Flower Tattoos

As with the real thing, flower tattoos are both beautiful and symbolic of many things. A lily alone, for example, means different things in different cultures. For some it is a symbol for purity and for others can represent erotic love. For Asian cultures, the heavily symbolic lotus flower brings good luck, tranquility and rebirth. Whatever flower you choose to represent on your skin, whether alone or in a bouquet, can make a profound statement about what you identify with.

You even can express entire messages with flower arrangements. If you would like to promise to be faithful to your first love, this can be represented by a lilac surrounded with ivy. Those that view themselves as brave and lucky, or perhaps want to be, can link a chain of delphinium and stephanotis as an armband.

Those looking for a more discrete or dainty look can design a tattoo using only one simple flower, while those with bigger ideas can create a long segment of vines growing up their leg or side of their body. You can use bright colors or dark shades. You can paint an entire tree over your back or chest with small blossoms blooming all over it.

You don’t have to stop with just flowers. Linking flowers with their leaves can be richly expressive of many things. The most obvious images that comes to mind is a rose with its thorns, but a more interesting mix can be an olive leaf growing around a cosmos flower, thereby conveying a strong sense of peace.

Of course you can mix flowers with any other symbol you like. Flowers wrapped around a religious symbol has always captured the imaginations of tattoo wearers and can express devotion, faith or respect for a common heritage. Another interesting emblem idea to pair with flowers is a zodiac sign or constellation. Each month has an association with a different gem, color and flower and these can be incorporated in a beautiful work of tattoo art.

Although typically seen as feminine and girly, flower tattoos can be so powerful that any man could sport one as well. Flower tattoos are timeless and beautiful. However you choose to illustrate your association with flowers, there is no doubt that you will love it for the rest of your life.