Butterfly Tattoos

Butterfly tattoos are primarily female tattoos and they come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Almost all of them are strikingly beautiful – like butterflies themselves, butterfly tattoos come in a whole range of colors and patterns. This is a popular tattoo because it’s pretty and feminine without being overly flowery or sentimental. A butterfly tattoo can be delicate and discreet – for a small tattoo, try a butterfly that is life sized or smaller on an ankle or shoulder. The lines of the tattoo can be thin and delicate and the tattoo can be black or colored. This is a very feminine tattoo that doesn’t have a huge visual impact, but is a pretty and graceful accent.

Other butterfly tattoo designs are very different. Consider, for example, Celtic butterfly tattoos, which depict the butterfly using much bolder lines for maximum impact. There are many good reasons why Celtic tattoos are so popular. For one thing, the spirals and knotwork that make up traditional Celtic art come across very well in tattoos – you might even say that tattoos display this type of artwork to full advantage. For another thing, Celtic art complements the contours of the body very well. A Celtic tattoo always has a classic, quality look to it – it’s never cheap or trashy looking. Butterfly tattoos done in this style incorporate the Celtic design in one of several ways – a Celtic border might surround the butterfly image, or the butterfly’s wings might be filled in with Celtic artwork.

Low back butterfly tattoos are usually larger, more stylized butterfly images that stretch across the lower back, one of the most popular places to get a tattoo nowadays. Actually, butterfly tattoos lend themselves very well to this location. The butterfly image is very symmetrical, so the middle can easily be lined up with the spine, the wings extending on either side. This makes the butterfly wings longer and more stretched out than they would be in nature, but the image can be very attractive. Some of these tattoos have the butterfly wings in full color, like the natural markings of a butterfly.

Butterfly tattoos are among the most versatile tattoo images, which helps explain their popularity with women. They are inherently feminine, but not necessarily ‘girly’. You can make a bold or subtle statement with butterfly tattoo art. All of this means that we are likely to see even more butterfly tattoos in the years to come.