Four-Leaf “Lucky” Clover Tattoos

Posted on April 4, 2010
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Four-Leaf Lucky Clover Tattoos If you think about Ireland, what comes to your mind first? Green color, St. Patrick’ day, green beer and, of course, flora symbols of the country – shamrock, as well as four-leaf clover. In fact, shamrock is a tree-leaf clover and has rather a long tradition of symbolic usage starting from the time of druids all the way to Christianity and modern times.

The Emerald isle, Ireland, is often imagined as inhabited by the Leprechauns playing the harp, as the land of hills and dales covered with numerous species of clover. While shamrock can be often seen in fields and meadows, four-leaf clover is an exception, rather than a rule. The chances that you find the latter are estimated to be 10,000 to 1. That’s why it is considered to be a good luck to find it.

Here we see the reason of clover tattoos’ popularity. These tattoos have a large following not only among the Irish, but a lot of people from all over the world resort to clover tattoos. They believe that this will make them lucky whenever they go and whatever they do. Getting this kind of a tattoo can be compared to our childhood experience of searching for a four-leaf clover and eventually finding it!

Like the plant itself, four-leaf clover tattoos incorporate three big leaves with the fourth leaf being smaller than the others. Each leaf of this plant has its own symbolism: the first one stands for hope, the second one – for faith, the third one – for love, and the forth one, as we have already found out, means luck. According to another source, though, the leaves carry the meanings of health, fame, love and wealth, and the rare four-leaf plant promises good luck in these areas.

Four-leaf clover tattoos are Celtic in their origin, and may be as well used to show a person’s Irish descent. It is usually colored green and look cool and neat.

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What are the Most Popular Tattoo Symbols?

Posted on March 31, 2010
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What are the Most Popular Tattoo Symbols? Every one who is ready for a tattoo chooses this or that pattern according to his or her tastes, but not everybody has a unique tattoo. Some tattoo symbols enjoy extreme popularity while the others are not often seen. So, what tattoo patterns are most frequently chosen by people nowadays?

The information is based on general observation, so it may not be the ultimate truth, but it reveals the tendencies. So, the most popular tattoo symbols are hearts, suns, stars and zodiac sighs for both sexes. At the same time women tend to choose flower and butterfly tattoos while men often resort to dragon tattoos or Chinese symbols.

What are the Most Popular Tattoo Symbols?

It’s important for people to have a beautiful tattoo that will successfully fulfill the function of adorning their bodies. The symbolism, the meaning that stands behind each tattoo, is also of extreme importance as pictures can tell much even to illiterate people and pronounce something that cannot be uttered with words.

Heart is on the top of popularity among all the tattoo symbols as it has the meaning of love and passion and relationship between man and woman. And everyone of us have had some experience of love in life. The heart may be as well broken, pierced with an arrow, to symbolize unrequited love or parting.

Though our religion (whatever it is) is not connected with worshipping of the sun, it is still a popular symbol now, in tattoo art as well. The sun stands for power and strength, courage, dignity and lots of positive things, which is connected with the sun’s importance in our life: it gives us light and warms us up. It is also easy to personify the sun in a picture just by adding eyes and a smile.

What are the Most Popular Tattoo Symbols?
The third place among tattoo symbols is occupied by zodiac sign patterns worn by people regardless of whether they deeply believe in astrology or not. They are often the first thing that comes to our mind when we consider getting a tattoo. They are diverse and can tell something about our personality.

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Exploring Fake Tattoo Ideas

Posted on March 29, 2010
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Exploring Fake Tattoo Ideas One cannot have a try and then give up In tattoo art. I mean if you have your skin tattooed, the result of this action will stay with you for a life-long period unless you decide for expensive tattoo removal. But many people would be glad if they could try tats – and get rid of them quickly and easily.

So why not have a fake tattoo? It looks like a real tattoo and draws attention of people around but it doesn’t require pains to get and remove. Such tattoos are temporary and are applied to skin surface only; they are not made with ink and needles so don’t believe anybody who tells you about a non-permanent inkjet tattoo done with a tattoo-machine.

Fake tattoo artists use different methods to transfer a picture to your skin: they can draw it, paint or airbrush it using the variety of media and materials. Even a ballpoint will do – some people created masterpieces with it!

Do you remember the era of chewing gums with tattoo transfers inside? Many children got acquainted with “tattoo art” with their help. It was only necessary to make the transfer wet and apply it to skin. The colors were poor, the image was blurred, but do children need much for happiness? Nowadays the transfers (of course not those in bubble gum) have evolved, look clear and bright and can last up to 5 days.

Another way to create a fake tattoo is airbrush technology which uses stencils and airbrush to paint skin. It is so well-developed now that many people find it difficult to differentiate between the real tat and an airbrush fake tattoo. These tattoos will last for about a week unless you wash them with soap by accident.

You can also look at henna tattoo designs for your fake tattoo, but they have some drawbacks: the “brown-and-white” color scheme only and danger of using so-called “black henna,” which can cause heath problems.

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Yakuza Tattoo Designs

Posted on March 25, 2010
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Yakuza Tattoo Designs The majority of tattoo designs can be worn by everyone and everywhere, but there are some types of tattoos that are typical of some social groups and act as indicators of a particular lifestyle.

Yakuza tattoo designs match this description well. They mark the belonging of a person to Yakuza, perhaps, the largest criminal organization in the world going hand in hand with Italian Mafia in the number of its members. Its beginning goes back to the second decade of the 17th century and it still exists now in a somehow changed form.

The activities of Yakuza are mainly connected with drugs, gambling and extortion of money. It is so powerful that the police are not eager to interfere. But the peculiarity of this organization is that its members come from lower levels of society and take the part of the poor helping those who are nearlyoutcasts of society.

Yakuza Tattoo Designs

Yakuza members used to get lots of tattoos as they marked their strength and courage as well as their desire to underline the distance between them and society with all its norms and rules. Sometimes tattoos, namely rings on the arms, meant the number of crimes committed. That’s why in Japan tattoo art has been for a long time considered an exclusive mark of the criminal world.

Yakuza Tattoo Designs

The peculiarity of the genuine Yakuza tattoo is that it is not done with electric machines. The artists still use the old technology which is painful and requires much time and effort, as well as money. But the result is so impressive that hardly any modern artist can reproduce it.

One of the most wide-spread symbols of Yakuza tattoos is tiger, used as well by samurai in their time. It’s common practice to wear a great many of tattoos that cover large body areas.

Yakuza is a male organization in its essence but Yakuza tattoo can be seen now on both men and women. The latter usually have the ties of blood with the members and get a tattoo to show their interest and devotion.

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