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Tribal Tattoos
Tribal Tattoos are the most popular form of tattoo designs all over the world at the moment.
Originally referred to as any tattoo style done outside of the Western World, it has now come to be known as a style indicative of the tattoos created for thousands of years in the Pacific Islands and Africa.
Tribal tattoos are instantly recognizable with dramatic use of aggressive dark lines in jagged symmetrical shapes.
Tribal tats are most often done in simple black and skin tones but they can also be infused with color to brighten the overall look.
Whereas other tattoo styles attempt to represent a particular object, tribal tattoos seem far more interested in the feel.

The most popular tribal designs are Maori, Haida and Polynesian designs.
There is also a great interest in Native American Tattoo Designs.
The term "tribal" of course covers an astonishing array of tattoo design possibilities, from the traditional tribal tattoos of indigenous and aboriginal cultures, to the latest in graphic design for the body.


Star Tattoo Designs.
One of the most popular versions of star tattoo designs are nautical stars.
Nautical stars have a long history in the world of tattoo designs from all the way until the early navigators, especially Sailor Jerry and his many tattoo designs.
Typically the sailors use the North Star to help them navigate the waters of the open ocean.
Over time, the North Star was back to a symbol of happiness in a safe passage to Earth.
Over time this led many sailors who are a very superstitious lot of folk to start getting Star tattoos and more specifically nautical star tattoos to provide them with enough luck to complete a safe journey.
Originally they were different colors of tattoo stars and each color would be a different symbolic meaning.
For example a red nautical star tattoo might mean that the bearer assailed across the Pacific Ocean successfully three times.
Most of this history was in regard to the color symbolism of nautical star tattoos is lost unfortunately.
Not only is it a symbol of good lock it is also a simple for helping find one's own path in life and it is seen as a guiding symbol.


The butterfly tattoo designs
Butterfly tattoos are by far the most popular artistic subject of all insects.
Butterflies became a fad years ago by being the theme of many pieces of jewelry, t-shirts, scarves, paintings, and tattoos.
Artists have a real freedom of creativity when they are creating butterfly tattoos because the designs are not rigid.
They can be changed in color, size, shape, and other details without looking distorted.
The butterfly has many different meanings in our society, its symbol has been commonly known as freedom, change, and growth.
A good female tattoo design choice and a perennial favourite.


Fairy Tattoo Designs
The Fairy as a tattoo design can be as simple as a take-off on the often overpowering presence of corporate America in pop-culture, think Tinkerbell and Disney creatures, or it goes back to a rich history of story, myth and folklore.
Taken in the literature, it is often the embodiment of the will and desire of the human form to take on the shape of little people with magical powers.
As a tattoo design they can be symbols of youthful innocence and a desire to retain a child-like imagination, wonder and awe.
The word fairy derives from Latin "FATA", meaning fate andthe use of fairies in literature and myth to explain the workings of fate and natures often unpredictable gifts and disappointments.
The use of supernatural beings, who often meddle in human affairs in fairy tales, has created a genre of story-telling that is rich in symbolism and that lays bare the psychological and social challenges as we pass through the stages of childhood to adulthood.
The presence of magic makes fairies a favorite of children and as a tattoo design is a powerful symbol of our youth.


Dragon tattoo designs
The dragon is definitely hands down one of the most beautiful and powerful of all the mythic beasts.
The beauty and power of this mythical creature itself, being combined with a long and rich history of tattooing as an art form such as in the Japanese culture and you have a winning combination justify its attention as a tattoo design.
In most Asian cultures Dragons do not breathe fire typically and are seen as more benevolent creatures.
They are considered very powerful and are definitely a symbol of strength and power.
However, they also represent a perfect balance of yin and yang forces and are therefore believed to represent a reconciliation of balancing of power.
This is more likely to represent a combination of power with wisdom.


Celtic Tattoo Designs:
Celtic tattoo designs are primarily a genre of complex interwoven lines representing knots, mazes, spirals and other figures.
Celtic animal figures are zoomorphic or stylized representations of animals that have been used for sculptures, jewelry and wood, stone and manuscript illustrations,.
Many images used by tattoo artists today are derived from the famous Irish Book of Kells.
The famous Book of Kells is a lavishly illustrated manuscript, produced by Irish monks around the year 800 AD.
It is one of the most lavishly illuminated manuscripts to survive from that period.
The name "Book of Kells" derived from Abbey of Kells in Kells, County Meath in Ireland,

There are strong Norse design influences in Celtic knot work, and there is some debate as to the exact origin.
Apparently there were exchanges between cultures through trade and conquest.
The complexity of Celtic design is thought to mimic or echo the complexity of nature, the use of Celtic knots in spirals and mazes, the intricate interweaving showing no beginning and no end, reflective of the cycles of the seasons and of life.

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