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Lucky Symbol Tattoo Inspirations Around The World

How you view luck would I assume depend on how your life is right now. It is easy to say that we are lucky if are living comfortably privileged lives. It is also easy to blame bad luck when things don't go our way. The only thing we can all agree on is that luck is a social construct. It cannot be established through facts that luck exist. Still, it has not dissuaded generations of human to believe or scoff at the idea of luck. Throughout human history, important events have been attributed to luck and therefore symbols have persisted to this day. There are even entire industries built around the concept of luck. Even trying hard bloggers like this one has spent countless hours wracking their brain to write about it. But what does luck have to do with a tattoo blog? Of course, we're going to highlight some tattoo ideas based around symbols of luck all over the world. Now this is by no means an exhaustive list of lucky symbols in different tattoo styles. We simply want to share

10 Tree Tattoo Ideas: Branching Out

Trees can symbolize a lot of things.  Let's list down some of the more popular ones that come to mind: 1.  They are resilient.  So if you are getting a tattoo of a tree to symbolize resilience, don't go squirming and complaining that it hurts. 2.  Long lasting.  Trees can live hundreds of years so some people choose trees as subject for their skin art to symbolize this.  Again. don't go complaining if the process takes a long time. 3.  Trees can grow almost anywhere.  This adaptability is another reason why people want to have trees tattooed. 4.  Trees provide shelter for critters big and small.  This protective nature resonates with plenty of people who gets tattoos. 5.  Trees provide food.  Perfect for the breadwinner type. 6.  Trees symbolizes life.  Only trees can make their own food and that symbolization of life is very popular with tattoo artists. 7.  Trees were worshiped back in the days.  The Celts and Greeks worship oak trees while Scandinavians pref

Rose Drawing Tattoo: Petals and Thorns

The rose has been used as a symbol for centuries.  Usually, this thorny flower has been associated with things like love and beauty.  This popularity is not just true for one region as the whole world basically sees the flower as something beautiful and is therefore associated with good things.  It is therefore no surprise that the rose has also been a favorite subject for tattoo artists. If you are looking for tattoo ideas featuring the beauty of the rose, check out the pics below. Bi-color rose by Andres Acosta of  Red Dagger Tattoo, Houston, Texas Check out Acosta's other works on his Instragram page.   Black and grey realism roses by Logan Bramlett of  Wanderlust Tattoo Society in Akron Ohio Rose in Trash Polka style by David Mushaney at Rebel Muse in Lewisville, TX Amazing Rose by Nancy Fancy Tattoo in Gothenburg Fox and Rose thigh piece as inspired by the story "The Little Prince". Inked by Dave Quiggle at Soul Expressions in Temecula, CA

Wear Your Heart On Your Skin

If you can endure the pain of getting inked, you've got heart.  And if you get a heart tattoo, you've got heart while getting a heart.  Anyway, did you know that the you are more likely to suffer a heart attack during a Monday morning than other days of the week?  Mondays really suck right? With that out of the way, here are some heart tattoos we really like:  Done by Allyson Bennett  Artist unknown  by Dhalsim Kompi  Jason Lawyer creation  John Embry art  Kris Kezar piece  Matteo Pasqualin ink Yann Black masterpiece