glowing, the other glowing softly.
15. Yin and Yang with Tide & Peak
The classic yin and yang concept is modernized with tide (waves) and peak (mountains). Here comes a friend who is fluid and intuitive and another who is grounded and ambitious- perfectly balanced as a pair.
Symbolic tattoo artist Tao Renzu, explains, “Mountains and waves symbolize opposing yet balancing forces — one still, one flowing. Just like some friendships.”
16. Avocados High-Fiving
A cute and quirky option of having a high-fived avocado, a symbol for complementary differences like extrovert vs introvert or loud vs quiet. Sweet, silly, and serious friendship goals.
17. Sun with Little Flower and Moon with Little Flower
Here are your graceful, celestial symbols with delicate floral additions that would make this pair adorable: one with a sun and blooming daisy, the other with a moon and blooming lily, as different as you.
18. Hands Holding Cigarette and Lighter
Just as flame is offered by a hand, smoke is offered by another - which makes it a raw and symbolic tattoo for best friends who inspire each other's fire no matter how dark their mood would be.
Tattoo artist Cal Monroe, known for gritty realism, says, “This one’s for the ride-or-die kind of friends. It’s not about the cigarette — it’s about showing up with fire when your best friend needs it.”
