Women With Butterfly Tattoo

Lower Back Women Dragonfly Tattoo

Tattoo Center. Women With Butterfly Tattoo. Many females begin to get a tattoo inked on their body. In the final fifteen years, tattoos have grown from being a symbol of disobedience and problem to a state of well-liked taking as a hallmark of style. According to some current polls, tattoo designs are yet linked with men, though more and more women are acquiring into the art of tattooing! In the final five year, the tendency for tattoos has increased, and yes, an important number of these are actually pretty girl tattoos! For men, the best body spot for tattoo application are the chest, upper arms, back and shoulder, though girls tend to go for everything a small more revealing.

Women Side Body Dragonfly Tattoo

Before acquiring a tattoo, girls shall generally deem where it seems greatest, and that goes well with it: an evening gown perhaps, or a bikini, or even just informal khakis! Also, for the skilled girls and women, tattoos should usually be where they can be secret! When looking for a artistic pretty girl tattoo, one of the most significant factors to deem is on what portion of the anatomy you need it! Generally, the pretty girl tattoos seem wonderful on the back, between or on the shoulder blades, winding approximately the ankle or wrist, on the arm or on the thigh.

Women Upper Back Dragonfly Tattoo

Some other tattoo spot is at the little of the back, where it can be shown off with a low hew swimsuit. It is not advisable to get a tattoo on the face, since it can ache a set and cannot be hidden at all! Also, places where the skin stretches with age, such as the breasts or between the breasts build graceless positions for tattoos, since the stretch of skin might lead to the tattoo acquiring distorted.This might put you in a very awkward position when you have to put on great that is low-cut.

Meaning of Butterfly Tattoo

Women Upper Back Butterfly Tattoo

Tattoo Center. Meaning of Butterfly Tattoo. Tattoos aren’t just for sailors and tough guys anymore. These days, tattoos are a fashion statement that people from all walks of life are making. People are getting and wearing tattoos in a huge array of patterns and colors and on many parts of the body. Young women are especially interested in tattoos. Tattoos highlight the beauty of the skin, the shapeliness of an arm or a shoulder, the sensuousness of the lower back. One of the most popular tattoo designs, especially for women, is the butterfly tattoo. Butterfly tattoos are graceful and charming and carry special importance for many women.

Women Foot Butterfly Tattoo

When people are deciding on what tattoo they will get, they are usually looking for something that will have some personal meaning to them, a tattoo that will express their outlook on life and the way they think about and see themselves. Tattoos usually have a symbolic meaning for the people who wear them, and butterfly tattoos are no exception. The butterfly has long been associated with transformation and with renewal or rebirth. The caterpillar spins its cocoon, sleeps away the long, cold winter, and in spring bursts forth newly made and transformed as a lovely butterfly.

Women Lower Back Butterfly Tattoo

In Greek mythology, Psyche, goddess of the soul, was associated with the butterfly. The Greeks also believed that butterflies carried new souls from heaven whenever a child was born. Thus butterflies are thought of as spiritual creatures, as a symbol of the lovely weightlessness of the soul and its ability to continuously transform and make itself new. Of course, butterflies are also associated with beauty, the beauty that bursts forth from the cocoon after the snows and ice of winter. Naturally then, the butterfly tattoo would be a favorite of women, suggesting femininity and grace. This is especially true when the butterfly tattoo is accompanied by a flower or a group of flowers. The butterfly lives its life drinking the nectar of the flower, sustaining itself through beauty

Dragonfly Tattoo Designs

Dragonfly Tattoo Design

Tattoo Center. Dragonfly Tattoo Designs. Similar to other tattoos of winged creatures like a fairy or angel, woman commonly choose to wear a dragonfly on their bodies. This may be because of the dragonfly’s graceful and dainty appearance. Their agile, swift wings lend them a sense of freedom, and their light-reflective bodies give them a bejeweled, glitter that makes them seem magical and symbolic of a free spirit. According to Native American tradition, the dragonfly represents invincibility, knowledge, and nimbleness. As such, dragonflies are said to be messengers of the spirit world. Because they exist as part of both the air and water worlds Native Americans see dragonflies as able to pass between this world and the next. In addition, the dragonfly image is linked with inspiration and originality.

Side Body Dragonfly Tattoo

With its fairy-like wings fluttering in the sunlight, romantic visions of magic and fairytales come to mind. It is for this reason that dragonfly tattoos are so very popular. As with many tattoos, choices for placement on the body, and size of the image are as diverse as the different designs and styles that can be portrayed. The most common areas for a dragonfly tattoo are of course on the ankle, lower back, shoulder, thigh, neck, and upper arm. Women especially often prefer tiny, delicate dragonfly tattoos that are discrete and feminine. This way these tattoos can be easily covered in instances when showing tattoos is inappropriate. Some women, however, prefer to bear the charming winged creature proudly in large proportion on their back or up the side of their bodies. What ever way you prefer, dragonfly tattoos almost always look beautiful.

Women Lower Back Dragonfly Tattoo

Some popular figures go from the basic, stylish black dragonfly all the way to a complex, highly-designed and boldly colored masterpiece. Many different styles and motifs have been explored throughout the years simply because the dragonfly is so common. Of course you can go with an anatomically correct insect with perfect detail so it looks nearly identical to the real thing, but with a little bit of imagination you can alter and improve upon nature’s creation and make the image wholly your own. For example, you can alter the body of the dragonfly to make it more dragon-like, or give it human facial features so that it looks like an insect fairy. Around the symbol you can include stars, words, hearts, crosses, Chinese symbols and whatever else you associate with the most. When choosing your dragonfly tattoo, be sure to explore all the options that are available as the more intricate your design, the more it will mean to you.

The Tattooed Poets Project: Elliott D. Smith

I met Elliott D. Smith at the Union Square Barnes & Noble last month and took pictures of his tattoos for The Tattooed Poets Project. I also met his roommate Jared, whose work will appear here tomorrow.

Elliott has quite a bit of work, including a sleeve-in-progress, which is being constructed by the wonderfully talented Joy Rumore at Twelve 28 Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Check out this composite of Elliott's right arm:

This still-incomplete tattoo is part of a sleeve based on a mural at the Morgan Street stop on the L train in Brooklyn.

Photo by Elliott D. Smith

The sleeve has the Alice in Wonderland figure at its center, but a lot of other images, like the banana as well. Elliott pointed out in the photo above that the banana (lower right corner) is much smaller. For the purpose of the art of the tattoo sleeve, its scale has been increased significantly.

Elliott added that he visually enjoys the image of the mural, and his "own little Alice in Wonderland dream land" is slowly taking shape on his flesh.

Also on his right arm with the sleeve is this quote from "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action," by Audre Lourde:

The quote is "I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior."

There are times when a writer's words resonate so loudly in your ears, they shake you to your core. Elliott told me that he "read it [these lines] one day and the next day got the tattoo."

He offered up this interpretation of the line: "it's easy to think of yourself as victim," he said, but succeeding in life is about "surviving and fighting through victimhood".

Elliott also has these words on his outer wrists:

This is the third poet this month with "poet" inked on his or her flesh. However, the combination of "freedom poet" adds another dimension to the corporeal text.

This was a "spur of the moment" tattoo, Elliott told me, elaborating that aside from the obvious "poet," he is "holding freedom in his hand and facing out".

Finally, we don't get a lot of lower back tattoos here on best-tatto-design, but when we do, they are extraordinary:

Elliott took a couple of photos into Joy and she crafted this design. The concept is a spin on the "power to the people" idea, but with an emphasis on urban people. "Most Americans live in cities," he explained, "but [they] don't have power". This is a spin on the frustration that many feel, that the values of the citizenry of the American cities are not represented by the government.

As for poetry, Elliott offered us this work:

EARNING STRIPES

I own thirteen striped shirts.

I have known the misfortune of wearing lines on skin,

stretch marks and self-hate carve flesh in convincing fashion.

No lover has ever asked me why

I have known the misfortune of wearing lines on skin,

razor blade reminders tattoo thighs with teenage dreams.

No lover has ever asked me why

it was so easy to steal from myself.

Razor blade reminders tattoo thighs with teenage dreams,

this belly, a thanksgiving turkey for carving--

it was so easy to steal from myself

when I didn’t believe I had anything to give.

This belly, a thanksgiving turkey for carving.

Sliced up white meat

when I didn’t believe I had anything to give.

Mother doesn’t know there’s blood on the stairs.

Sliced up white meat,

stretch marks and self-hate carve flesh in convincing fashion.

Mother doesn’t know there’s blood on the stairs.

I own thirteen striped shirts.

~ ~ ~

Elliott D. Smith reps Louisville, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn. When he's not  working with formerly incarcerated people or conducting research on masculinity, he drinks whiskey and talks too loudly. He believes in the power of tattoos, reference books, and matching music with the weather.

Thanks to Elliott for sharing his ink and his poetry here with us on best-tatto-design!

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Kim Addonizio's Blue Roses

When first embarking on this tattoo project, nearly everyone I asked referred me to Kim Addonizio. I'd venture to say she is the poet most well-known as "tattoo-friendly". In part, this is due to her editing an anthology called Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

Graciously, Kim accepted my invitation to participate in best-tatto-design's National Poetry Month project. She sent me the photo above, her fourth tattoo. I love the blue roses that set this piece apart from most lower back tribal tattoos.

Kim told me:

"The piece was done ... in Santa Barbara. It was the worst tattoo experience I ever had. (I have five tattoos). In the middle of it [the artist] took a phone call, saying, "Oh, hi. I'm tattooing a crack." I like the tattoo, though. There wasn't any particular significance to the design, for me, though afterwards I thought about Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie being called Blue Roses by her Gentleman Caller, and so it's become a bit of a reminder to myself, when I'm feeling fragile, to take a risk rather than withdraw."

She had this tattooed in 1994 and has added one more to her collection since then.

Be sure to head on over to BillyBlog to read one of Kim's poems. And although not every poem written by an inked poet appearing on BillyBlog this month is tattoo-related, Kim's is.

Thanks very much to Kim Addonizio for sharing her tattoo with us here on best-tatto-design!

Krystynna Shares Her First Tattoo

Krystynna walked by me on 7th Avenue on Monday, and her tattoos on her wrists, behind her right ear, and her left bicep were totally cool.

When I realized a sidewalk photo of her quarter-sleeve wouldn't do it justice, which she confirmed when she later told me it ran up onto her shoulder, I asked if she would rather have me take a picture of a different tattoo.

Kristynna surprised me by offering up her first tattoo, a large lower back piece. Remember, folks, I never take a lower back tattoo unless its offered, according to the best-tatto-design Code of Conduct.

Kristynna got the initial piece on the lower back, some flash art on the wall at Armageddon Tattoo when she was 17, ten years ago. She subsequently added little bits and pieces to make it into a larger piece over the years.

She has 9 tattoos in all, all done by Iann at Armageddon. Kristynna works as a Special Needs Educator for kids and acknowledges that the children love her tattoos, and the parents have no issues with them, either. This is good news, because the tattoos she has visible are extremely well-done, and I am looking forward to her sending me shots of the arm that do the piece
justice.

Thanks to Kristynna for sharing her ink with us here on best-tatto-design!