Saturday, August 21, 2010

Butterfly Tattoo Designs Are HotButterfly 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 Butterfly Tattoo DesignsSymbolism 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 Symbolism Butterfly Tattoo Designswhich 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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