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Buttterfly Tattoos
June 3, 2008 by , under Butterfly Tattoos.
Butterfly tattoo is the most popular feminine tattoo design. A butterfly is a very beautiful and sophisticated creature that it is a favorite motif in the literary and visual arts. Butterfly wings have bright and infinite variety of patterns and colors so majestically and wonderfully presented. Butterfly as a tattto design can come in many sizes and colors and it is a great choice for tattoo newbies.
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Design can vary from fluttering butterflies, striking tribal butterfly designs and butterfly with colorful and bright hues. It can represent various meanings at different times. In classical antiquity, it a common belief that a butterfly represents the soul of someone who died whereas in western culture, butterfly represents freedom and in China, it is the secondary meaning of joy, especially in marriage.
Butterfly tattoo design has enormous flexibility in terms of size, color and meaning. It can be embellished and emphasized through various adaptations in tattoo imagery. It is also flexible in the sense that it has lots of variations - flower butterfly tattoos, celtic butterlfy tattoos and tribal butterfly tattoos, to name a few. The magical blossoming of butterfly from a caterpillar represents free spirit and innocence at the same time. Its wings represent the soul’s ability to fly away from the body. Its metamorphosis or the transformation from a cocoon is a common symbol for rebirth. Moreover, its like a talisman that unleashes the power and draw in the energies of the woman wearing it as a tattoo design. Overall, butterfly tattoo design symbolizes beauty, freedom, change and love which are common elements in a woman’s life.
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Butterfly tattoos - what’s in a design
As captivating and as pretty as they are as tattoo design, butterflies are even more interesting if you look at its life stages. Butterfly starts as an egg which hatches in about 5-10 days. This grows into caterpillar and starts to eat as it gets bigger and bigger. So it will shed its skin 4- 6 times. After 2-4 weeks when it is full grown, it would transform into a pupa, at this stage, it is trapped in a cocoon where its body structure changed into those of an adult. Adter 10-15 days later, the cocoon opens and butterfly emerges, free-spirited as it is and ready to explore the world. This is what is famously known as metamorphosis. This is where the meaning of a butterfly tattoo as a symbolism of rebirth and transformation is based upon.
Comment by Tattoo Designs for Men and Women | Tattoo Designs and Tattoo Ideas.
[…] Butterfly Tattoos - definitely a classic and all time favorite. Butterfly has natural beauty and artistic appeal, it is no wonder that women want it inked on their body. It represents change, transformation and new life which are all aspects in life that women can relate to. […]