Butterfly Tattoos For Women

Butterfly tattoos are some of the most feminine tattoos out there for women! Butterflies look great on any curvy part of the part. Their gentle flight, delicate colors and beauty bring feminine charm to any tattoo. Also, there are hundreds of types of butterflies for you to choose from when considering a butterfly tattoo.

Upper back butterfly tattoos look great when you focus on quantity and detail. A collection of many well-placed butterflies mid-way in flight looks great as a full back piece. You can even use your shoulder blades as part of the tattoo design and have them flittering around them. For even more flair, use different types of butterflies to add interest to your piece. A collection of blue swallowtail and monarchs is breath-taking with their bright colors and interesting shapes.

Lower back butterflies look great when you use one large butterfly, or several large butterflies flittering to your hip or thigh. If you want just one large tattoo, a large butterfly stretched across your lower back is an excellent choice. The dip in your lower back is perfect for the natural dip of the butterfly's wings. For some uniqueness, add a splash of tribal lines to further enhance the curves of your butterfly.

Less commonly seen are butterfly tattoos that are on your arms and shoulders. Butterflies going around your biceps can be quite lovely. One of the best butterfly tattoos we've seen was a collection of small butterflies flitting about the back and shoulder of a woman in a sleeve 'tat. Once again, the smaller details highlight the natural feminine curves of your body and the butterflies themselves. It also looked great because it showed off her muscles!

Where can you find inspiration for what type of butterfly you want? I suggest looking at a naturalists' guide to butterflies! Remember, you don't want a moth-like butterfly! We're going to go over which species make great tattoos for their fun colors, and which species you should match together.

The two most common butterfly tattoos are the Blue Swallowtail and the Monarch butterflies. The swallowtails have very long wing tips, and are blue and black. The monarchs are orange and have a lot of black. It's a personal favorite of mine to match these two species because their colors contrast so well, and they even live in the same part of the world! So you're naturally correct when you pair them up too.

Another absolutely stunning butterfly is the Red-Spotted Purple butterfly. It has a lot of blue, purple and a little orange. You won't see many tattoos of this gorgeous less well-known butterfly, so you're certain to get lookers.

Another very unique butterfly is the Zebra Longwing Butterfly. This butterfly is very wide and long, with beautiful Zebra-like stripes running horizontally across it. It would make a wonderful lower-back tattoo, and is very curvaceous. Contrasting one of these beauties with a brightly colored Swallowtail would look absolutely delicious for a tattoo!

Another very uncommon butterfly is the Eleuchia Longwing butterfly. This is a solid black butterfly with a beautiful stripe of white along the outer edge of its wing. Close to its body, it has a wonderful splash of bright red that brings out great color and intrigue. This butterfly would also look great with a Red-Spotted purple or Blue Swallowtail.

Nature, Creativity, and Pleasure, Through Butterfly Tattoo Designs

In both United States and in Europe as well as world over, creative tattoo designs have become fashionable. Almost every other person now sports tattoos and latest designs are all the rage.

With this explosion in interest, choice in design has exploded too. You will no longer be limited to few bare designs if you want to get a tattoo on your skin, but offered a huge assortment of designs varied in size and intricacy. Few of the most trendy tattoo designs include tattoo designs based on butterflies, dragons, tribal patterns, henna art, and crucifixes and other religious symbols and themes. In fact complete list will take too long to enumerate.

Among these butterfly tattoo designs have wide appeal. Their eye catching vibrancy and sexual appeal attracts everyone. And butterfly based designs have been around for a longer time, not only in tattoos. You can find innovative butterfly based designs on all sorts of accessories, garments, jewelries, and baggage.

You will be spoiled for choice by the available butterfly tattoo designs. Some of the butterfly tattoo designs are blended with other motifs. For instance most desired butterfly tattoo designs are those that combine tribal patterns and Celtic motifs with butterfly designs. Tribal patterns are derived from traditional Native American and other aboriginal patterns used by various tribes across the globe, such as those in Borneo. Celtic motifs derive from Scotch and Irish clans and tribes. Similarly you will find butterfly tattoo motif combined with fairy motif, carrying forward the long association of butterflies with fairies, who are traditionally represented with butterfly like wings. Other animal designs are also combined with butterfly designs. Given the close association of butterfly with Mother Nature in general and the range of colors that can be used, any other design motif closely associated with nature can be combined with it to great creative effect.

All these butterfly designs have become favorites with both sexes. However it is women who favor the butterfly tattoos the most. In fact butterfly tattoo designs constitute the majority of tattoos women select.

When it comes to availability of colors, butterfly tattoo designs again show wide range. They include traditional two tone designs on one hand and designs with multiple colors on the other.

Butterfly tattoo can be tattooed into any part of skin, though mostly used in arms or shoulders. If you are brave enough to withstand the pain, you may consider the ankle and neck as suitable spots get a butterfly tattoo. Butterfly tattoo can be permanent tattoos or temporary tattoos depending on the wearer's choice.

Because butterfly tattoos can be a form of artistic expression and allow a wider range of original possibilities in color, they form a favorite tattoo design with arty types. You will often see people from world of fashion and other worlds of arts sporting such tattoos.
Sometimes they will go for butterfly tattoos created from body paint instead of permanently burned ones since they allow more colors to design's wings. Such tattoos can be cleared from the skin after some time with minimal effort, either by using water or in some cases by using other cleaning materials like soap or common paint removers. Advantage of such temporary butterfly tattoos is that you gain the ability to display a variety of tattoos.