Designs of Flower Tattoos

Ah, a beautiful flower. Who doesn’t smile when you see a flower? With tattoos becoming more popular every day, many women are getting flower tattoo designs. If you are looking to find the best flower tattoo design for yourself, let’s first look at what some flowers stand for. Oh, you didn’t know that flowers represent certain emotions and attributes?

Then you best read on!

When choosing a flower tattoo design, you need to know what you are inking on your skin for the all the world to see.

Roses

Roses represent love, but each color represents a different kind of love.

Red Rose
Red roses stand for the most obvious of them all. It means ‘I love you’ in a amorous way. A flower tattoo design of a red rose is often a meaning of love growing, or in remembrance of a loved one who has passed.

White Rose
A white rose means purity and innocence. A white and red rose paired together reflects unity.

Yellow Rose
A yellow rose denotes friendship to either gender.

Lavender Rose
A lavender rose means that you are falling in love.

Pink Rose
A pink rose symbolizes contentment in life.

You just thought flowers were just pretty and didn’t really mean anything! Flower tattoo designs can carry very strong, compelling meanings. You don’t want a rose tattoo? Ok, here are some more flower tattoo design meanings:

Daisy

Daisies are a sign of innocence and are often associated with joy, so they are often connected to a child’s birth.

Lily

Lilies are a symbol of remembrance. They are often entwined with the name of a loved one who has passed.

Sunflower

Sunflowers can represent the love of sun or God. They can also symbolize the sun and the life it gives.

Jasmine

Jasmine flowers also symbolize love, especially in the Indian society. But apposed to roses, jasmine flowers are smelled from a great distance, representing the fact that even if you are far away from your lover, the love is still very deep and strong.

Lotus

Lotus flowers are a very strong sign of a person’s spirituality and growth. A lotus starts as a small tuber in the mud at the bottom of a river. As they grow, they have to struggle to reach the surface as they seek out the sun. In the Buddhist and Hindu religions, the locus represents the souls’ journey towards enlightenment.

A flower tattoo design can be as simple as a single flower, which is what most woman start with. But keep in mind that you can always embellish that flower with more, or add birds, vines, and butterflies.

Flowers are timeless. What more wonderful means to express yourself than with a flower tattoo design!

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