Butterfy Tattoo
Here is a beautiful butterfly tattoo that adorns the back. This butterfly tattoo design creates a gentle cascading effect, or fluttering effect. It is almost like stop motion photography showing one butterfly flying upwards.
Butterfly tattoo designs are very popular with women and are a specialty at tattoo design shops. You will find small butterflies, large butterflies and full-color butterflies. the designs can be very photographic like the ones below, or more graphic and abstract.
Butterflies symbolize transformation and change - or metamorphosis. The butterfly goes through many stages of life, and is different in each stage. Many cultures revere this trait of growth in the butterfly.
Butterflies are just also very damn pretty.
These are monarch butterflies - reknowned and adored for their beautiful deep orange color. There are many different species of buttefly.
Butterflies, second only to dragons, are one of the most popular tattoo subjects today.
For other ideas for your butterfly tattoo try cheking out nature sites to see the wide variety of butterflies in teh world.
photo credit: Shannon Archuleta
