Flower Tattoos

For many individuals, flower tattoos are the perfect expression of Body Art – they’re elegant and expressive without being predictable, and the wide variety of available designs insures there is a perfect choice available for everyone.

There are many different types and styles of flower tattoos. These include realistic blooms, stylized representations, and multi-flower designs. The ingenuity and uniqueness of the tat is only limited by the artist’s imagination, giving flowers an immense range of applicability to different individual’s inking preferences. Certain flowers, such as roses and lillies, are seen more than others, but literally any flower can be turned into a tat as long as there is a skilled tattoo artist on the job.

Roses are indisputably the most popular floral tattoos. A single, vibrant rose can express love, romance, caring, and beauty. At the same time, the flower’s thorns may represent hardship, fierceness, or danger. Just as with the variations of the flowers themselves, the most popular color is red, while yellow, white, purple, and black are also frequently used for different designs and to convey different intentions. Roses are often coupled with a ribbon or banner bearing the name of a loved one and are also sometimes coupled with religious imagry as the rose can represent Jesus Christ, and the Rose Cross is a symbol of some occult groups.

Flowering vines are popular tattoo motifs, often used to encircle an arm, ankle, or navel, or as a frame to another tattoo design. Depending on the size of the vine, it may have only a few blooms or clusters of colorful flowers sprinkled along its length. The flowers may be small or large depending on the design, and the types of flowers often vary (though one vine looks best using a consistent type of bloom to create continuity).

Many people choose single blooms other than roses as expressive flower tattoos. Most months (and therefore, birthdays) are associated with a particular type of flower, which may be translated into a tattoo design for an individual expression. Hyacinths, gladiolas, daisies, lilies, and orchids are popular blooms used as tattoos that are less predictable than roses, though a skilled artist will be able to recreate any desired flower from a photo, sketch, or even the actual plant.

Flowers are often found as accompaniments to different tattoos, including hearts, fairies, women, and names. The bloom’s stem may wind around a part of the other design, or it may be stemless and used as an accent or focal point. Depending on the intricacy of the design, the flower’s leaves and petals may also be carefully placed as accents to further integrate the two symbols.

Where a tattoo is placed is an individual consideration based on the type of design, its shape, size, public acceptability, and personal preference. Many flower tattoos, particularly elongated designs or vines, are wrapped around ankles or arms, while single blooms often appear on shoulders or ankles. Bouquets can be designed to fit proportionally along the lower back, while a single, vibrant bloom may be centered around the navel.

The best way to choose a flower tattoo is to find the design that uniquely expresses your individuality and personality. While many people may assume that women naturally choose more floral tattoos, in fact many women don’t find the designs appealing if they don’t typically enjoy flowers. A man may use a flower to accent the name of his significant other or as a tribute to a special woman in his life, while less traditional flowers (black roses, for example) can exemplify a darker design for anyone.

Flower tattoos are some of the most popular designs today, and with their wide applicability to different individuals’ preferences and their adaptability to be used with different designs, there is a floral tattoo available for nearly every situation.

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