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samedi 22 mars 2014

Skull And Sugar Skull Shaped Tattoos

By Adrienne Hartsook


Skull tattoo designs arise from the skull tattooing traditions of many religions. They symbolize eternal life or the human remains left behind after its soul leaves for the Christian religion.

Girly skull tattoo designs are a popular choice for females as they gain popularity in recent years. Heart shaped eyes, pink and purple bows and other traditionally female characteristics are mixed in the skull tattoo designs for these cases.

Skull tattoo designs may also be a representation of the overcoming of a great adversity by its wearer. On a similar vein, sugar skull tattoos are frequently associated with the Mexican Day of the Dead. This feast is a celebration of the life of those who have passed on to the next life.

There is always the chance that these tattoos will be open to misinterpretation by other people viewing them. This is regardless of the meaning of the skull tattoo designs to its wearer. To avoid such misinterpretations, there is no recourse for a wearer to take other than the explanation of what these skull tattoo designs mean to him time and again to each and every curious observer of his tattoo.

Sugar skull tattoos have their origin from skulls made out of clay moulded sugar that were used to decorate the gravestones of the dead. These skulls were then decorated with feathers, coloured beads, foils and icing.

When you chose to have a skull tattoo design that is not very recent, you can refer to the works of people long ago. The only disadvantage is you might come across acquaintances that have same tattoo like yours and the advantage of this is the tattooist is already expert in inking the design.

Before, they were usually combined with symbols like dagger, crossbones, flames and rose. Nowadays, anything goes as long as it would look good on one's body or as long as it can deliver the message it wants to portray.




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