blue rose flower tattoos

Versatility of Flower Tattoos

Flower tattoo meanings and variety

Flowers are a fast growing segment of the tattoo market, and because of the infinite variety and endless meanings attached to them, can be used my women and men to speak and say a lot of things, while being very nice looking.

Another strength of the flower tattoo designs is the ability to include almost any combination of images with them, as they work with just about anything, depending on the subject matter and the type of flower it is.

You can either have a flower stand alone, or include it in a complex story told on the canvass of your body, which many people consider their bodies when it comes to certain imagery. Flowers are one of them with tattooing. 

Lotus Tattoo

Full back lotus flower and frog tattoos

Meanings of flowers

As far as the meaning of flowers go, there's the traditional meaning, which many people include as part of the reason for the specific flower tatoo chosen.

Others simply attach whatever meaning they like to the flower, basically making it their personalized message.

Blue Rose Vine Tattoo

Flowers can represent the cycle of life

One general meaning of a flower is in reference to the totality to life, where it goes through all the stages of life people go through, and finally return to the ground. Many people like to attach the life cycle to the meaning of their tattoos, and can do it in connection to their cultural roots, which many flowers specifically fit into.

Full back dragonfly, butterfly, flower tattoo

Extraordinary flower tattoo photo

Flower colors and their meanings

Not only do specific flowers represent certain things to people, but the colors of those flowers do as well, which can come to represent a variety of meanings when combined.

A red rose can continue to talk of love for someone, while a blue rose tattoo could mean something entirely different. A white and red flower combined could represent pure love, and so on. 

How you can use flower tattoos with other things

As I mentioned earlier, flowers are among the more versatile tattoo images because of the many ways you can use them. You have the flower, the color, culture, and how all that interacts with other living things.  

Cherry blossom tattoo

Lotus flower tattoos

In the case of the lotus flower, that has similar meaning in Eastern cultures as the rose does in the West, specifically with love and purity. It can also refer to other Eastern virtues like peace, good fortune, beauty and enlightenment. 

Lotus flower tatoo

Infinite variety of flower tattoo themes

With the plethora of flower images around, you can get a tattoo artist to make just about any flower you choose, and have it inked on to say what you're trying to say. 

Multiple flower shoulder tattoo

Flower tattoos work with almost anything

As far as other living things, leaves and stems, along with butterflies, dragonflies and hummingbirds work good with flowers, although, like I said, you can use almost any flower in certain situations and they really work.   

Orchid flower tattoo

I've seen flowers wrapped around everything from a cross to a skeleton, and for whatever reason, they seem to work in the image created.

Cherry blossom back tattoo

Flower tattoos will continue to grow in popularity

We'll continue to see flower tattoos grow in popularity as people continue to discover the many ways to incorporate them alone, or with almost any other image.

tiger lily tattoos

 Tattoo art in tiger lily tattoos. Lily tattoos accept a array of meanings; white petals accept appear to beggarly chastity and purity, while spotted blush blooms may announce sensuality; orange petals,passion. In some cultures,the appearance of the annual indicates animal adulation , while in some religions the afraid is apparent as a attribute of adherence to arbitrary faith.  

Lily tattoos are about times absolutely simple and affection either one, or a baby accumulation of this accurate annual . Given the advanced array of types and colors, it is nice to apperceive some of the varieties available. Two of the best apparent of this flora are the white afraid and stargazer lily. Though awfully different, they are both identifiable as allotment of the liliaceae family. The white afraid tends to accept alarge bloom, with soft, buttery petals; tall, attenuate blooming stalks and beeline leaves. The stargazer has bolder colors; the edges of the petals actuality lined in a ablaze white, while added in, there is a abundant blush hue and red spots. Another absorbing advantage would be the aerial lily, which is one of the abate of these plants, and about sports a ablaze orange blush with amethyst or amber spots at the center.



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Black Lily Flower Tattoos