Tell the story of your cool tattoos
This Koi tattoo is huge. Koi is also one of the most popular and beautiful Japanese tattoo symbols - a beauty which belies its symbolic meaning. In tattoo imagery, especially in combination with water, it symbolizes courage, the ability to attain high goals and overcoming life’s difficulties.
Totem designs can be found just anywhere and even as a tattoo design. The use of totems identifies the different clans that historically made up the ancient civilizations of the dynasties. Most notably these symbols were associated with animal names and the purpose is to embody the unification, collective pride and aspirations of a clan and its ancestry and guard against clan’s defilement through acts that are considered to be against social and cultural morals such as incestuous behavior.
This calf tattoo is cool. The design seem to have a native Indian influence or tribal and the technique used for this piece is called dot shading.
This lower back tattoo seem to look very sexy since you need to expose more in order to show it off just like in this picture. The tribal design seem to be unclear to what it symbolizes.
I don’t know much about Aztec symbol, so I’m note sure what this Aztec tattoo means. Hit me up in the comments if you do, I’d love to learn! It’s still a nice piece, interesting red and purple coloring without so much detail that it gets muddled.
This tattoo has a good significance because it uses nails and thorns as a design in making the cross which gives a good relationship since during the crucifixion of Jesus, these materials were used when he was hung on the cross.
A dragon tattoo can symbolize a lot of meanings depending on its type. In Japanese culture, the dragon is said to be a symbol of supernatural powers with incredible strength and hidden wisdom. The Chinese dragon has been a symbol of power and mystery. The dragon itself is a free and fearless being. So tattooing of it represents your self being free and fearless with life choices.
A very cool combination of colors for a tattoo. This shoulder tattoo seem to look like a garden with a butterfly roaming around the flowers to do its job.
Here shows what seem to be a traditional way of having a tattoo commonly practiced by tribes a long long time ago as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and impact of tattoos varies in different places and cultures, sometimes with unintended consequences.
