Butterfly Tattoo Designs

Butterfly tattoo designs are very popular tattoo designs all over the world, and mainly with women. The wearer of a butterfly tattoo design is making a statement all about their inner beauty and innocence, about their love for life in this moment, and love of life in all its glory.

Though each woman who chooses to wear a butterfly on her skin can give her own, unique butterfly tattoo a meaning just for her - the butterfly in a tattoo can mean so many different things depending on what the wearer wants.

Grace and Goodness

Some of the most usual meanings that people chose to give their butterfly tattoo designs are goodness, graceful beauty, and peace and tranquility. The butterfly is such a delicate, playful and beautiful creature. In the past stories from certain cultures have said that the butterfly watches over the world of man and all living things. Though most cultures in history have given special significance to the butterfly, they are such attractive creatures, and today butterfly tattoo designs are more popular than ever.

When someone sees a butterfly tattoo design, and they do not necessarily know any special meaning that butterflies hold, it does not matter because everyone knows that butterflies are in some ways the most beautiful and playful of creatures, and people recognise these attributes in the wearer of the tattoo. Although butterfly tattoo designs are so popular mainly with women, they really can suit most ages and either sex, though they do have a strong feminine quality which perhaps makes them better suited to women overall.

Why Choose a Butterfly Tattoo Design?

Sometimes when people get butterfly tattoo designs, they have done so as a reminder of someone close to them that they have lost. When you see a man with a butterfly tattoo design, this is often the case.

Flower tattoo designs are another example of this. Both flowers and butterflies are images of fragile beauty and make perfect reminders of a lost loved one who perhaps died prematurely - taken from this world before their time. When people choose a tattoo for this reason a butterfly tattoo design is perfect because it is easy to incorporate the initials or full name of a person in the wing-design of the butterfly. The wings of a butterfly are filled with so many patterns that can really be adjusted or designed in any way you like. They are perfect for subtle lettering.

Another way that butterfly tattoo designs are very versatile is with their size - they can look great as very small, even tiny images on your body, or they can be very big - stretched across one of the wider areas like the upper or lower back. In nature butterflies come in so many different colours and shapes and sizes, that butterfly tattoo designs can also be almost infinite in variety.

You can use any combination of colour and pattern in your own design, but traditionally a butterfly tattoo design won't have more than two or three well-picked colours, this is to avoid too much confusion in the image, which can spoil the tattoo a bit.