Skull Tattoo Designs

Skulls are powerful images for tattoos. Their meaning can vary from images of death and portents of doom, to symbols of victory of life over death, to the religious symbols of great saints St. Francis of Assisi and St. Jerome.

Skull tattoo designs can symbolise sacrifice and forgiveness, or can be emblems of hate and destruction. The image of skull tattoo designs is certainly closely tied in with life and death, whatever the personal meaning you read into them.

And this is what makes skull tattoo designs excellent tattoos, as they invoke a powerful reaction from someone seeing them, and they make a powerful message about the wearer.

The imagery in skull tattoo designs bring up lots of stories and tales. Symbols of pirates to rock bands and alternative metal. Bikers and secret societies use skull tattoo designs in their symbols and logos.

Interestingly both the most conservative organisations in the world have used skulls in their symbols and the most alternative movements have too. From christian monks to Hell's Angels and the Jolly Roger.

Different Skull Tattoo Designs

There are many many different ways skull tattoo designs can be depicted, thousands upon thousands, so it is easy to crete your own unique skull tattoo design. You can depict simple human skulls, or skulls with buckets of malice and personalit, to flaming skulls. People use the skulls of animals in their tattoo designs, such as bulls, dear, dragon-skulls are very popular, vampire or demon skulls are too. Jester and joker skulls are popular as the naturally grinning natuer of a skull lends itself to these images.

The skull is a powerful reminder of our own mortality, which is why it has been such a potent symbol in so many cultures.

People who choose a skull tattoo design first spend time searching throuh galleries of skull tattoo designs online - where the vast majority of high quality tattoo designs are to be found. Then they take the few best skull tattoo designs they can find and print them to take them into a good quality tattoo parlour.

Here they can compare these to the tattooist's own collection of skull tattoos and the tattooist can help them decide on the best style, effect and image for them as individuals, depending on what characteristics and message they want to express. This is the best way to go about chosing your skull tattoo design - any tattooist worth his or her salt will have inked thousands of skull tattoos before and can give you some god pointer on your own skull tattoo.