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Rose Tattoo has a lot of different meanings depending on their shape, color, and accompanying design elements. A red rose represents passionate love while a yellow rose stands for friendship. A Rose design focusing on the thorns usually represents jaded love and a bitter reality.

October 2nd, 2009Friendship Rose Tattoo

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Rose Tattoo can be both a masculine and a feminine tattoo. The usual tattoo of roses with red color means romantic love and respect. Other colors of tattooed rose such as yellow and light peach signify friendship.

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Rose Tattoo design is a symbol of beauty and pure love. A tattoo of a rose with prominent thorns reminds us that beauty does not come without sacrifice and that caution must be exercised. The prick of a thorn draw blood meaning love is not without risk; ecstasy does not come without its share of agony.

Rose's sweet tat
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The symbol of a Rose Tattoo depends on the color. A red rose for instance represents life and a blue rose represents spirit. For some, a rose design for a tattoo sometimes symbolizes how fragile, short-lived and superficial love can be though it’s protected by thorns and prickles.

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The rose is a universal symbol of beauty that denotes eagerness and liveliness. Rose Tattoo can either be made into feminine or masculine designs perfect for your back, arm, leg or any part of your body. You can also have a variety of rose designs while adding stems, leaves and thorns to make it more realistic.

June 28th, 2009Rose Tattoo

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Rose Tattoo is a beautiful and popular choice for tattoo design. This tattoo can be a symbol of love, desire, passion and loss. The rose design can be combined with a variety of other design elements such as the flowers, angels, crosses, butterflies or religious subjects to make it truly unique.

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Roses in nature are the most popular and well known of all flower types because of its obvious beauty, shape, scent and vivid coloring. Rose Tattoo can be incorporated with countless design combinations like butterflies, skulls, crosses, heart and ribbons. Also, a rose with bold and tribal elements offers both strong and beautiful tattoos.

May 13th, 2009A Simple Rose Tattoo

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Rose is usually seen as a symbol of femininity while the thorns on a rose are generally a symbol of masculinity.  Rose Tattoo can be big and bold, small and monotone, intricate or simple. Some people use a more striking rose image. For instance, a large, bold red rose growing alongside of a monotone scene.

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The most popular and the oldest flower used for tattoo designs must be the Rose Tattoo. There are some traditional meanings of rose designed tattoos. The red rose for example means courage, love and romance. The pink rose is a symbol of grace and admiration while the white rose means eternal love and innocence. But roses nowadays mean different things for different people. What does this design mean to you?

March 28th, 2009Her Rose Tattoo Design

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The following are the countless ways to have a rose design tattooed on your body: 1) An engagement is signified when two roses are wired together to form single stem 2) A rose without thorns represents love at first sight 3) A thorny rose symbolizes darkness and a reminder that there is no love without a risk 3) A bouquet of roses is a symbol of gratitude 5) Single rose in full bloom is for love and simplicity 6) A crown made roses means virtue or reward 6) A rose with leaves is for hope. What do you think is this woman’s way to design rose tattoo on her arm?


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