Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The most well known tattoos of the natural style of tattoos are the flower tattoos. Almost all the available flowers can be used as a tattoo design but the most prominent of all the flower tattoo designs is the rose flower tattoo design.
Flower tattoos have a very ductile way of representing the idea of a tattoo wearer and hence the consumer themselves can fix up the meanings of their tattoos from a symbolic outlook. Generally a rose is used to exclaim a romantic mood but with a good tattoo artiste the rose flower tattoo design can also be used to depict a menace or some dark incidents. Different colors of roses imply different meaning and for example rose flower is used to express clandestine love, white rose is used for representing simplicity and also enchantment while yellow roses can used for flagging love or else they may warn of greed. Not only flowers are used as tattoo designs, even flower buds are used as tattoo designs as in the case of rose buds which are used for depicting youth and chastity. Then comes the red rose as known by all is used for symbolizing love and passion for a person.
The flora has been in existence right from the birth of the world and all the countries in the world consists of some beautiful and even some distinct rare flowers. Hence flowers are admired all over the world for their beauty which is the sole reason for the popularity of the flower tattoos. It is believed that the flower tattoos were in existence from the very birth of the tattoos in the very olden days. The people from all over the world seem to get fascinated by the very look of the flower tattoo designs for years and years.
It is already mentioned earlier that rose tattoo is the most popular tattoo of all the flower tattoo designs. Even then, some of its major competitors are the lotus flower and water lily tattoo designs. These type of tattoos (i.e.) the lotus and lily tattoos are more popular in the eastern regions of the globe while the rose flower tattoos are more popular in the western regions of the globe. It can also be said that the lotus and rose flower tattoos are the most prominent tattoos amongst the flower tattoos, in general. Lotus has been very prominent in the Indian and the Chinese culture. It is believed that Buddha arose from the centre of the lotus flower in China. Lotus also has so much importance in Indian mythology too. Hence the lotus flower tattoos are vey prominent in the east than in the west.
Apart from lotus and rose there are also other flower tattoos like the hibiscus tattoos which is very popular among the women in the Hawaiian Islands. It is available in two colors appealing red and yellow with some petals that are few in number when compared to a rose flower and it is surrounded by a seed that protrudes from inside. As flowers are generally associated with women you can’t find men having a flower tattoo easily. Some other available flower tattoos are daffodil flower tattoos which represents deceitfulness, dreams, unaccomplished love and also cognizance.
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