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Butterfly Tattoo Designs

Butterfly Tattoo Designs Are Hot

Butterfly tattoos are one of the hottest tattoo designs for women today. In fact based on the search volume of keywords butterfly tattoos are right up in the top most requested designs for women. So you may be wondering why so much attention is given to butterfly tattoos right? Well when you think about it makes perfect sense. Butterfly tattoos are popular for a variety of reasons. Beautiful Butterflies For starters butterflies are just beautiful. They are one of the prettiest insects in nature with their delicate wings and brilliant colors! They make a great subject for tattoos because of their colors and brilliance. It is the perfect match to the wide variety of beautiful tattoo inks.

Symbolism Of Butterflies

The symbolism behind any tattoo really is up to the person wearing the tattoo as they are ultimately the ones that decided to get the design done permanently on their body and butterflies can have different meanings depending on the person who got the tattoo. However, there are some very strong associations and connections between butterflies and humans and some of these elements give the butterfly tattoo a very rich symbolic meaning.

For starters butterflies are typically very short lived animals. They typically live from a few days up to two weeks or so depending on the climate and other conditions int heir environment. Either way they have a pretty short life. So butterfly tattoos often are symbolic for the impermanence and shortness of life

which serves as a great reminder to live every minute to the fullest. It is sort of the insects world symbol for the Latin term "Carpe Diem" or "Seize The Day".

Many ancients believed that the stages that a butterfly goes through from egg, to caterpillar, to cocoon and then finally a butterfly were symbolic of the stages that a human soul goes through. Thus in today's culture butterfly tattoos often hold a spiritual symbolism for the journey of life.

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Perfect Dragon Tattoos Style and Trends

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This tattoo is a good thematic blend of the two previous - here, the shoulder area appears cut away to reveal underlying mechanical works.

From a visual standpoint, steampunk-inspired tattoos seem almost obvious. When skin is the canvas, it isn’t a stretch to envision what lies beneath. Imagining something greater than reality is, artistically, the next logical step. Steampunk tattoos have such great potential that it is only the genre’s relative obscurity that makes them as uncommon as they are.

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Horitomo
Senior Apprentice of Horiyoshi III
New Blood
by Horitaka

For almost ten years, Kazuaki Kitamura was well known in the international tattoo community as "Washo." As Washo, he was at the forefront of a new breed of Japanese tattooer, challenging traditions and bringing the Western style to Japan. Now, Washo carries the name Horitomo and for the past several years has been an apprentice of Horiyoshi III. He made this move in order to further develop his art by studying the traditions of the past.

While his first recollections of tattoos, traditional style body suits seen on neighborhood people, go back to elementary school, it was the Western style that first led him into the world of tattooing. His interest in surfing exposed him to other surfers with "one-point" tattoos. He ended up getting tattooed by Sabado in the fall of 1992 after being introduced by a friend. From that point on, their relation quickly grew and he became Sabado's first apprentice. Eccentric Tattoo had just opened up in Nagoya, very close to his hometown. Kazuaki ended up staying at Eccentric for three and a half years, where he gained his foundation and entry into the tattoo world. Sabado also gave him the name Washo, a title he would use for almost ten years. Needless to say, Kazuaki was very fortunate to be taught by Sabado, a world renowned legend in modern Japanese tattooing.

Struck by wanderlust, Kazuaki traveled for the next year and a half. Convention work had introduced him to many foreign artists and he ended up working at Everlasting in San Francisco for three months. This was right before Aaron Cain left and he was able to work with him as well as Mike Davis, Patrick Conlon and Troy Denning. Following this he helped establish Scratch Addiction in Tokyo and then Three Tides Tattoo in Osaka. Both of these shops became channels for the many Western tattooers wanting to visit and work in Japan.

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