Thursday, June 17, 2010

Designs Tattoo | Celtic Design Tattoos - Find the Unique Celtic Designs For You


Celtic design tattoos are very popular. You can find those never-ending lines and curves in many designs that are around. How can you make your Celtic design tattoo unique? Your tattoo must be unique to you. Everyone is different. If you make your tattoo design reflect your uniqueness, it will be unique. You don't want to see your tattoo on someone else. I will tell you where to go to find high quality, unique Celtic design tattoos.
Celtic design tattoos are known for their never ending lines used throughout the design. The Celtic knot is a knot that has no beginning or end. These represent everlasting life or the cycle of death and rebirth. Many people believe that our bodies are just temporary and our souls live on, perhaps in another body or definitely in another form.
Celtic design tattoos originated in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. When Christians took over control, the tattoo cultures blended. A popular Celtic design tattoo is the Celtic cross. Many times you will see a Celtic knot around the middle of the cross where the two pieces cross. Originally it's said that the arms of the Celtic cross were equal in size and that they may have been used as compasses. This is how one culture can influence another.
Because Celtic design tattoos are very popular, you want to make sure you get a unique tattoo. Don't go into a tattoo parlor ready to get inked without a design in hand. Look through the books to get an idea of the type of work the artist has done not to pick out a tattoo design. Keep in mind that the tattoos in their books have already been inked on someone. You use these as a guide to see how it might look on real skin.
Another place you can look to see how Celtic design tattoos might look on real skin is on good online tattoo galleries. Some of the best galleries have areas where you can upload pictures of your tattoo and people can comment on them. You can also join forums to talk about finding and creating designs.
An online tattoo gallery, specifically a membership tattoo gallery will allow you access to thousands of designs and you can pick and choose the designs that you want to include in your tattoos. It is best to pick parts of different tattoo designs that you like and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle to design your own tattoo. From a tattoo gallery you can have unlimited downloads of designs so you can print as many different designs as you want and look at them on paper instead of on the computer screen.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Designs Tattoo | 500 Design Tattoo

Many tattoos of the Twentieth Century have been based upon mythological creatures. Unlike the past centuries, the mythology behind many of the subjects of lore have become a lot more fantastic and alluring to people of all ages nowadays. Still, there are those few groups (I usually like to call Bible-pounders) that believe the entire ideas behind tattoos are Satanic and blasphemous. I will always say, "To each his own". That philosophy works with everything for me. Don't like the radio station? Change it! Not interested in what is being played on the television? Turn it off! Don't like tattoos? Don't get one! Geez, is this that difficult?
Have you ever read the true Grimm Fairy Tales? They certainly do not have the Walt Disney "G" ratings on the original versions of the stories! Take the fable of "Snow White." In the Disney ending, she and Prince Charming live happily ever after. However, the wicked stepmother in Grimm's fairy tales was brought before the couple on their wedding day. There - in front of the wedding revelers - it is written that the stepmother was forced to dance in iron shoes - heated upon a blazing fire - until she dropped dead from the ordeal! Hmm, I must have missed that part in the Disney version!
Nevertheless, one can see how the beginnings of one myth or folklore can be changed over the centuries, to adapt to a more "G" rated crowd. The same can be said for certain designed tattoos. From the more arcane skulls and dragons, to the celestial fairies and hearts - the original meanings surrounding many of these designs have become more suitable to the owner of such tattoo art. Did you know that an ankle bracelet tattoo used to ward away the fear of drowning? On the other hand, some Native American tribes would etch markings upon their faces if they were hurting from something. (I.E. Chronic headache sufferers would tattoo their foreheads. Toothache victims would tattoo their cheeks.)
Whatever the reasons may have been, somewhere along the lines, hundreds - if not thousands - of designed tattoos have had their original meanings wiped clean, and were replaced with the more "G" rated idealisms of the Twentieth Century. I have two fairy tattoos, and they both are elegant, beautiful, nude wood nymphs. However, after a bit of research, I found that much fairy lore originated back to Ireland.
Would you ever guess the creatures of Ireland are told to look more troll-like and evil - performing all kinds of mischievousness for the farmers and other landowners within the "fairy" properties? In fact, many natives believe that to anger the fairies could cause even more catastrophic occurrences, such as the burning down of homes, and loss of life to both cattle as well as humans. Okay, the physique of the fairy tattoos that I have etched upon me truly differ, but as far as the mischievousness and the anger issues . . . well, nobody's perfect.