The flower tattoo is and has been popular since the introduction of colored inking and evolved detailing. Much like Zodiac symbols, the flower tattoo has meaning beyond its beauty. The floral tattoo has no gender borders. Flowers as a group represent new birth or tender age by the character of their existence being brightly colored, delicate and short lived. Each realistically inked flower has a meaning although there are many artist created inked flowers.Floral Inking Alone or as an Accent
Flowers or floral tattoos are a versatile component of design that can be a standalone tattoo or part of another design. This is often seen with a skull and roses; however a single rose or group of roses is also another popular tattoo theme. Another might be the broken heart with a single rose passing up through the crack with thorns.
Some Flowers used in Tattoos and their Meaning
The Rose: The rose as a flower is timeless with each color having its own representation. A rose in one of the common few thorn bearing stems and the thorn is representative of pain and hurt.
Red symbolizes love, romance, beauty and Christian representation of cleanliness, new beginning and blood.
Yellow means friendship, missing the person or awaiting the person.
White is representative of purity and innocence.
Pink implies grace, stature and gentility
Black implies death, ending, mourning or disapproval.
The Sunflower is a hearty flower with a short season of growth yet it grows to upward of 6 feet as though stretching to the sun. It is no surprise that the sunflowers symbolizes standing tall, strength or follow your heart or gut feeling when used as a tattoo design. The sunflower is also representative of loyalty or of search of power.
The Lotus flower tattoo means simplicity or being at a state of conscious understanding.
The Lily flower tattoo symbolizes virginity or purity, of the soul of purity and everlasting.
The Cherry Blossom or floral tattoo are originally from Asiatic counties and having meaning that life itself is transient, for this small capsule of time before the next.
The Hibiscus flower or Hawaiian flower symbolizes living in the moment and like the tattoos of the Hawaiian beauty would also mean good life, enjoying life, respecting life and more. The Hibiscus has many meanings as does the rose.
