Simple Heart Tattoos On Foot

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Tattoo Center. Simple Heart Tattoos On Foot. A heart tattoo can be inked into the skin at a small size, which means that it’s popular with people who want to have a small but meaningful tattoo. Although the heart symbol is generally shown in red, heart tattoo designs can come in a wide variety of colors and styles. Old school heart tattoos are very popular, especially when displayed with other old school tattoo designs such as roses, banners and sparrows.

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Heart shapes have been around for thousands of years in art, although they weren’t always used as a stylized representation of a human heart. Most of these early precursors to heart designs were in the form of leaf designs and spear heads. Over time, the same shape was adapted to become a symbol of the human heart – the place in the body that was believed to be the birthplace of emotions like love and passion.

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The heart symbol has been used in religious artworks, on playing cards and as the favored symbol for Valentine’s day. The symbol is simple, yet it carries complicated meanings of adoration, generosity, love, passion, desire, health, blood, lust and approval. Heart tattoos became popular in the early 1900s, when sailors began to wear heart tattoos with the word “Mum” in the center. Later, heart tattoos bore the names of wives and/or children, sometimes even a favored port. During World War II, soldiers wore heart tattoos with the name of a girlfriend or wife. The tattoos were considered lucky charms – keepsakes of loved ones that they couldn’t lose in the chaos of fighting.

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As tattoo machines improved and tattoo artists could produce finer detail in the art works, heart tattoo designs became more complex. Some were depicted with symbolic elements such as snakes, swords, fire or flowers. A very popular form of heart tattoo included a banner that hung across the heart with a name or motto written across it. The heart symbol is made up of two halves, usually the same size and shape. Without one half, the symbol would not be complete, so hearts represent a union or joining of two people in a relationship. They can also represent the emotional joining created when a person loves a place, idea or animal.